Good Eats S2E6P1: Crust Never Sleeps

[lilacfunk]

I love that AB explains cooking scientifically. He's a wunderkind for pedants in the kitchen like me.

[foodparadisetv]

Love your vid! Look at you. That's really amazing! Let's stay in touch. Let's stay in touch! Check me out sometimes too!

[sjsawyer]

"Well pick one for us Goldilocks" lol Alton Brown's the man

[walpoly]

Odd. I don't find W nearly as sexy when she's being nice.

[VineFynn]

lolz at his dinosaur squirt bottle

[RainOnTheWindow]

My favorite part of this episode is still the 'biscuit that snaps' joke. =3

[hebamou]

lol at Tenderflake then. They make really good crusts though.

[Quinxcunz]

Maybe I will contact my Liaison in Europe and find the true method of making pie dough,and of course I will tell no one the true recipe

[defloweredmind]

@Quinxcunz Your pretentious attempt to elevate yourself is PATHETIC lol

[Yonkage]

Does anyone who's seen this episode read/watch Naruto? Because I'm reminded of the grandpa/grandma toads Jiraiya stuck to his shoulders... it's kinda funny, and more than a little oddly coincidental.

[silvr90210]

@Yonkage lol i read and watch

[fitasc9]

What episode did AB do the lattice top pie crust?

[chevy9015]

"Kinda Blue"- Blueberry pie

[fitasc9]

Thanks chevy

[ss74656]

AB made a lattice top pie crust in the blueberry episode (Kinda Blue)

[EtherealZephyr]

Ha, my US History teacher has that tender puppet! I was so excited when I found it in the back of his classroom. :)

[loschain]

i want the punching dolls!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[koggi242]

is the tender pupper Margaret Thatcher?

[mdhofstee]

the pie he showed at the start looked like pacman on its side hehe.

[memory627]

wakka wakka wakka

[rayandkerri]

At most grocery stores, they should be rotating their stock, so if you want the freshest anything, get it from the back, but be sure to check the dates to be sure another customer didn't shove some old stuff back there out of their way. It works for meats, dairy, canned goods, almost everything needs to be rotated. Remember, the freshest is at the back of the line...

[thedankshow]

exactly what i was looking for.

now a blueberry pie.

[plasmagic]

i wonder wats the model for that processor

[obamamama0185]

Haha W looks inches away from an EPIC aneurism!

[MahBoi3579]

lol at W's book "Dealing With People You Can't Stand"

[ushoveit]

Why unsalted butter? Why not lessen the addition of salt later?

[AnruiK]

Bakers tend to go for unsalted butter because you can't measure how much salt is in the butter. It makes it difficult to control how salty the end product is if you can't tell how salty the butter is.

If you can stand it, though, you could just lessen the amount of salt you put later. It's more a personal preference thing, I think.

[ruready37]

thats the perfect answer

[hshadow86]

Yeah it is. : >

[MissMoodyMoony]

@AnruiK The salt in salted butter also changes the water content which throws off the balance in baking.

[honeybadger81]

@AnruiK

Unsalted butter has to be of the highest quality. Salt is added to cover any off-flavors or imperfections in lesser quality butterfat. You're much better off just adding salt to unsalted butter.

[ukgirl1972]

What is up with those puppets? o_o

[narcissiste84]

WAIT!!! you're telling me you can use a digial scale for COOKING??!!

[636lover]

Yeah in culinary school they tell you that measuring by weight is more accurate and consistent for ingredients like sugar, flour, eggs etc. Just now i measured out 1 cup of flour (should = 8 oz.) but when i weighed it, it was slightly under that.

[dianebl1]

you're thinking fluid ounces - a cup is about 8 ounces by volume. But a cup of flour should actually weigh 5 oz - if it weighs more, you are compacting your flour as you scoop

[636lover]

Yes, that's exactly what i was saying. That measuring ingredients by WEIGHT is more accurate because 5oz is 5oz. Using conversions from cups to oz's a cup of anything SHOULD weigh 8 oz. but it changes when a subjects structure comes into play. Reminds me of the childhood riddle, "Which weighs more, a TON of bricks or a TON of feathers?" :)

[dianebl1]

Almost - A cup of anything does NOT weigh 8 0z. You are mixing volume and weight. A Cup is a volume measure. A cup of feathers (a volume measure) will only weigh a fraction of an ounce (a weight measure). So, if you are making pastry, and want to measure your flour by weight, use 5 oz of flour per cup the recipe calls for.

[636lover]

Don't know why this is such a sticking point w/ you and i'm not trying to be rude :) but ANY conversion chart will say 1cup= 8oz LIQUID. It's a universally accepted way of converting LIQUID measurements to their equal weight measurement. 1cup water=8oz GOOGLE IT 1pint=1pound. BUT as i said b4 if you're measuring FLOUR by standards meant for LIQUIDS it won't be the same. If the recipe calls for CUPS of a DRY ingr. u use CUPS don't convert or you'll throw it off. i swear we're actually agreeing :)

[bri117]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

you lost me at digital scale

[hamsterlover0220]

yup it is the guy controling the flaky and tender puppets

[superluigi22]

Watch on the right side of the screen at 9:42, you see something blue... I think it's the man behind the F and T puppets.

[smittywerbenjegerman]

that's some funny shit

[sh97]

I'm going to try this pie dough recipe without the food processor (don't have one- yet).

[cool1524]

lol the food processor lid fell on her hands