Good Eats S7E2P2: Q

[Gool349]

that all is nothing without creme fraiche

[kronchev]

Where did he find these pots? Home Depot doesn't have anything close to useful.

[Bizarro91]

@kronchev Go to Home Depot's website and type Norcal 10035 or Norcal 10040.

[prettycreaturesKY]

@lamoyoucooke

Charcoal as in manufactured charcoal briquettes. He didn't "invent" it so much as popularize it, using leftover sawdust from his factories to make the briquettes. That's where the KingsFORD charcoal brand came from.

[lamoyoucooke]

Henry Ford invented charcoal in the 1920's?? Where the hell did those researchers get their information! Never mind charcoal being used by artists in Europe in mediaeval times or the Renaissance, the Chinese invented it centuries ago as it's a main component of gunpowder! Which the Chinese actually invented by the way - not Henry Ford in the 1920's in case you wondered.....

[ConnecticutProd]

CERAMIC SMOKER TO THE DICCKK!!

[MrBecerra1982]

Does anyone know where to get or what kind of hot plate it is he uses in this video? I cannot find one small enough to fit inside the pot anywhere.

[dothedre]

@MrBecerra1982 I think you can get a used one from a thrift store or camping equipment store.

[grumman581]

True BBQ is not pork, it's beef -- beef brisket to be precise. Just ask any Texan... BBQ is a religion in Texas -- complete with animal sacrifices and everything. I'm sure it was some sort of Yankee idea to try to BBQ pork.

[Ozzman1369]

@grumman581 i sincerely hope youre just trying to kick up an argument for the sake of discussion and not just being an idiot. texas is really the only state where barbecue means beef for one. secondly most origin stories of barbecue come from the american southeast and carribean where various european settlers, popularly french, noted natives digging a pit to smoke an entire animal, usually a pig. these all date back to way before texas was even an idea in anyways mind.

[grumman581]

@Ozzman1369 HERESY !!! Next thing you're going to try to con us with is trying to tell us that it's possible to do BBQ without beer being involved!

[Ozzman1369]

@grumman581 hahaha now THAT would be heresy! nope you definitely need the beer. dont get me wrong i LOVE beef barbecue, especially brisket. just thought id bring history into the matter

[grumman581]

@Ozzman1369 History be damned! We're talking about RELIGION here, facts have no place in this discussion! BBQ was invented in Texas. It's out national religion. Complete with animal sacrifices and the anointing with oils (and spices). Luckily, our national religion is better than our national beer (Lone Star).

[Ozzman1369]

@grumman581 haha if we're talking religion then its just a big mess! to sauce or not to sauce? is it just smoke or should there be spice? pork or beef?! lager or ale??

[wtbrowni]

has anyone made this smoker? and how long does it last

[MaxxTheMerciless]

@wtbrowni I've made three of these smokers. They work pretty well and they last fairly long if you take good care of it, meaning you don't leave it out in the elements all the time. They are cheaper than the $500 you would otherwise spend on a manufactured ceramic smoker.

However, I wouldn't smoke fish in this. Fish needs a lighter touch than this smoker would ordinarily dish out. There's another episode where Alton smokes salmon in a cardboard box.

[mindy5231]

giggle- he brined his butt:)



[MordvsTheWorld]

Alton Brown the Science Chef. ^^

[respectbluder]

3 people should get there ass kicked by chuck noris

[kaishu256]

Alton Brown is a god. He's like the Bill Nye of food.

[PicklesParodyPalace]

God sent alton brown to earth to teach us about God's culinary creations

[wurstpeter1000]

Fuck yeah!! love South Park

[zhaneranger]

ok? ok bye

[keljackson]

3 people don't know how to cook

[marlin187]

Alton is my favorite chef of all time.And I am also a chef.

[reallyocean]

If the purpose of a brine is to keep moisture in, would I need to brine my pork if I were to use a crock pot instead of a smoker? I'm also trying to imitate the otherwise lost smokey flavor using Liquid Smoke as well as smoked paprika and chili powder instead of the smokeless versions of them. (I would also be adding salt to the rub to replace the salt in the brine.)

[DigitalCola]

@reallyocean No, though while that's all good in theory the essence of the bbq is gonna be lost, but it'll still be good

[reallyocean]

@DigitalCola Thanks for the reply. I made this this weekend and it turned out well. I would say that there wasn't as much smokey flavor as there would be had I smoked it in a real smoker, and the classic 'bbq outer crust' on the meat also wasn't there but other than that it turned out well. Mostly, it just tasted like pulled pork without the smoke and with Paprika. Not terrible if you don't own a smoker but next time I think I'm going to build myself a good 'ol AB smoker.

[tatecheddar]

I'm so going to the store tomorrow to buy everything to build that smoker! Alton Brown is a freakin genius!

[an50331]

@tatecheddar how did it go?

[trumbachd1]

Goof Eats Fan Page Says that the next new episode will be the first week of October.

The reason for the Hiatus was that AB was filming a new National Travel show for Food Network.

[trumbachd1]

@trumbachd1 the next episodeon oct. 7th will be Fry Hard 3 (Tempura)

then Oat Cuisine 3, then All Hallows Eats.

Again, according to GEFP

[swmoony]

the man is a great teacher and keeps ya interested!!

[theguysontheweb]

Built mine under $20, love it Alton!

[omnipc]

What specific brands and models of hot plate do you all find work best? Mine is really bad and keeps cutting off during cooking so I need to get a good new one!

[thenosis]

You are awesome. You explain everything in depth where most others would just leave it in a basic description. Thank you!!!

[Antiks72]

You can get a charcoal smoker for 80 bucks at Lowes. 

[xkirahatesyoux]

Oh man, he said "sammich." :DDDDDDDDD

[mpgorilla66]

I'm trying this out for my next Superbowl party.

[msSookiestackhouse]

"squirting and dipping...."

[damien666666666666]

Great Job! Tells it all!

[robin2660]

Henry Ford invented charcoal! Ha-ha-ha-ha! What an idjut. He might've invented modern charcoal briquettes, but he didn't invent charcoal.

[westkan]

@robin2660 Ya mean I wasn't the only one to notice that oversight by AB's editors? Appears that Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer invented the charcoal briquette, Ford just seen that as a way to make money from what otherwise was waste.

[makersmrk]

@luke= As you probably know Atlon films the show Atlanta. That grate is not from a kettle grill like he says. Its a "grill extenter" for a Big Green Egg. There home office is in Atlanta and thats prob where he got it. But you can order on line. The is is around the 18inch you will find for weber kettles- and you can "extend" your regular 22 inc grate with the one shown.

[lukerluke1]

Just wondering...where do you find a grill that small?? I have tried the usual places, but no dice! Any ideas??

[jaxxboss]

hhmmmmmm, just finished maing another one of these. In the oven now in heavy duty foil @ 300, will be ready just in time for the big game.

hmmmmmmmm. this will be my 20th one Ive done and not one problem with anything.

[robojessus]

HAHAHA sammich

[HaywoodUdume]

Looked pretty difficult to pull that pork. My 'que just falls apart. I guess 12-14 hours will do that? 190* is the ideal temp - hot enough to melt all the fat and connective tissue!

[mrmojorisin60]

My cut still has a lot of skin on it, should I remove it or leave it as is?

[Oplem]

I made one of these and it was only good for about half a dozen runs before running into issues of wires shorting out and sheathing breaking down. It's fun and cheap and works beautifully, but you will be replacing wires frequently if you use it often.

[samuraigraffix]

what do you suggest in that case for an inexpensive smoker??

cuz i wanted to try it for the fun factor but i would like it to last

[PraiseDivineMercy]

@Oplem Maybe you just need a better quality hot plate?

[Cpryd001]

He has such a quirky personality that I love it!

[nagaempress]

How can you make sure that there are no harmful chemicals in the Terracotta? Now a days with everyone spraying things down with stuff Im just wondering :) I would think if there were then it would get into the meat.

Thanks!

[ratpat]

Its earthenware, clay based, a naturally occurring material. Terracotta, by its nature is an unglazed ceramic, which helps make it cheap. if it was glazed or sprayed it would be labeled.

[kuyarick]

uranium's a naturally occurring material also, so what?

[HWMBOman]

@kuyarick

Yeah, go ahead. Build one out of uranium......(knucklehead!)

[jennyzandstra]

God Bless you, Alton Brown.

[jaxxboss]

Ford did invnet charcoal. You can invent it or discover it. He invented his.

Whats that you msay? You cannot invent something after it has already been "discovered" ?

tell that to the astroturf people,

the morton salt people,

and the wright bros.. Im pretty sure things were flying way before they built an airplane.

lol

[loperspest]

People were using charcoal for smelting iron and other materials millennia before Henry Ford was even a sperm in his fathers gonads, or an egg in his mothers ovary and for cooking just as long. We now use coke, processed coal, for the former, but we still use charcoal for the latter.

[Alavashus]

they weren't using charcoal(man-made, partially burned hard wood), they were using coal(a naturally occurring fossil fuel composed of prehistoric, fossilized plant matter).

[loperspest]

I did some extra research and Mr. Ford did invent a method of MASS PRODUCING charcoal. But the profession of charcoal burner has a long, and dirty, history, much older then Mr. Ford. And before coke was invented, it was used for smelting.

weyriver*co*uk/theriver/indust­ry_6_charcoal*htm

w w w *regia*org/charcoal*htm

(Remove spaces and replace asterisks with periods after copying into the address bar)

[mburgh]

Ford invented charcoal briquets, sawdust compressed, like the briquets you buy at the store,

[jaxxboss]

Well, since you wanna get technical, Ford didnt invent anything as he is only 3 years old(my neighbor timmy Ford).

Ford invented a "thing" and called it charcoal. Who the heck are you to say he cant call it charcoal? You're not the boss of words!!

I case my rest!!! No bout a doubt it!

[westkan]

No; Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer invented the charcoal briquette , Not Henry Ford. Ford just had plenty of the raw material required to make them. Wood Waste in the day car bodies where built on a wooden frame.

[birdwingsvids]

Henry Ford invented the charcoal bricked not the charcoal it self.

[birdwingsvids]

He made made charcoal by pressing the leftover material from Ford's assembly plant. Later the company KINGSFORD was founded.

[dreadwaste]

@paperchasin23 if its any consolation, i think it takes a man to admit he's a pussy. hehe.

[icepickmeetstemple]

Henry Ford invented charcoal?

I don't think so....pretty sure charcoal has been around for centuries. Woodcutters used make charcoal as an extra income source.

[icepickmeetstemple]

Doh.

Noticed the comment below after I posted.

Well, ditto.

[PeterPechacek]

Henry Ford did invent charcoal briquettes, mother nature invented charcoal since its just burnt wood

[roaminGMADNESS]

He's referring to mass production.

[Ixtheemperor420]

'Henry Ford invented charcoal in the early 1920's'

He most assuredly did not, charcoal has been around since people started burning wood incompletely. Charcoal BRIQUETTES are are credited as Ford's invention, co-invented by my man Edison, but people really need to look for historical accuracy before taking something as fact.

[skraprm]

I'd be more concerned as to the source of the trivia tidbit on human flesh.

[Ixtheemperor420]

How so? What do you mean?

[kwanyoung2]

After he pulls the pork, you'll see the tidbit about human flesh.

[skraprm]

Just that if you want to debate the truth of a statement, the human flesh bit is way juicer.

[Ixtheemperor420]

What is the specific time of the human flesh bit? I watched this several times and didn't see it.

[Ixtheemperor420]

Ahh thanks. I'm not well versed on the origins of cannibalism but logically that tidbit makes some sense.

[Ixtheemperor420]

I was talking about the charcoal briquettes bit, not the human flesh bit.

[westkan]

LOL look up Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer for historical accuracy.

[jaxxboss]

Where do you find the lid? At first I thought the lid was for the planter bottom (saucer) to sit on and it was just used as a top, but the bottoms I see in the Lowes stores are all small and no way can be used as a lid.

Whats the deal?

[xFireHeavenx]

I believe both of them are just pots...each having the same size lip.

[z4rkenny]

alton brown is awesome

[MargeeJ]

Great video! I'm trying this for my Superbowl party since today it's up to 40 instead of the usual 20 degrees! Will probably finish it in the oven. Will keep u posted on how it turns out! p.s. Thanks for the applewood advice, I started with hickory not knowing, going to change the wood right now! :)

[pedicabdr1ver]

i thought in "where there's smoke, there's fish" episode he said not to use chunks and to always go with sawdust?

[areyoureally123]

See 4:28

[khesed]

There he goes again saying SAMMICH.

[K4hl4n4mnell]

Local slang. I know someone from Rhode Island who says the same. :p

[z4rkenny]

ooooh where does he say sammich :P

[quickfingers66]

lumberjacking is not a verb T_T

[Alex052480]

HE DID ALL OF THAT FOR JUST A SANDWICH??

[berighteous]

it's worth it. I'm making pork butt for thanksgiving!

[dj44ups]

how long do you smoke it for. just learning to do that.

[cocoacorin]

Did he say sammich?

[Eggness]

HELL YEAH

[GreenManalichi]

Hes not using the same smoker tha he built in part 1...what gives?

[GreenManalichi]

never mind...jumped the gun DOH!!!

[MrNgMichael]

the box cant hold the pork probally

[expotv]

nice

[LadyAkitsu]

XD Alton's in an Airstream! I didn't notice that until about midway. Airstream FTW!

[ConstructionMadness]

what is the wood that he is using to smoke the meat

[lordmenetti]

hickory pretty sure

[madman8199]

It's usually hickory for pork butt, at least in the classic pulled pork region I'm familiar with--eastern NC. He's from Georgia, so it's hard to be sure.

[cocoacorin]

I'm from east of Raleigh so is there any other kind of wood to cook BBQ in other than hickory?

[RenderMan50]

There's lots, but oak and fruitwoods like apple complement pork quite well. Hickory can be too strong by itself so use oak and/or apple in a 2:1 ration with hickory.

[cocoacorin]

Ooh Applewood talk about perfection. Anybody ever cooked pork with plums?

[tylergenis]

i dont get how some shows like south park are taken down cause of copywrite and others like these arent

[NoirMusic]

It's all about the producer. I don't think they are trying to sell DVDs of good eats.

[ebwarg]

ACtually, they *do* sell Good Eats DVDs. Maybe they figure watching these eps will introduce people to the show so they'll buy the DVDs. It worked for me!

[NoirMusic]

About time they put it out....they didn't for a long, long time...

[dsm4gsus]

Did he just say, "Samich" @ 9:42? That's awesome

[bakaro152]

Oh my god he did (lolol)

[jacobgeddes]

i think alton is a little gay

[Supnitle]

I think you're VERY gay.

[LuminaryGames]

Seconded. Just because a guy isn't a hopeless idiot doesn't mean he plays for the other team. Its unfair and stupid. Plus he has a wife, he was a commercial director before he changed careers and went to culinary school and then made Good Eats.

[madman8199]

You forgot the kid, LG.  Alton has a daughter as well.

[dude846]

really, does it matter if he's gay or not? I like this show. Cooking, science, and a little bit of comical relief. Not to mention he doesn't try to make these huge types of food that look good but aren't practical.

[Supnitle]

"Oh, you say you wanted chopped pork? Ooookay!"

*Brings out axe*

XD

[Chipdip25]

dude he just went macgeyver on the subject

[aem0917]

"Yes it's gonna work!" 

I adore AB.

[zeldarooles]

I was half expecting there to be a cheezy blow-up animation....

[xxBloodRedSandmanxx]

How can you half expect something?

[Brassherald]

it's a turn of phrase

[beckster02]

How do you turn a phrase?

[Luminasita]

*giggles* -4 hours at the end.

And also, human flesh, EWW.

~Kat

[MartinsBrew]

Only thing thats bad.. It takes 4+ hours to smoke anything... You need to add smoke chips about every 30 mins... How can you replace the smoke chips with out opening the whole clay smoker? But it works...

[Cofaidh]

Well, if you happen to have the equipment for cutting ceramic you could cut a rectangular opening in the side of the base of the apparatus and then add a metal door through which you could remove the pie plate and add more wood.

Speaking for myself though, can't do that.

[MartinsBrew]

True, but sound like to much work in the frist place. But a metal smoker with a good colth on top does just find...

[QuaA]

The ceramic is a good idea--it's so insulated that a hot plate can keep the temperature up ~200. Though, if I were gonna put holes in the thing, maybe a couple on the lid to make getting it off a little easier..

[ramspede]

I made one and used rope through some holes on the side of the cover for handles.

[MartinsBrew]

Very true but thats not a mover.. But I bet it would work great just dont plan on moving it..

[raven1234]

human flesh 0-0

[RainOnTheWindow]

"Hey! Where are you going with my-?"

XDD. Excellent as always LTH.