Good Eats S12E11 Ginger: Rise of the Rhizome (2/2)

[ThePolysyllabist]

A trick with fermented ginger ale : Squeeze out the air after pouring a glass and you'll need never worry about an explosive buildup of pressure before you come back fro the next glass.

[yolo22]

omg the cookie jumped out of the oven!! ROFL.

i love AB

[Jcolinsol]

I like "Reed's Ginger Ale". Actually "Reed's Elixer" cured my psoriatic arthritis.

[trumbachd1]

1 person needs to be boiled and fermented.

[trumbachd1]

wonder if you could replace the Ginger in the Ginger beer with other seasonings like pie or cake spice, etc?

[BlueRoses33]

I tried making the cookies, they turned out delicious!

[BlueRoses33]

The way he laughs is hilarious -- just like he did at the end of the waffle show.

[bonkuraysan]

instead of opening it so many times, you can (after the first glass full) squeeze the bottle so it looks as if you sucked some air out. in a day or so when you normally open it it will have just refilled with the carbon, not to bursting point but instead to the regular point.

[defyingravitythruHim]

Ginger grater... a unitasker?!

[TimTheReaper]

@defyingravitythruHim check out his garlic episode. you can use it to grate garlic too ^_^

[ZOODUDE100]

why didn't he add any of the reserved candie ginger sugar.

He said its good in cookies.

[bonkuraysan]

@ZOODUDE100 he did. notice he said if you did it would look like this, then shows you the other batch

[PeninsulaBoy217]

Hahaha the gingerbread man got hit by a car. XD

[MDIS]

In this series , alton brown seems pudgy but he has now lost a whole lot of weight , he himself said that he fired the producer and cameramen. lol.

[some5672]

I did the exact same method as him with the ginger ale, except i used limes, and it tasted and smelled alcoholic in less than 24 hours, what's up?

[SurvivingOklahoma]

@some5672 You're smelling the fermentation. The yeast slightly ferments the drink while it carbonates it. Even in Alton's recipe there is a very little amount of alcohol, but very minuscule to alcoholic beverages like beer of wine. If you want it to be less fermented, ferment it in the fridge or just ferment it shorter than you did. I hope that helps! :o)

[arnolddrummer]

hey 8:39 is the coconut from the island episode of good eats

[Prizz1989]

too bad im alergic to ginger

[BlackWolfessUSCM]

Is gingery a word O.o; "The Alton Brown International Dictionary" :D

[halfacig]

8:42 COCO! I thought you were dead?

[GrenMoyo]

is the beer alcholic or is it non-alcoholic.

[PhallusOfMalice]

yes.

[HinataYuri]

poor ginger man, at the end he was trying to reach the gingerale in the bottle attached to his arm. but unfortunately, before he can get to it, he is chased by alton brown, THE GOOD EATS MAN!!!!!

[newbsauce94]

well that flavor was certainley disarming lmao!!!!

[Aninoag]

'run run, fast as you can!

you can't catch me

cause i'm the gingerbread man!'

haha, reminds me of kindergarten,

when the class made a gingerbread man after reading the story.

i think the teachers ate it, but they told us it ran away.

alton's got run over though. haha.

[Hanuhtim]

I love it when the cookie jumps out of the oven. Alton is hilarious!

[obamamama0185]

Come back here, you naughty little cookie!

[Lisanab]

omg the gingerbread guy getting hit by a car cry-cry!!!

[JungleINC4life]

Rofl...that was the best part. I love the Disarming comment afterwards lmao

[BlackWolfessUSCM]

Ginger's been a huge part of my upbringing, I tend to put it in about everything I make, well with the exception of sushi that is.

[HinataYuri]

well, you'll have pickled ginger as well, right. the pink ginger served with the dushi makes a great side dish.

[recoil53]

I think the ginger soda needs more ginger. I might make it with the ginger pulp (which still has much flavor after steeping) in it.

The bubbles are small and not as numerous as store bought soda.

It is dry for a soda. Honey might taste better. Some recipes I have found use brown sugar.

[buahdurian]

Cute ginger cookie!!!

[zboishcha]

At 8:45 COCO!!!

[kaiseryuki15]

a ginger grater is also used to grate radish in Japan, and it can also be used to grate other food so it isn't a unitasker

[zboishcha]

there's gonna be an orange episode, a molasses episode, and a Brussels sprout episode coming up soon.

[knowsfords]

He ate the arm off of the ground!

[zboishcha]

Not wanting to sound like a negative person, but what else can that ginger grater do?

[xFireHeavenx]

I've seen people use something like that for fresh wasabi. I imagine anything you'd use a sharkskin grater for you could use for that.

[blix797]

Yeah, that looks like a unitasker to me, and we all know there's only room for 1 unitasker in AB's kitchen. *pan to fire extinguisher*

[zboishcha]

That's true, but a fire extinguisher isn't a unitasker. If handled correctly, it can also be used to crush garlic.

[vagrantsoul32]

LOL

[grimdreaper]

Ginger Ale is delicious and no Main Stream soft drink will ever come close!

[xFireHeavenx]

LOL OMG. I lost it with the shaping of the mini-gingerbread man and him chasing the little one out!

[gcdrummer02]

so how would I go about making that ginger ale into ginger beer?

[mattburien]

ginger ale and ginger beer are basicly the same thing id like to know if it could be made alcoholic?

[64blackbird92]

Of course.

I wouldn't use a plastic bottle for that, though. A carboy with an airlock to let the gas escape should do nicely.

[starian1234]

laboratory pulverizers are indeed loud, with one running you can barely hear someone standing directly next to you

[pzshi]

Yes ginger ale the best soft drink invented!!!! Next to Root Beer

[igray2020]

Gingerbread man is the best character yet! I loved the way the little gingerbread man jumped out of the oven! Shame he had no road sense though!!!

[stripesthebird]

Did anyone eles hear someone say "kitchen" at about 7:25, or am I going insane?

[Khadgar34]

I don't have a watermark. It was an error caused by improperly cutting out the commercials.

[zboishcha]

yeah

[Zilege]

Lol hey you're right it did say kitchen. That was probably intentional though. =P

[dxfan212]

UNITASKER!!!FLAMEFLAMEFLAME

[ANewDay2007]

The gingerbread man was too cute! And I love the way Alton put him together!

[gcdrummer02]

a ginger-domo would have been funnier.

[mewmewerica]

mmmmm yumm XD

[zikpan89]

i dont know why every one gave you a thumbs down on you comment but i did too gest to let you know

[flickeries]

A club of ginger cookies! D: Where r the application forms!?

[zboishcha]

"I gave him life, but he betrayed me. Now all I have left of him is good eats"

[gcdrummer02]

You can peel fresh ginger, and use his fruit drying process to dry your own ginger. Make sure you use a mandolin or something to slice it thin though.

[QingTien]

You can use a nutmeg grater to grate ginger as well, just as good~

[khesed]

That was so wrong D:

[inezhosy]

Wow, AB's got a traditional Chinese herbal medicine cabinet! Those cabinets are kinds rare these days, since alot of them are replaced by metal cabinets that dispense packets of powdered herbs.

As for the ginger-grater, you could use it to grind horseradish.

[oldsoulyoungbody]

great episode, I noticed the "unitasker" as well, but remember, up until later episodes the bundt pan was still considered a unitasker...and now it isn't. So use ur imagination, maybe a backscratcher for your pet hamster?

[mdhofstee]

its evil coca hehe

[timmyg316]

Ginger-Grater....Unitasker?

[MrOlafdotcom]

I thought I was the only one to notice that! Also, a laboratory pulverizer? whats wrong with a coffee grinder! :-)

[Luminasita]

True, but I'm glad he added ginger ale at the end. Has anyone tried it yet?

~Kat

[TrowaRF]

I haven't tried the ginger ale yet, but I will. Not sure when, though.

[TourDeRy]

I've made it recently, it has plenty of zest and bubbles, but can be a little on the dry side. I'm looking to add AB's pomegranate syrup to the finished ginger ale in a glass.

[tigereye1964]

Do you think fresh mint would taste good mixed with the ginger ale recipe?

[TourDeRy]

Mint could be a good addition. Try muddling a few pieces of mint with some sugar in the bottom of a glass and top with ginger ale.

[recoil53]

I just made the ginger syrup and bottled it up, without the lemon juice. I'll be back in two days.

However, if you make the syrup, it is plenty strong to mix into other things like seltzer or club soda. After all, that syrup was half a cup of water plus flavorings mixed into seven cups of water.

[TrowaRF]

The problem with a coffee grinder is that the name doesn't sound near as cool as "laboratory pulverizer".

[xXxAxBxZxXx]

he would probably find something eles to use it for

[alathepriest]

since ginger is fiberous then i suppose the ginger grater would work on other lighter fiberous foods. not sure what else that includes but im sure AB wouldn't have it as a unitasker. glad to see a new episode, favorite show ever

[DarkSoldier712]

Not necessarily. I was thinking maybe it could be used in place of a shark-skin grater for wasabi?

[Shin2114]

How about using it to get the zest off of lemons and other citrus? Buddha's Hand would be a lot easier to zest on that thing.

[ToesAreAxxome]

Yay! New Good Eats! :D