Good Eats S3E8P2: The Case For Butter

Alton takes it upon himself to defend butter in the World Food Court, where it is accused of being unhealthy and picking up off flavors.

Recipes featured in this episode:
- Raymond Beurre Blanc
- Compound Butter
- Honey Butter.

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[dumboe8899]

Margarine's like um, two chemical reactions away from rubber. Really.

Gross.

[stdrange]

Cream in beurre blanc?? AB drives french chefs everywhere insane

[loschain]

i just realized it took him 11 seasons to do parkerhouse rolls 7:25

[loschain]

thats not dr johnson thats the camera man

[PoisonedV]

Glad there are other people pointing out how stupid the top comment is, about margarine being two reactions away from rubber.

[SimuLord]

Julia Child lived past ninety eating plenty of butter. Margarine will kill you quick, though, with all that trans fat (even the margarine that advertises that it's "trans fat free" still has chemical chains and reactions that the human body wasn't intended to properly digest, as opposed to the natural triglycerides in butter.)

[kiminokami]

@Gixugif Exactly.  The definition of "chemical reaction" includes a change in properties.

[Gixugif]

@dumboe8899 Even if that's true, that doesn't mean it's anything like rubber. Two chemical reactions away means it's not rubber. At all.

[aznelf13]

@stdrange well cream is just butter with buttermilk, and since he is making the butter back into a sauce, it's like serving cream with more fat.

[AdIgnorantiam]

@stdrange I think what would drive French chefs more insane are people who don't know what they're talking about.... like you for example, who don't know that there is a type of beurre blanc with cream called beurre nantais.

[trlkly]

@stdrange He really does focus on making everything easy. Maybe not Rachel Ray easy, but still fairly foolproof.