Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 28: The Blade’s The Thing
This week I tell you I am NOT suffering from aichmomania, there will be bad puns, a whole lot about knives and which end is the ouchy bit. Oh and we will make some really great salsa.
0:00 – Alton Brown Cuts Food (Knives!)
10:15 – Making Salsa
31:45 – Cleaning & Care (Knives!)
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Tamato shark. You need a tomato shark. They work far better than your runcible spoon.
I just whack the garlic with my hand. No tool needed. No knife slipping
I love the content, and this might be just be a personal gripe with the cinematography that nobody else cares about, but I feel that Altons talking head shots are way too zoomed in. Feels a bit claustrophobic and feels disconnected since you can't see what he is doing with his hands.. A medium shot or a medium close up would feel better than a full close up. It might just might be a stylistic choice but I thought I'd mention it if there are others that feel the same way.
😅 NOSIS: No sharps in the sink!
Thank you so much! I’ve learned a lot and now I need to go look for a good cutting board and sharpen my knives!
Edge restoration is something I learned at an early age because my family couldn't afford professional sharpening, and I wasn't going to put up with knives that were dull. (We won't go into the "discussions" of "that's not a knife, it's a saw.") I still have my father's butcher knife that was made by my grandfather from a piece of scrapped industrial bandsaw blade back in the WW1 era. I really need to replace the scales on it.
I always hated the knives "out" on a magnetic strip but what about a magnetic strip with light cabinet doors covering the strip?
I don't think I'll ever forget you calling glass cutting boards "dark sith" in your episode on cutting boards. lol I was living with my (now ex-)wife's parents at the time and they had one. I already knew not to use glass cutting boards (oorah culinary school!! rofl) and never did but every time I saw that thing, I chuckled. 🤣 You're a living legend, man!! Keep up the great work!!
Love it! Sure hope he talks about serrated knives and how we are to sharpen those!
Yay! I love a good sharp knife. I don't care what they say, i sharpen mine once a week on stone.
25:51 ‐‐ "IT PUTS THE GRAPEFRUIT SPOON ON ITS SKIN!"
As always, your pun game is on point, AB 👍☕️
When cutting superhots do infact wear gloves cause washing your hands and then using the bathroom is a experience you do not want
lol this guy chopped everything the wrong way
I dont understand scraping Jalepenos, if I didn't want heat I'd use a bell pepper. People who do not like hot food, should just not eat hot food. Its on them for being cowards and wusses and I'm tired of protecting them from themselves.
This video really don’t feel like 41 minutes and it was a joy to watch the whole way through. Love you, Alton!
Sharpening a knife is not terribly difficult. Practice on cheaper knives before you try your hand on your good $400 dollar steel and don't wait until the bevel is completely worn away.
Excellent video. I believe good sir, we learn a lot in this very blissfully long video. Our noggin is being fed well today.
This is not salsa. Its pico de gallo.
He’s the GOAT. I literally learned how to cook watching him as a teen and it literally changed my life. I got into the culinary field bc of him and have never looked back since
Alton is the literal God of cooking YouTube.
I think we need to be introduced at some point to the person who is editing these, because it's genuinely artful.
this is the longest salsa video that I've ever seen. It's actually poetic how he could take something so mundane and over explain it in such a way.
Knife nerd here. Mostly great info but a bit disappointed to see wetstones absent and advocacy for the use of honing steels.
Alton, if you're reading this. Get a hardback leather strop. It'll change your life.
16:18 AB was dangerously close to turning into an anime character with that line and pose, there. "The people of earth cry out in hunger! The fingers of my left hand tell me to feed them! No dish shall be unprepared! No food shall go unserved! No stomach shall remain unfilled! ENOUGH TALK, WE COOK!!"
What brand is the honing steel?
Magnetic knife holders are a terrible idea uf you have a cat.
Yeah, i wear gloves because i was making salsa once and hours later and after many hand washings i took my contacts out and the oil was still on my hands…