Good Eats

Seasons

1999

8.8

TV-G

Chef Alton Brown whips up quick recipes and explores the science behind what makes them so tasty.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Steak Your Claim

Host Alton Brown journeys from field to market to hardware store in search of the perfect steak and the perfect pan to sear it in.

S1 • E2

This Spud's for You

Host Alton Brown ponders the potato and it's main ingredient: starch. Baking, mashing, and gratins are re-examined.

S1 • E3

The Egg-Files

Host Alton Brown cracks the mysterious egg case and pursues a higher understanding of the amazing ovoid's culinary powers. Land a non-stick pan, scramble, over easy, and consider eggs for dessert.

S1 • E4

Salad Daze

Exiled to bars, chopped and pre-packaged, drenched in noxious concoctions, the tossed salad deserves better. Host Alton Brown goes back to salad basics and pays homage to Caesar.

S1 • E5

A Bird in the Pan

Why did the chicken cross the road? Probably to escape host Alton Brown who seems intent on defining the perfect broiled chicken, out of the oven and bathed in sauce in under half an hour.

S1 • E6

Churn Baby Churn

You scream, I scream, but Alton Brown would rather make his own ice cream...and sorbet and granita. Learn the secrets the pros don't want you to know and find an ice cream machine that delivers the goods without breaking the bank.

S1 • E7

The Dough Also Rises

Searching for the perfect southern style biscuit, host Alton Brown investigates flour, chemical leaveners, and turns to his Grandmother for a pointer or two...not to mention a few pointed comments.

S1 • E8

Gravy Confidential

Don't miss the (gravy) boat as host Alton Brown (armed with the right pan and whisk for the job) conquers rouxs and leads the way to lump free liquid love.

S1 • E9

A Bowl of Onion

Host Alton Brown journeys to the center of the onion and after rediscovering a kitchen classic, and debunking the mythology of tear-free onion cutting, emerges with a divine bowl of soup.

S1 • E10

Hook Line and Dinner

Host Alton Brown dives deep into the watery world of fish and finds that with three cooking methods under your belt, you can cook just about any seafood.

S1 • E11

Pantry Raid I: Use Your Noodle

Part 1 of a recurring series looks at the king of pantry essentials: pasta.

S1 • E12

Power to the Pilaf

Host Alton Brown heads down to Louisiana for a sack of rice, evaluates rice cookers, unlocks the secrets of saffron and rewrites the rules for the most versatile of all rice dishes: the pilaf.

S1 • E13

The Art of Darkness

Host Alton Brown delves into the dark world of chocolate, picks a pod, roasts some beans, questions mysterious guests, visits his shrink, makes a mousse and strikes on the ultimate chocolate recipe.