On 27/02/2011 3:35 PM, Michael O'Connor wrote:
>
>> I watch the cooking shows that teach and use common grocery store items. I
>> do not watch the fancy plating cooking shows. I watch: Good Eats, Americas
>> Test Kitchen and Joanne Wiers's Cooking Class. But I am a new at cooking
>> for myself in my old retired age.
>>
>
> Good Eats is my favorite cooking show, since it's entertaining and
> teaches the science of food. I also like how his sometimes unorthodox
> methods, such as the time he used a stack of 18 X 18 X 1 inch air
> conditioner filters bungeed together to a box fan to make beef jerky.

I have to hand it to Alton for teaching some valuable tips but he is
just too damned anal for me. Everything has to be exact. That is not a
fun way to cook.




> Another show I enjoy is Diners Drive Ins and Drives, because they go
> into restaurants across the country and cooks show how they prepare
> their signature dishes. My least favorite cooking show has to be the
> various Iron Chef shows, since I've never seen anything prepared on
> that show that I would want to eat or try to make myself.

IMO Diners Drive Ins and Dives is one that ranks up there with
Unwrapped.... stuff I really don't care to watch. I would rather learn
to gook a nice meal for two, four or 6 people, not how to make enough to
keep a greasy spoon going for a day or two.