Alton Brown’s Good Eats Cookbook – The Early Years

After recently discovering the amazing cooking show, Good Eats (which came out 17 years ago, better late than never), I started doing a Julia and Julia thing without all the sad whiney problems. I started at the first episode and began creating chef Alton Brown’s dishes from the TV show like the Ribeye Steak and the Baked Potato, mostly to learn some cooking technique of which I had none.

While researching some of the recipes from the show I performed a quick “something search” (watch Arrested Development) and found out that Good Eats had its own cookbook! And the cookbook was kind of like a CD liner notes for the show.

This was just what I was looking for to really help me get this project going and get me on the way to being a real cooking bro!

Leaving My Dull Knives Behind – DALSTRONG Shogun Series Santoku Knife – My New Bro

“The most dangerous item in the kitchen is an non-sharp knife”

This is something I’ve heard about 40 times since I’ve started working on my cooking game. This is also something that I have never subscribed to. In fact, my knives are so dull that they can barely cut the food, which in my head means, they cannot cut me. The last time I used a sharp knife, within 2 minutes it had sliced halfway through the tip of my finger!

However, now that I’ve started to learn things like knife skills, and since I started actually cutting up food, I have found that my dull knives are really making things hard on me. Cutting food in general is tough with a dull knife, and making small dices and juliennes (type of cuts, Google bro!) are impossible. In order to up my game, I’m going to need a real knife.

So I went out and bought this insane knife…why not…what could go wrong…