Alton's Favorite Kitchen Gadgets: EXCLUSIVE | Good Eats: The Return with Alton Brown | Food Network

one of the hallmarks of a good eats episode is hacking things hacking tools making devices out of other devices to do my bidding and I think one of the first ones we did was the the pepper drill I don't know why I decided to put their rigid it was like when the old wooden style pepper mills on to a cordless drill pretty sure that was first to do it I'm just saying that but now we've switched over this is actually a coffee bean grinder hand grinder meant for camping and I like it cuz it's got this handle and it has this little cup on the end so that you can you know do a little do a little drilling and then get a lot of pepper freshly ground very fragrant I'm probably gonna sneeze in a second when working with really big pieces of meat like sides of salmon or when you're like barbecuing a lot of ribs this is definitely a tool that you want to have around very fragrant don't know if you can smell no you can't I'm sorry here's another one this is the prototype the original model one of something that came became known as the steel Lotus and steel Lotus was invented because I needed to steam a lot of chicken wings in a pot at one time I think it was the chicken wings if I'm wrong on that somebody let me know so we got the idea of just connecting three collapsible steaming baskets onto one piece of threaded screw stock from a hardware store so that this could set down in pots of different sizes and you could steam a lot of chicken wings because that was the first step to our buffalo style chicken wings you steam them and then you chill them then you bake them it's it's kind of beat up now I don't know if I would trust that anymore but an incredibly useful device because nobody was making kind of a foldable multistage steamer and you can just like drop it down and store it inside I don't like a little resealable container or something like that or just put rubber bands around it and that that works away well now from season one no no not season one see maybe the season three was our show where there's smoke there's fish and I decided to smoke side of salmon in a cardboard box and I thought at first well this is just going to one of those things they do one time because it's a good illustration of what a smoker actually does by removing the smoker process from smokers because people fixate on the devices and I wanted to fixate on the process but I'm still using it not the same box that first one was eaten by wild dogs after it rained outside my house but this is still still what we're using and I know we've got a camera up here as you can see it's just a couple of dowels in this case we've gone over two square ones with a roasting pan on the bottom and a electric just off the hardware store shelf hot plate and then I take a pie pan and use as a smoke diffuser and also to keep drips from the the fat from the food from dripping down onto the wood if I pan that I poked a bunch of holes in and you plug this in alright and you your your hot plate put some wood chips or wood chunks in the pan and fold it up and gosh darn it that's a smoker and if you use a double-walled or buddy's heavy-duty boxes believe it or not they're pretty well insulated and you can maintain temperatures around 180 degrees I've never had one catch on fire I do remember finding out that somebody one time wanted to build this and so what they did is they put the box on top of the hot plate and turn it on and that led to some first responders coming so it's really important that you you put the hot plate inside the box in the roasting pan that's what it's there for the aluminum roasting pan so pretty proud of that still use it again you know seven dollars I guess I mean well with the hot plate they usually go for about ten bucks at a hardware store peppers gonna make me sneeze I'm good but my favorite hack of all time favorite good attack of all time is most definitely the turkey Jared I don't know who decided to put the stuffed cat on there I would never fry cat of course that's a braised dish but the whole thing here is that you put your turkey fryer down there with all of it's a hot combustible oil and they're using the rope and a couple of pulleys and a carabiner you can safely lower your your church well look up over here see I'm over here safe distance safe distance away while I do that and then if you need to mess around with your turkey you just install this little clean and you tie off the rope and you can do things to the journey like take its temperature while putting a comment with you all I'm told by various members of the fire departments that this this device has kept some houses from burning down so although these are not the only four these are certainly my four favorite good eats Hardware hacks you

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Id: LawWilQ90v0

Length: 5min 17sec (317 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 29 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Somehow, I can't stop imagining some overzealous foodie wanting to try out the turkey derrick and dropping a frozen turkey into the pot.

[u/Negadas]

Of course I wouldn't fry a cat... that's a braised dish.

[u/Malthusian1]

I want to subscribe to this but I don’t want to subscribe to the food network.

[u/Senno_Ecto_Gammat]

Alton Brown just changed my life with the cardboard box smoker

[u/st-john-mollusc]

That drill foley sound effect though...

[u/wratz]

You know what? I doubted they could make the new episodes as good as the old ones. I was wrong. They are great!

[u/TheUltimateSalesman]

When AB starts talking about how to store the steamer using rubber bands, I couldn't help but think of The Anal Retentive Chef.