By the way, for the original poster, do a search on "Alton Brown" or "Good Eats" here at the HTF. You will not find a cooking thread on this site that does not mention AB or his show.
What I especially love is the fact Alton Brown goes into a lot of the explanations of how certain foods are cooked and does it in such an entertaining way you want to see more. Pity he's spending more time doing Iron Chef America nowadays because I really like him to do more Good Eats episodes.
I wanted to add that while I enjoy the show sometimes AB is not consistent when it comes to his standards.
He has often talked about how he doesn't like unitasker (spelling?) tools but low and behold one of his favorite tools is the king of unitaskers. I'm of course referring to his love for the electric water kettle.
Hay AB all it does is heat water and that is it.
It is a UNITASKER!
You could use a regular old pot to accomplish the exact same thing.
That one is even better shown as a double feature with the "snowed in" one. The basis for the snowed in episode was that after they wrapped "Romancing the Bird", no one could go home from the studio because of 1" of snow that pummled Georgia, so Alton had to feed the crew using all the turkey leftovers. The crew started to revolt because of cabin fever, so he had to come up with more and more creative leftover recipes. Combine that scenario with him finding robot 'W' in a back room and hilarity is guaranteed.
I think I saw him use it to heat broth for risotto once, so he may be off the hook. If I'm remembering correctly, I guess the fire extinguisher is safe as the only unitasker he owns.
Good Eats is finally back on the food networks. So far they did episodes on Chicken Parm and Ancient Grains. They have also updated several older episodes in what they call "Good Eats Reloaded".