hi uh alton brown here um this is the uh the late show's precise advice i have here in my
hand uh cards uh from various people around the the universe uh with questions uh about uh food
cooking uh uh male modeling you know all sorts of things anyway i'm gonna do uh my very best
to come up with some precise advice let's get going here do i need to go to culinary school
to become a successful chef no but it would help if you would buy you know a full set of all the
books that i've written all nine of them and that pretty much would make up for culinary school and
if you feel that you just need to spend more money dm me on social media and we'll work something out
what makes for longevity innovation or precise repetition um i would argue precise repetition
look at it this way um if you're you know like a primordial creature and you do something one day
and stay alive why would you innovate and make yourself perhaps you know a victim of an apex
predator so whatever it is you do that works one day just keep doing it until the end of a long and
fruitful life or career what is the best butter for baking uh well for one thing most recipes are
written for unsalted butter and believe it or not a more expensive butter is actually usually better
cheap grocery store generic brands can contain up to uh 12 percent water which very often is not
factored into in the recipe see i actually do know something about cooking how do i rebuild trust in
you after having learned that you put mayonnaise in your scrambled eggs essentially scrambled
eggs okay that's an emulsion okay a mixture a a homogeneous mixture of fat and water essentially
and that's what mayonnaise is so mayonnaise is kind of like a booster to the emulsion that you're
trying to make just go with me on this you can trust me um i have always wanted to make macarons
not macaroons of course that's a coconut thing uh mccollum problem is i have a pretty serious almond
allergy uh what do i do well that would definitely be a problem since the very soul of a malcolm
not the french president his soul would not be made out of all this that's his business is
typically by definition made with almond flour however that can be substituted uh with the
liquid that comes out of of a soaking or cooking uh chickpeas apple faba is what it's called and
it's full of protein and it can actually be whipped up into a form a lot like what you
get in the macaron there are many many recipes on the internet for that kind of thing mine
being the best probably okay what is the one food you think you should want but you don't
i don't ever want to see another piece of avocado toast i would rather eat a rotten cat
spread out on bread then put another piece of avocado toast in my mouth
i had it by the way you know that avocados are one of the only fruits that will not ripen until
picked just thought you should know that but don't you put it on toast or i'll come for you
um is it a real sin to wash your cast iron with soap what's actually the best
way to clean your cast iron it is not it's iron it can take some soap
i use some soap online all the time what cast iron doesn't like is high abrasives because once you
create um what we call a cure you know you get it nice and black and you get that polymerized crust
on there you want to keep that smooth that's what keeps rust out so you don't want to use the braces
i mean like a metal abrasive okay so i usually deglaze mine let it get really hot he glaze it
with some liquid scrape around with a wooden spoon and most everything comes off then i put a little
oil on it and put it away but if something's really stuck on there use soap and water it's
iron it'll get over it um how will we manage to survive without new good eats episodes coming out
just because i've shut down good eats doesn't mean i'm dying i'm going to be making new things
you will like them unless you like avocado toast for peach pie what is the best crust
graham cracker shortbread or traditional pie crust i actually think for a good peach pie filling
shortbread is too sweet um i don't like the the crumbly consistency of a graham cracker crust
with a fruit pie it's for stuff like key lime pie all right that's uh amorphous so i would go with
the traditional pie crust pre-blind baked because typically the the peach filling is rather on the
moist side well i hope that this advice has helped all of you and thanks for watching precise advice
you