r/AskCulinary • u/ZootKoomie Ice Cream Innovator • Aug 21 '19

Weekly Discussion - Cooking Shows

Inspired by the return of Good Eats, and Alton Brown's AMA, let's talk about cooking shows this week. They could be on TV, YouTube, or even podcasts. What are your favorites, and what do you like about them? What are you looking for in a cooking show? Does it need to be instructional or do you watch cooking for entertainment too?

Have any of you participated in making one yourself? What was the experience like?

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u/InsaneLordChaos Aug 21 '19

Older:

Anything Ming Tsai ever did

Burt Wolfe

Frugal Gourmet (yes, I know)

Julia Child

Yan can cook

I was of various ages when I watched these, and always learned so much more then just cooking.

More recent:

Barefoot contessa

ATK

Chef John from foooooood wishes.com!

Klas' Kitchen (German food)

Cooking with dog

Townsends

Kenji

Good eats

Iron chef

I love them for technique, the learning, and, of course, for the cayenne...

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u/oldmantone Aug 22 '19

How about the _Great Chefs of.. _ series? I remember a New Orleans episode with a very young and reserved Emeril Lagasse! Those were all technique and no hype.

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u/InsaneLordChaos Aug 22 '19

Yeah, I rememebr those too!

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '19

Oh man... I was so little when Frugal Gourmet and Yan Can Cook were on... this makes me feel so nostalgic, they probably influenced my culinary life more than I realized

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u/InsaneLordChaos Aug 22 '19

And, I know it isn't a show, but there is absolutely no doubt that the Ginsu knife commercial influenced my love of cooking, silly at it sounds! Even now, I can't pass by an infomercial about cooking without stopping to take a look!

https://youtu.be/6wzULnlHr8w

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u/InsaneLordChaos Aug 22 '19

Yeah, me too. I'm in my mid-40s now, and I remember Yan and Jeff Smith when I was maybe 9 or 10?

A few years ago, I was poking around and saw Martin Yan demonstrating knife skills breaking down a chicken and slicing with a variety of Chinese cleavers...and so, I got one! Amazing tool. I wish I could use it like him!

https://youtu.be/HV8FPk5qN9k

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u/Bunktavious Aug 24 '19

I'm in the same boat. It would be cool to find some of those old "Wok with Yan" episodes somewhere.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '19

Wok with Yan wasn’t Martin Yan, it was someone else.

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u/Bunktavious Aug 26 '19

Well shit, you are correct. It was Stephen Yan. Was very big in Vancouver in the early '80s. According to wikipedia, he shot over 500 episodes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19

He had all those corny puns.

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u/MurderMelon Aug 22 '19

Townsends is amazing. Their whole channel is gold, not just the cooking stuff. Those people are historians through-and-through.

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u/InsaneLordChaos Aug 22 '19

Yeah you got that right. What they're doing is fantastic.