Alton Brown's flying fruit contraption

I suspect that some of may be wondering why Alton Brown signed "Sorry" on this item to my mom.



Well, let me tell you.

During part of the Good Eats Live show, AB's challenge was to make the one unitasker in his kitchen (we all know what that is) into a mulitasker. With a brief appearance from W, Alton created an item that froze fruit in water cooler.

Then the mayhem broke loose.

Alton hacked the water cooler and the fire extinguisher into some type of device then put in the fruit and blasted away on the extinguisher. Before you knew it, fruit flew like shrapnel. And I was fortunate enough to sit in the first row, in the poncho zone for the Gallagher treatment.

I came out with some water damage from when AB emptied the water cooler in front of me and a few splatters of fruit. My mom, sitting to my right, got fruit splatters and was hit with a blueberry.

At the post show party, she asked AB if he would sign her poncho and said that she got hit with a blueberry. AB wrote "Sorry" on the poncho and told her the blueberry was a snack for later. You can see said blueberry in the photo as well.

Mom told me she was thinking as Alton was saying and writing sorry, that was fun and he didn't need to apologize for doing it.