Recap of Alton Brown demo at the Walker School

The demo Alton Brown conducted at the Walker School last weekend was one of the best I've have had the pleasure of attending. Sadly, there was a no video and no photography rule. While I was tempted to snap a few because I have a sweet Canon Rebel SLR and know how to shoot in low light sans flash, I didn't do it. Mainly because AB said if anyone posted things to the Internet he'd sue that person for everything they had and didn't care who it was.

Basically my article here would look like this as to the visuals:


So instead of having a lot of visuals with my recap as per usual, I had to get a little creative to bring everyone the experience being at the event. Oh and at the book signing part AB said to me when we posed for a picture together, "Another one to add to your 600 other photos."

Well I've have to put those "600" photos to good use for this recap.

For those of you interested in his attire and overall appearance.


He broke out his favorite apron, which he doesn't wash. His culinary assistant Tammy commented it had the some stuff on it from the Cleveland demo.

For the demo he made baked Alaska. After talking about the origin of the dish, AB started to make chocolate ice cream for the inside of the dessert. He used the tried and true method of liquid nitrogen to freeze it.

He whined the mixers for the demo weren't a manly color and that he didn't pick them out. Tammy added the green apple was lovely (she picked the color). AB said it looked seasick or a like color Martha Stewart would sell. He then smeared the chocolate ice cream base on the mixer.

By the way, there are other uses for liquid nitrogen because you need to justify spending $300 for the dewar to hold the liquid nitrogen. Wart removal and freezing graham crackers to feed to dogs are two other uses AB has found. He said he gives his dogs frozen graham crackers to make his corgis look like dragons.

If you're going to freeze the ice cream with liquid nitrogen, then why not complete the baked Alaska using some other over the top device. That's what he did. To "bake" the dessert, AB scoffed at the wussy torches sold in cooking stores for something with more fire power. Literally, with fire... a flame thrower.

I think AB has gone the route of the character Tim Allen played on Home Improvement. Next time maybe he'll do Tim Taylor more power grunt.