Weinr Loves Food!

For anyone who knows me, they know I’m a totally wacko obsessive Good Eats fan. I think I have all of them that have ever aired more than once taped. I’m missing one or two here and there, but my collection is still growing. In fact, I actually went through, and re-recorded a bunch of them just so I could have a better quality recording. This sort of stuff take years to do, since there are 11 seasons of the show.

So, what’s the project about? Well, actually, it’s about writing out an episode list, making synopsys’, and putting together recipes. The episode list won’t be  very hard since my library is mostly in the right order as it is. The more difficult thing, however, will be the recipes and the episode summaries. *sigh* If only I had more time. And no, I’m not Marty, I don’t have a time machine :-\

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What’s your favorite Good Eats episode? Mine? I’m not quite sure yet. I have, however, been catalogging about 200 gigs of all the Good Eats episodes that I’ve recorded over the past two or three years.

I’ve got my computer setup to automatically record all Good Eats episodes. Then, I rip the commercials out, and recompress them into mp4 videos so that I can watch them on my iPod. I used to resize them to 320×240 instead of leaving them at around 640×480, so that I could save a bunch of space. About a year ago I decided to keep my videos at a reasonable resolution, and a reasonable bitrate so that they didn’t look like complete crap if I decided to view them on my television, which I now permanently have a media computer hooked up to. Anyway, I’ve been replacing old, low resolution versions with newer, higher quality versions. I have over 225 episodes recorded – I have multiple versions of some episodes. I’ve been going through them and actually watching enough of the episode to identify the episode name, and then looking on Food Network’s Good Eats Episode Guide so that I can get the appropriate season, and episode number. Needless to say, it’s a little bit time consuming. I got through about 75 of them yesterday, between cleaning my garage, moving cars around, and helping my wife paint. I have quite a few really early episodes, and I also have quite a few that I can’t find in the episode guide. Anyway, here are some geeky things about Good Eats:

• You may have seen an episode in the last year called Pop Culture – the name shown IN the episode is actually Pop Art. When I come across other episodes, I will have to point them out.
• The episode seasons are listed in really weird orders. season 1 is prefixed with EA1A, Season 2 is EA2B – yet season’s 09, 10 and 11 are prefixed with EA09, EA10, EA11. I wonder if they switched production companies or something? Anyway, it’s a weird change. Also, there are special episodes, prefixed with EASP and “Cable In The Classroom” episodes, prefixed with EACL. I even have a few of these special educational series – they’re shown on TV at like 4:30-5:30 in the morning. Hey, I’m not up, but my computer is

So yeah, geeky stuff. Anyway, I need to continue compiling episodes. Once I’m done, I’ll have to find a way to fill in what I’m missing. My wife bought me the Good Eats: Meats, Sweets and Holiday Treats collection last Christmas – Maybe I will have to wish for the Good Eats 27 pack DVD Collection (I think it gets bigger every year!)

I like Alton Brown’s show, if you couldn’t already tell

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I watched Good Eat’s Melondrama episode last night, and was surprised at the Hot Melon Salad. AB has always had an entertaining way of giving me ideas for new eats, but I don’t think I’ve actually ever created any of his verbatim. I take that back; I made the Lemon Meringue pie from Good Eat’s I, Pie episode. Anyway, I’m intrigued by the feta ingredient added to Melon. I’m not quite sure what flavor I’d expect from that. I might have to try it and see what it’s all about.

Now, I realize this isn’t a new episode, but I honestly haven’t seen it. And I’ve seen a lot of Good Eats. I mean, lots of them. I record every episode that I don’t already have. I can’t take a look right this second, but I probably more than 75 episodes on my computer. While that doesn’t seem like a whole lot, I regularly skip watching aired versions of good eats because I already have the episode, and can watch it whenever I want to. Regardless, I didn’t have this episode, and I don’t recall ever seeing it.

Good Eats is a good show

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