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Posted at December 27, 2015, 12:44 pm:

I did not make these up, but I wish I had. Some of them are pretty funny. I can't post the link to the original site, b/c I don't have 15 posts yet. Enjoy.
#1. Alton Brown grinds his own peppercorns. With his teeth. #2. Alton Brown's chili cheese fries are healthier than raw carrots. Even after he adds the bacon and lard
#3. Alton Brown brushes his teeth with wasabi and gargles with pickle brine. But still his breath smells like lemon merengue
#4. Alton Brown can boil a three-minute egg in thirty-seven seconds
#5. When Alton Brown was born, he collected the hospital slop they'd left for his mother and made it into an zesty, appetizing goulash. The dish fed the entire maternity ward for a week
#6. In the first, as-yet-unaired episode of Iron Chef America, Alton Brown single-handedly defeated an all-star team of Bobby Flay, Cat Cora, and Hiroyuki Sakai. The secret ingredient was 'whimsy'
#7. Alton Brown doesn't reduce sauces. He demoralizes sauces
#8. Alton Brown prepares his fugu blindfolded, with one chopstick and a plastic spork. Alton Brown ain't afraid of no chump neurotoxin
#9. Alton Brown's blender has four speeds: 'stir', 'mix', 'frappe', and 'plasmify'
#10. Alton Brown can split a pineapple in half using only his pinkies. For coconuts, though, he has to use his thumbs
#11. Alton Brown knows where capers come from. And he grows his own, on a Chia pet in the pantry
#12. On Rachel Ray's Show, she shows people where to eat for less than forty dollars a day. When Alton Brown eats, people pay him
#13. Alton Brown slices ham so thin, it can only be seen using an electron microscope
#14. Some knives can slice through a tin can and still cut a tomato. Alton Brown's knives can slice through a Pontiac, and still cut a tin can
#15. Grown men have been known to weep for joy in the mere presence of Alton Brown's vinagrette. His hollandaise sauce can kill a man from sheer ecstacy at forty paces
#16. Alton Brown can eat just one Lay's potato chip. If he ever bothered to eat food he didn't make himself, that is
#17. Alton Brown once got carried away slicing carrots, and julienned his cutting board. Undaunted, he sauteed the splinters in olive oil and spices -- and they were delicious
#18. Every Burger King Alton Brown has walked into has immediately closed forever -- try as they might, they simply can't 'do it his way'
#19. Alton Brown can pair a wine with any food -- including hot dogs, ice cream, raw eggs, Alpo, sawdust, and soylent green. It's people
#20. Alton Brown's cakes don't rise. They ascend
#21. Some meats are so tender, they seem to melt in your mouth. Alton Brown's meats are so tender, he's had entire turkeys vanish into thin air
#22. Alton Brown's no saint. But if his chicken Kiev cures one more kid's leprosy, the church will reconsider the evidence
#23. Alton Brown doesn't whip potatoes. Alton Brown's potatoes whip themselves, if they know what's good for them
#24. Alton Brown's other car is the Wienermobile
#25. Alton Brown's show is called "Good Eats", because 'Multiple Shuddering Mouthgasms' didn't play with the network's target demographic
#26. Alton Brown's freezer operates at minus-twenty-seven degrees. Kelvin
#27. Alton Brown once prepared shrimp gumbo for a cooking competition, using only salt, water, canned Spam, and a packet of Arby's 'Horsey Sauce'. He took second place. He would have won, but one of the judges was allergic to shellfish
#28. Alton Brown can fit three hundred and forty-two cookies on a standard-sized baking sheet. Without any touching
#29. When Alton Brown slices onions, the onions cry
#30. Alton Brown was once asked to participate in a blind orange juice taste test. He was the only person able to successfully identify the brand, style, vintage, temperature, pH level, distance to the orchard, age of the grove trees, and the names of the workers picking the fruit. Including the one who needs to start washing after bathroom breaks.

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