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Good Eats: Pantry Raid II: Seeing Red
Alton's back to the pantry, this time for tomatoes. From a discussion of different ways tomatoes are sold Alton meanders through the hazards of electric can openers and the right way to care for your knives before he reaches his goal: a tomato sauce that tastes like hours but takes minutes, and works well for all sorts of foods - and to prove it, Alton shows three easy variations of his Pantry Friendly Tomato Sauce.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 2x11 Production Number: EA1B12 Airdate: Wednesday June 07th, 2000 |
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Recap
Alton starts in the pantry – the symbol of preparedness. There he talks about canned tomatoes, without which he could not produce tomato sauce. He proposes a “binary tomato sauce” that tastes like it takes hours but actually takes only minutes. Along the way he’ll evaluate canned tomatoes and the tools used with them, discover the truth behind cutlery maintenance, and even delve into the zen of mirepoix...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Cards
- Since they require extra force to use, dull knives are responsible for most kitchen accidents.
- Mire Poix: Traditional chopped mixture of 2 parts onion to 1 part carrot and celery.
- Capers are the brined, un-opened blossoms of a Mediterranean bush.
- Tomato sauces did not appear in Italian cookery until the 19th century.
- Although much of the alcohol added during cooking does “cook out”, small amounts always remain.
The official food network site FoodTV refers to this episode as Seeing Red (without the "Pantry Raid II"). The episode's title card has the full title Pantry Raid II: Seeing Red.
Cultural References
Alton demonstrates the firmness of artificially reddened but unripe "fresh" tomatos sold in many stores by squeezing such a berry in a vise. Noting the force this takes, he refers to it as "Uncle Fester." Uncle Fester was a character from The Addams Family (1964). One of his many quirks was compressing his own head in an old fashioned workworker's clamp until it "popped" just as Alton does with his tomato.
The subtitle of the sequence featuring "The Blade Smith" is "The Edge of Knife." This is a pun on the name of long running soap opera The Edge of Night.
The subtitle of the segment on how to chop properly and build a mirepoix, Slice, Dice and Everything Nice refers to a nursery rhyme that describes girls as being made of "sugar and spice and everything nice."
The title of the episode contains a double dose of puns: pantry raid refers to the hoary fraternity practice of stealing underwear from sorority sisters and other women. Such a "panty raid" was a common hazing rite. Seeing Red here refers to the color of ripe tomatoes, but generally someone who is "seeing red" is very angry.
The name E. Clement Hoss is a parody of the name W. Clement Stone, a rags-to-riches businessman probably most well known for his influence on politics: he gave two million dollars to the two Nixon campaigns, and those contributions figured in the post-Watergate debates over campaign spending restrictions.
Episode References
This is the second in the Pantry Raid series of episodes; the first is "Pantry Raid I: Use Your Noodle."
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