Good Eats: Oat Cuisine

Long a staple of horse diet, oats have a great deal to offer people, too – as the Scots learned and shared. Here, Alton explores this overlooked grain, applying science and technique (as usual) to create Good Eats. Recipes include delicious Overnight Oats, Steel Cut Oatmeal, and Granola. Alton also offers brave viewers a recipe for Haggis, a Scottish meal that starts as a sheep’s stomach.

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Episode Info

Episode number: 5x2
Production Number: EA1E06
Airdate: Wednesday November 07th, 2001

Director: Alton Brown
Writer: Alton Brown

Uncredited

Deb Duchon
As Nutritional Anthropologist

Recurring

Main Cast

Alton Brown
As Himself

Recap

Oats have long been a staple of horse diets. But with his usual approach – a little science and a little technique – Alton plans to make them…Good Eats...

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Episode Notes

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Feeling brave? Dowload a haggis recipe from www.foodtv.com
93% of the U.S. oat crop is fed to animals.
High heat and acid can curdle buttermilk producing curds and whey.
True cinnamon comes from the Zeylanicum tree.
Oats contain more soluble fiber than any other grain.
Muesli, or Swiss oatmeal, is usually soaked or cooked overnight.
Other possible fruit additions {to slow cooked oatmeal}: dry cherries, raisins, dry apricots (sliced thin), dry blueberries, dry pineapple and prunes (sliced thin).

The episode title is a play on the French term haut cuisine, literally, "high cooking."

Cultural References

Nutritional anthropologist Deb Duchon appears in riding garb to explain the history of oats; they're mostly used as animal feed. Alton refers to her as Auntie Mame, a reference to several movies and a play (famously starring Murder, She Wrote's Angela Lansbury). Among Auntie Mame's many joys was horse riding.

Alton's snippy cookware specialist W alludes to James Bond's armorer Q - she shares his skill and curmudgeonly outlook.

Oatmeal that's chewy as Gumby sure wouldn't be Good Eats. That's because Gumby (and his horse Pokey) were a pair of rubbery animated characters who appeared first on Howdy Doody and later when on to their own adventures in The Gumby Show and Gumby Adventures.

In the class fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Goldilocks passed up the Papa Bear's porridge (too hot) and Mama Bear's porridge (too cold) before settling on the Baby Bear's bowl that was just the right temperature. Alton's goal is to produce a bowl that's juuust right.

Episode References

Alton revisits the subject of oats in season fourteen's Oat Cusine II.

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