16 Sweet Baking Tips We Stealed From Alton Brown

16 Sweet Baking Tips We Stealed From Alton Brown

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Alton Brown has been television's reigning food scientist for over 25 years, ever since his cooking show, "Good Eats," first aired on Food Network in 1999. His unique blend of humor, hijinks, and a healthy helping of stone-cold facts distills even the most mystifying culinary complexities into simple, logical concepts that just make sense. This is all evident in the way he breaks down fundamental food phenomena like the Maillard reaction and home-brewed beer, but Brown's Bill Nye-esque flavor of food science lends itself especially well to the ultra-scientific world of baking. Unlike cooking, baking employs a series of carefully balanced chemical reactions, and things go awry when proportions get out of whack, so scientific precision is essential. Brown is the perfect instructor to clarify the key concepts necessary for home cooks to execute recipes perfectly and even experiment on their own. Here are …