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Recipes featured in this episode: - Very Basic Bread
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Alton Brown
Host and Creator
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Onscreen trivia: Distilled water has been boiled into steam, then condensed back into water and collected in a purer form.
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Onscreen trivia: Although professional bakers often use special razors for slashing, a serrated bread knife will do just fine.
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Onscreen trivia: If your dough doesn't rise on the "bench", then your yeast has "proven" it's a goner.
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Autolyzing allows the flour to hydrate and the gluten to relax.
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Onscreen trivia: A bakery in France claims to have been using the same (yeast) starter since the time of Napoleon.
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NOTES (1)
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Locations visited in this episode: Harry's Farmers Market, Alpharetta, GA
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ALLUSIONS (4)
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"Is it safe?" Based on his tone of voice, Alton is repeating a line repeated over and over by sinister Nazi dentist Dr. Szell in the 1976 movie Marathon Man, played by Lawrence Olivier and also starring Dustin Hoffman.
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The Gluten March Alton uses an animation, complete with a Sousa-esqe march, to describe gluten. This animation suggests those Terry Gilliam created for Monty Python's Flying Circus and various movies.
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Shaken, not stirred Alton uses this term when describing how to prepare a glaze that promotes crust formation. It refers to the method for mixing martinis preferred by literary and motion picture super-spy James Bond.
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Dr Strangeloaf "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", movie by Stanley Kubrick starring Peter Sellers. The allusion is carried further by the full name of the episode, visible on the chalkboard: Dr. Strangeloaf, or, "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bread".
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