While we're talking superheroes...
* Alton Brown doesnt churn butter. He spends half an hour telling cows about the value of butter and they squirt it out for him.
* Alton Brown doesnt wash his clothes; he brines them.
* Alton Brown can boil a three-minute egg in thirty-seven seconds.
* Grown men have been known to weep for joy in the mere presence of Alton Browns vinaigrette. His hollandaise sauce can kill a man from sheer ecstasy at forty paces.
* 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.
* Alton Brown can pair a wine with any food including hot dogs, ice cream, raw eggs, Alpo, sawdust, and soylent green.
* Alton Browns cakes dont rise. They ascend.
* Some meats are so tender, they seem to melt in your mouth. Alton Browns meats are so tender, hes had entire turkeys vanish into thin air.
* Alton Browns no saint. But if his chicken Kiev cures one more kids leprosy, the church will reconsider the evidence.
Alton rules.