I was recently turn onto a show on the Food Network and thought I'd share it. It's been around for like 3 or 4 years now.
Good Eats
It's pretty cool cause the guy goes into detail explaining stuff like the physics behind things. He also goes over a lot of basic stuff. You can check out the show on the Food Network website.
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we watch this show sometimes, and yeah he does give you a lot of good info about the hows and whys. but sometimes i have to turn it off just because he's acting like such a douche. i guess that's the gimmick of the show, but it drives me nuts.
There was a show on Discovery (or the Science channel i think it is in the states now?) called Kitchen Chemistry with Hester Blumenthal or something like that, veyr interesting too if you like to understand what actually goes on when you cook.