Chris Young, who is otherwise famous for being a co-author of the 2,438-page cookbook Modernist Cuisine or centrifuging steaks and drinking them, is one of the friends who, over the years, has told me I have to watch Breaking Bad, the TV show. When I was in Marrakech for a few weeks earlier this year, and it was a million degrees outside, I cracked and started watching, and I see why people say it’s one of the best shows ever. I’m only up to S2E4, and I see why everyone loves it, including that it is sometimes unintentionally hilarious, but I had to stop because it was getting a bit too dark and bumming me out before I went to bed.
However, I’m glad I made it through that season and a half of Breaking Bad, because it has given me the ability to appreciate this homage Chris has done, attempting to use science and chemistry to cook ribs in an apartment oven just as well as you could with a smoker. If you live at the intersection of Breaking Bad, BBQ, science, chemistry, and cooking, this is the video for you. And now, this makes me want to order some Pit Room in Houston. (WordPress-powered!)
And if you haven’t yet, you should buy one of Chris’ Combustion Predictive Thermometers (here on Amazon).
You’re lucky, wish I could watch it again for the first time, and then you have Better Call Saul which is just as good. 🙂
Better Call Saul is even better IMO. I remember getting bored in later seasons of BB, but the prequel kept me interested the whole way through.
Possibly better? Definitely differently and more hysterically dark. Breaking Bad was way too much for my bedtime viewing.
I agree — Better Call Saul is definitely better than Breaking Bad. But it makes sense, the same people made the show, and a lot of the same actors and writers. And there are so many seasons of both shows. 🙂
> Better Call Saul is even better IMO.
I have to agree here. This is one of the few times a spin-off ends up being as good as the play that spawned it.
I think everyone hits a wall in the middle of season 2. Whenever I rewatch Breaking Bad, that’s usually the same place where I have to take a breather and step away.
I’m glad you watched it. It’s a piece of brilliant storytelling that has defined the medium.