Episode
Good Eats: Hittin' the Sauce II
Overview
No matter how good of a cook you are, sooner or later your seafood is going to let you down. Alton Brown has the sauces that will save your dinner every time.
Details
- Series
- Good Eats
- Season
- Season 15
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2019-09-01
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Hittin' the Sauce II is Episode 3 in Season 15 of Good Eats. It aired on 2019-09-01. The runtime is 21 min.
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