Food Network to Lanch a New Food Science Show

Queer Eye alum Ted Allen will begin hosting a Mythbusters-type show for the Food Network premiering July 27. The name of the show will be Food Detectives and the first episode will be about the 5-second rule, a topic which which McGee wrote about over a year ago in the New York Times.


I like the idea of the show but the questions they put in the press release seem kind of lame. "Does it really take seven years for gum to digest in your stomach?" "Can an “apple a day” really keep the doctor away?" Viewers will be able to submit their own questions to the show. I'm not aware of Ted Allen having a science background, but he will be helped by the folks at Popular Science magazine.

Let's hope he has a better fact-checker than Alton Brown!