Alton Brown Quotes About Cooking

Quotes about: Cooking

• Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

  Alton Brown

  Food, Cooking, Recipes

• I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.

  Alton Brown

  Girl, Sex, Fun

  The AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

• The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it.

  Alton Brown

  Turkeys, Numbers, People

  Source: www.npr.org

• Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

  Alton Brown

  Evil, Bird, Cooking

• I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

  Alton Brown

  Cooking, Stories, Way

• No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.

  Alton Brown

  Art, Creativity, Mean

  "Alton Brown Answers, At Last". Slashdot Interview, interviews.slashdot.org. September 12, 2002.

• I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

  Alton Brown

  Simple, Eggs, Cooking

  "Alton Brown Answers, At Last". Slashdot Interview, interviews.slashdot.org. September 12, 2002.

• I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Views, Issues

• Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Pbs, Cooking

• 'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

  Alton Brown

  Dark, Men, Cooking

• My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.

  Alton Brown

  Book, Cooking, Ingredients

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