Quotes About Cooking

I do love cooking, but our kitchen is nothing fancy or hi-tech.

There are only three questions that matter in the kitchen if you're cooking and not baking. The first is how good are your ingredients; the second is how much salt to add; and the third is how long to cook whatever it is you're cooking - the question of doneness.

I want to empower people who might have lost their way in the kitchen or never known their way around it in the first place. And just go, this is a thing you can do, you can do this, and if you want I can show you how.

So, when I was about eight, I told my mother that I wanted to be a chef - and a police man, too. I didn't totally know that was it at the time, but I was very attracted to it from the beginning. I liked the idea of working with people in a kitchen, of dealing with ingredients, all of it.

A couple of my friends told me to get into cooking but I have not been able to get myself into the kitchen.

I don't cook. My kitchen is actually very small.

We host Thanksgiving in my mother's apartment in New York. I don't know if you've seen many New York apartment kitchens, but they are not known for spaciousness.

You can invite people over or make your kids their favorite food - that usually inspires me in the kitchen.

I'm not even a just a kitchen cook - everything we do has a purpose, and there's meaning to it.

It's so fun to get creative with various colors in the kitchen. The challenge is finding how to get enough color without letting the flavor overpower - unless that's what you want!

One thing I don't like is those three-star kitchens where they force the cooks to do exactly the same thing again and again. There has to be an element of chance in cookery.

I did 'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Celebrity MasterChef.' I was quite good at those, and did a cookbook.

When you go out for a good meal, chances are that there will be a deep fat fryer in the kitchen. Every Michelin star restaurant will have one.

I fished with my dad and my mum was a great cook, although I didnt help out in the kitchen. It was similar with my three boys and my ex-wife Jill.

I think it's safe to say I love cooking as much as I love sports. I love creating new dishes and just experimenting in the kitchen, but I never compromise on taste.

I love being in the kitchen and cooking and creating juices and smoothies every day.

If there's an Italian in the kitchen, let them get on with it.

Thats what cooking is: youve got this certain ingredient and you figure out what to do it. You never waste anything in a professional kitchen. Its all revenue.

The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

My first restaurant job was Knight of the Round Grill.

I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.

I am a hardcore foodie, which means I love to eat. I was also born with cerebral palsy, which means I shake all the time - so cooking is not my thing, as I am banned from being around knives and fire. Those who cannot cook, watch, and I am obsessed with cooking shows.