Quotes About Cooking

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

Patience is the secret to good food.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

I don't cook... I don't know how to clean... there's may be a good chance I'm an alcoholic.

I'm not a cook and I always stick everything in the freezer and then I leave things out, saying 'if it's good today it will be good tomorrow.'

I don't cook, I can't cook, and it is really abominable to see me in the kitchen. I order in takeaway food or get my friends to cook because a lot of them are very good.

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.