Cooking Quote by Alex Guarnaschelli

Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just…

— Alton Brown

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

— George Carlin

Once you start thinking of different dishes in terms of how they're heated, you quickly realize that the key to successfully pulling off a…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Some people bake turkeys for Thanksgiving, we bake ourselves.

— Anonymous

My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale…

— Wesley Morris

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

I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other…

— Wesley Morris

In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice…

— Jennifer Lee

It's so important that you don't put the stuffing in the bird, where in order for the stuffing to get cooked you have to…

— Ina Garten

Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

— Nicole Hollander

I don't know anyone who hasn't overcooked at least one turkey, myself included. It's easy to do.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

I always buy the smaller turkeys. On the pre-baste put pats of butter on the meat under the skin, put the skin back on,…

— Sandra Lee