Best Alton Brown Sayings
- I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the… Background
- I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so… Anymore
- Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get… Bacon
- Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing. Kitchen
- If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on… Childhood
- The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher. Allowed
- There are no bad foods, only bad food habits. Bad
- You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell… Ability
- Remember, America: organization will set you free. America
- All [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating. All
- In the end, all journeys are spiritual. So go off the main road. Be givers of hospitality and gracious takers of it too. Accept the… Accept
- Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets… Basting
- A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same… Advice
- Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It… Comfort
- I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and… Go
- I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people… Canned
- I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good… All
- If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake… Add
- Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless. Bad
- 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… All
- My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive… Actually Give
- Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll… Ask
- You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before… American
- I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways. Became
- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. Advance