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Cooks Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
- I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat…
- If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook?…
- Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the…
- The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
- Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is…
- The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help…
- When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the…
More Cooks Quotes
- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. — Robert Ballard
- As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The… — Mario Batali
- The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. — Mario Batali
- Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere… — Mario Batali
- You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season,… — Mario Batali
- There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be,… — Annie Besant
- Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth -… — Juliette Binoche
- Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who… — Anthony Bourdain
- I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my… — Anthony Bourdain
- I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity,… — Anthony Bourdain
- 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and… — Anthony Bourdain