25 Alton Brown Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alton Brown

American Entertainer

Born: Jul 30, 1962

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I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table. Alton Brown

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food. Alton Brown

Food You Before Road Hot Hot Dogs Like Know Most Dear Dogs Hamburgers Were American Hold Even Things Peasant

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice. Alton Brown

You Dinner Disservice Unless Pele Kid Able Feed Make Knows How Done Going Soccer Them Themselves Your Play

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school. Alton Brown

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 rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible. Alton Brown

Best Together Advice Other Rules Possible Exactly Only Like Pie Involved Very Handle Than Liquid Same Little Dough Apply

We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise. Alton Brown

Down Getting

Do not allow watching food to replace making food. Alton Brown

Food Allow Making Replace Watching

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game. Alton Brown

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 who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do. Alton Brown

Home Me You People Try Some People Impress Circles Table Some More Could Generally Feel Know Around Than Crackers Canned Tuna Cook Less Who Serve

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame. Alton Brown

Good Food You Flame Too Bad Licking See Various Makes Does Chemicals Nasty Hit Want While Grill Us Really Your Actual Thing Things Last

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it. Alton Brown

Food You Science Everything Eat Only Part Subjective

Laughing brains are more absorbent. Alton Brown

Laughing More Brains

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do. Alton Brown

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 I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about. Alton Brown

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do! Alton Brown

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously. Alton Brown

Work Myself Seriously Extraordinarily Take Although Very

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that. Alton Brown

Me Military Say Kind About Something Kitchen Like French Knows Talking Am Male Any Going Anybody Worked Who Ever

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't. Alton Brown

Work Me Game People Better Nothing Sympathy Those Out Better Now Picking For The People Forced Want Who Now Play

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 an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes. Alton Brown

Me Cooking Book First About Talk Because Understand Heat Quite Common Processes Ingredient Really Exploration Why

I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start. Alton Brown

You Protection Before Skin Nice Side High Easy Super Gives Brush Tends Almost Almost All Make Because Least Real Still Fish Lot Very Heat Oil Which Against Grill Turn Really Barrier Start

That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs. Alton Brown

Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes. Alton Brown

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I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher. Alton Brown

Teacher Home Like Goofy Really

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun. Alton Brown

Work Cooking Sex Girl Odds Out Only Through Simply Over Attract Opposite Opposite Sex Offered Improved Efforts Did Asking Cook Radically Fun Found Actually

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