Quote

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

Alton Brown

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alton Brown
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
Actor
Author
Chef
Cinematographer
Musician
Television Personality
Voice Actor
Writer
LA
California
Alton Crawford Walter Brown
Alton Crawford Brown
Chefs
Refer
Chef
Employed
Cooks
Rarely
Good

More quotes by Alton Brown

Image
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 the sofa.
Alton Brown
Image
A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
Alton Brown
Image
I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
Alton Brown
Image
I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.
Alton Brown
Image
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 hurt.
Alton Brown
Image
Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch.
Alton Brown
Image
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera
Alton Brown
Image
If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.
Alton Brown
Image
Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it
Alton Brown
Image
So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.
Alton Brown
Image
I'm too tired to hate.
Alton Brown
Image
If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.
Alton Brown
Image
Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.
Alton Brown
Image
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
Alton Brown
Image
Remember, America: organization will set you free.
Alton Brown
Image
I hate using the word coagulant.
Alton Brown
Image
My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.
Alton Brown
Image
Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
Alton Brown
Image
I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.
Alton Brown
Image
I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile
Alton Brown