Tom Douglas Quotes

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

As a chef, I like to be totally prepared. I'm so big on lists. I love lists.

I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen - where to stand and how to be out of people's way and how to function like a machine.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.

I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.

You have to be disciplined about being in the kitchen.

Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that's half the battle.

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.

If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

I'm trying to learn how to cook.

I'm a great believer in outlines.

Schedule your time. People always ask, 'How do you do it all?' I'm like a walking calendar. I literally make my snacks on a Sunday if I'm traveling on a Tuesday, and I'll pack them before I leave.

If I'm going on vacation, I just work ahead.

I found that preparation is everything when you cook.