Joe Bastianich Quotes

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

I'm not a chef: I'm a cook.

I used to be a chef.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

I know my way around the kitchen. I like to cook, so I can fry an egg. I guess I could be a fry cook at Bob's Big Boy or something, or maybe a sous chef somewhere a little nicer. I would like to do that. I think I can probably pick that up pretty quickly.

I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

Being a chef would be too much hard work.

I always knew I wanted to be a chef.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.

I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.

I've never cooked a great meal.

It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

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

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.