Alton Brown Quotes

Typically, you learn how to cook, but you don't know why. We were looking for a deeper understanding of what was happening to our food as we roasted it, boiled it, grilled it, chopped it, etc. And it turned out, as we began to really say what is cooking, what does it mean to cook, there's a lot of science involved.

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

I think I can poach a pretty mean egg the old-fashioned way.

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

My whole life, I have been trying to cook an egg in the right way.

I am never satisfied until I can make a mathematical model of what I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. If I cannot, I do not understand.

If you think well, you cook well.

Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.

Patience is the secret to good food.

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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 skills of a chef.

Cooking is chemistry, really.

I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce, which takes four hours, from a recipe that's been refined over many years. I won't tell anybody what it is.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.

I love eggs. Eggs are probably one of the most versatile things we work with.