Tom Junod Quotes

I'm bad at baking.

I'm a very bad baker.

I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

I've always been hooked on baking.

Literally nobody bakes in my family.

I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and I'm a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

I love cooking and baking.

My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.

The kids are really great at baking cupcakes, cookies, of course - that kind of stuff - but I love delegating responsibilities for dinner so you have them picking herbs, or I have plastic knives for them so they're learning sort of how to chop. It's pretty great.

Like turning potatoes or making a bearnaise sauce by hand, forming a cornet - essentially a DIY pastry bag - from parchment paper feels like one of those things culinary students do once or twice and then never again.

Desserts are my life - making them, eating them, and teaching others how to prepare them perfectly.

I do not know how I developed the interest for baking. If I am not shooting, I head back home and start baking my favourite cakes and cookies.

I'm a good cook, but I can't bake.

I'm not heavily into baking.

I'm not a baker, and I don't know anything about baking, and I don't claim to.

My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating her endless variations on delicious tarts for dinner every night is that this dough can be used for just about anything - sweet or savory.

I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.

Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

I love watching programmes about food. I always think, 'When I'm old, I'll take up baking.' There's something calming about watching the recipe and thinking, 'I'm going to make that' - and it's never going to happen.

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

I love cooking... I'm quite domestic.

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