Michael Symon Quotes

I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe.

I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.

When I studied at the Parisian cookery school Le Cordon Bleu, making shortcrust pastry was one of the first techniques I learned.

I always loved cake. I loved the chemistry of it.

Baking is my favourite.

I'm pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I've finally learned how to manhandle it just enough.

Cake is a very beautiful thing.

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

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.

It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.

Every cook I knows loves to make pizza.

I do not like a quiche with wet, undercooked pastry underneath, and that is that.

Can you braid three strands? Then you can make babkallah. The very idea of babkallah came about because the recipe avoids the complicating twisting technique that gives babka its signature swirl.

For the life of me, I could not make a good-looking ice-cream cone.

You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.

I make unbelievable pizza.

I love to bake. Cakes are my specialty - they have to be moist and sugary.

I love making apple strudel.

I've started baking. Having my hands deep in dough keeps them away from my phone.

As most people will tell you, the best pies have the best crusts. It has to be tender, flaky, and full of flavor. That is the key to a great pie.

My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery.

Making cake is one of the easiest things in the world.

I like to think of bread as really bland cake.

I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

I love to see the smiles on people's faces when you cook for them. I love to go to different restaurants. I want to cook because I know this acting isn't going to last forever, and I want something to fall back on. It's another way to make people smile.