Kitchen Science Quotes

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

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational.

There will never be a right or wrong way to cook something, but there will always be a more informed way.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

You can't make a souffle rise twice.

Cooking is chemistry, really.

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.

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.

Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and 'Cooks' Questions' is for those people who want to find out more.