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Alton Brown

American, Entertainer

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Habits Always Based

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

- Alton Brown

Door Skin Heat

Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!

- Alton Brown

Wrong Gluttony Wasteful

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

- Alton Brown

Going Like Kind

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that.

- Alton Brown

Science Subjective Part

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

- Alton Brown

I Am Therefore Am

I grill, therefore I am.

- Alton Brown

Guy Costs Bill

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

- Alton Brown

Best May Part

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

- Alton Brown

Some Lot Tempt

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

- Alton Brown

Take Very Although

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

- Alton Brown

Thankful Big Happen

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.

- Alton Brown

Game Shift Detect

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.

- Alton Brown

Some Tuna Canned

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

- Alton Brown

Happen Very Took

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.

- Alton Brown

Understand Through About

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

- Alton Brown

Through Asking Attract

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.

- Alton Brown

Mob Scorsese Films

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

- Alton Brown

Television Like Still

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

- Alton Brown

Allow Making Replace

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

- Alton Brown

Heat Very Almost

I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.

- Alton Brown

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