When I’m hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
BOBBY FLAYI looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen’s, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.
More Bobby Flay Quotes
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A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.
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I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing.
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I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
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Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
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When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
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I can’t be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.
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I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink – some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.
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I probably use my chef’s knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I’m not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.
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I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything – vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I’m always on the hunt for great honey.
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I don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
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I can’t grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Don’t bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs.
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I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
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If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She’s going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she’s around it all the time.
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One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It’s brutal. And there’s a trophy.
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It’s important to have balance in your life between work and play.
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