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When I’m on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, ’cause that’s who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

Bobby Flay

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you’re opening a restaurant.
BOBBY FLAY

Especially Opening Restaurants
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Games Happen Holiday Men Pursuit
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 FLAY

Cook Hire Hiring Restaurant Want
Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.
BOBBY FLAY

Cooking Enough New Something
You can’t chase everybody on the Internet who’s saying stuff about you, that’s for sure.
BOBBY FLAY

Internet Say Stuff Sure
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Morning Open Sleep Two Week Years
I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn’t really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business.
BOBBY FLAY

Home Jobs School
My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
BOBBY FLAY

Location Parks Space
When I’m on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, ’cause that’s who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.
BOBBY FLAY

Football Thinking Weekend
I don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
BOBBY FLAY

Family History Long
Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don’t, you’re dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero’s heat by pairing it with sweet food.
BOBBY FLAY

Challenges Order Sweet
Everybody says, ‘I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,’ but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It’s very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner – it just happens to have grates. You shouldn’t be intimidated by it.
BOBBY FLAY

Common Sense Simple Thinking
I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it’s much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.
BOBBY FLAY

Fire Flames Grilling Intimated Successful
Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they’re not intimidated by them. If I’m doing ‘Boy Meets Grill,’ and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.
BOBBY FLAY

Boys Home Successful
Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
BOBBY FLAY

Inspirational Mistake Success
I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it’s the flame, maybe it’s the big grills, maybe they’ve had some bad childhood experiences .. but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.
BOBBY FLAY

Childhood Experience Flames People Thinking
I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They’re incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
BOBBY FLAY

Holiday Nice Sweet
There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.
BOBBY FLAY

Friendly Hurt Team
Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.
BOBBY FLAY

Country Grilling Involved People Want
Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.
BOBBY FLAY

Homestores Oil Pay Sauce
Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
BOBBY FLAY

Cooking Fishing Hamburgers
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Grilling Home Steaks Tongs Vegetables
I 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.
BOBBY FLAY

First Handicap Job Look Photo Remember
I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
BOBBY FLAY

High School School Work
It’s important to have balance in your life between work and play.
BOBBY FLAY

Balance Important Play
I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.
BOBBY FLAY

Country Thinking Quality
When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
BOBBY FLAY

Burger Nuts People

When I’m on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, ’cause that’s who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

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