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In the end, your creativity — perhaps even your outrageousness — will determine the final result.

Bobby Flay

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
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Daughter Hard Mother Times
Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
BOBBY FLAY

Business Doors Focus Kitchen
Nobody believed the ‘Food Network’ could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They’ll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn’t true. ‘Food Network’ continues to get better and evolve.
BOBBY FLAY

Better Four Get Running
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 don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
BOBBY FLAY

Family History Long
In the end, your creativity — perhaps even your outrageousness — will determine the final result.
BOBBY FLAY

Creativity Ends Finals
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 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
When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
BOBBY FLAY

Burger Nuts People
Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
BOBBY FLAY

Corn Parent Summer
I can’t be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.
BOBBY FLAY

Cheeseburger Country Diets 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.
BOBBY FLAY

Football Thinking Weekend
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
Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.
BOBBY FLAY

Country Grilling Involved People Want
I don’t like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl – using only enough to glaze the leaves – then toss.
BOBBY FLAY

Dressing Enough Green Sides Toss
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
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 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.
BOBBY FLAY

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

Especially Opening Restaurants
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
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
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
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
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Flavor Perfect Smoke Soup
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

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