Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
BOBBY FLAYTake risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
BOBBY FLAYNothing goes perfectly, especially when you’re opening a restaurant.
BOBBY FLAYI 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 FLAYCook 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 FLAYI 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 FLAYObviously, 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 FLAYEven 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 FLAYIt’s important to have balance in your life between work and play.
BOBBY FLAYI still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
BOBBY FLAYGrilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.
BOBBY FLAYI can’t be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.
BOBBY FLAYOne thing you don’t want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.
BOBBY FLAYGrilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
BOBBY FLAYI 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 FLAYBrushes 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 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.
BOBBY FLAY