Basic Cooking Quotes

The most followed chef is Delia Smith. She is my age and doesn't try to be entertaining, she encourages people to learn the basics.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

I cannot cook to save my life - I microwave everything or it's simply scrambled eggs on toast.

I'm a horrendous cook; my mum does my meals. I can only cook beans on toast with cheese.

It should be that every child, when they leave school, can do ten meals, because when they leave home, they've got to be able to eat healthily. Blow the science of it and everything else. They've just got to be able to know what's good for them, how to buy it, and how to make a few dishes that they enjoy and don't cost too much.

I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

My cooking style is really simple. Not a lot of ingredients, but all good quality, so you don't have to do that much to them.

I'm gonna open a small restaurant on the beach in Mexico. We're only gonna have a few tables, and we're only gonna cook what's fresh that day. We're gonna get back to the basics... Real food for real people.

Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.

I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

A burger is something anyone can do, just follow the rules.

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.

I make egg whites... that's about it.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.