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That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Cooked Create Does Dry Fact Focus Goal Great Hide Just Meat Most Needs Recipes Skin State Stuffing Turkey Ultimate Ultimate Goal Way

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Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Adds Because Bird Cooking Cooks Evil Longer Mass Stuffing Will

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If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Add Bake Dish Dressing Evil Love Out Oven Pan Really Some Stuffing Though Turkey Until Wait You

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Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!

~Alton Brown

Topics: Bird Cook Designed Does Door Evil Heat Just Keep Lets Longer Means Meat Nothing Out Oven Skin Stuff Take Touch Turkey Why Will

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I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

~Alton Brown

Topics: College First First Time Food Italy Semester Small Small Town Spent Tasted Time Town Truly Where

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'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Cook Cookbook Cooking Dark Day Eat Elbows Ever Folks Follow Got How Interested Jeff John Like Me Men Only Outlaw Over Path Pushed Read Really Revelation Sink Smith Understands

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Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Eat Everything Food Only Part Science Subjective You

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Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Bad Basic Culinary Molecular Sound Technique Useless Without

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I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Goofy Home Like Really Teacher

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I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Actually Asking Attract Cook Cooking Did Efforts Found Fun Girl Improved Odds Offered Only Opposite Opposite Sex Out Over Radically Sex Simply Through Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: July 30th, 1962

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