Top 19 Basting Quotes
#1. You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.
Grant Wood
#2. In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.
Jennifer Lee
#3. I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
Maggie Stiefvater
#4. Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#5. 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
#6. One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
Padma Lakshmi
#7. We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.
Winston Churchill
#8. Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.
R. Kelly
#9. What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#10. For long I could not close my ears that night: I lay listening, I knew not what for. A scare was on me that made me dislike the dark,
J.M. Barrie
#11. I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made up constellations. I made a Bear and a Goat but maybe not where they are supposed to be, I made some for the animals that once were, the ones I know about.
Peter Heller
#12. Lightwoods," Magnus said. "They always have to have the last word.
Cassandra Clare
#13. The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
Walter Kirn
#15. No matter what people tell you when your heart is broken, there's nothing that really makes it feel better than time and space.
Demi Lovato
#18. It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#19. The idea that at each successive moment he was deeper into the Sahara than he had been the moment before, that he was leaving behind all familiar things, this constant consideration kept him in a state of pleasurable agitation.
Paul Bowles
