Ted Allen Chopped Quotes

#1. I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

Ted Allen

#2. It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.

Ted Allen

#3. If I wouldn't have looked under the hood, I'd have never noticed the problem. But as far as I know, the problem didn't exist before I opened the hood. So did I cause the problem by becoming aware of it, or was it already there regardless of my ignorance?

Jarod Kintz

#4. When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!

Ted Allen

#5. Contrary to Western evangelicalism's obsession with the individual, discipleship is and always was a group project. No one in the New Testament followed independent of other followers. - Steve Murrell, Wikichurch

Ed Stetzer

#6. Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't..

Iyanla Vanzant

#7. He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. I can see you is not born last week.

Roald Dahl

#9. The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible ...

Egon Friedell

#10. I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

Lauren Oliver

#11. One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.

Ted Allen

#12. God gave me a second chance. I am so very glad with what is going on with my career, but I want to be a success in my relationship with my children.

El DeBarge

#13. Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

Louis C.K.

#14. Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

Ted Allen