Article image

Add a Dash of Laughter to Your Day With These Cooking Quotes

Cooking can be a beautiful thing. More than just a source of nourishment, it can also relieve stress, enhance mindfulness, and improve self-esteem. But not everyone is a Food Network-level chef. Let’s put it this way — if faced with Gordon Ramsay, many of us would find ourselves on the receiving end of one of his famous zingers.

It’s easy enough to make a number of simple errors in the kitchen that can result in disaster: mistaking salt for sugar, getting distracted with the broiler on, or attempting an overly ambitious recipe that ends up looking like a classic Pinterest fail.

Cooking can also feel intimidating, and weeknight dinners may resemble something a toddler would eat for lunch more often than not. But that doesn’t mean we can’t see the humor in it, nor does it mean we should abandon our culinary endeavors altogether. These funny quotes about cooking will add a pinch of laughter to your next kitchen creation — even if it’s just a bag of microwaved popcorn.

I cook with wine, and sometimes I even add it to the food.
W.C. Fields

Share Quote

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
Cyra McFadden

Share Quote

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.
Michael Ruhlman

Share Quote

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Shirley Conran

Share Quote

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin

Share Quote

Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?
Julia Child

Share Quote

My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles

Share Quote

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.
Ina Garten

Share Quote

I’ll give you an idea of how bad my cooking is. Last Christmas the family chipped in together and bought me an oven that flushes.
Phyllis Diller

Share Quote

I know I’m a lousy cook, but I never realized how bad until the other night when I caught the dog calling Chicken Delight.
Joan Rivers

Share Quote

If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it … If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.
Paul Bocuse

Share Quote

I don’t even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.
Katherine Cebrian

Share Quote

Featured image credit: Coprid/ iStock

Author image
About the Author
Nicole Villeneuve
Nicole is a writer, thrift store lover, and group-chat meme spammer based in Ontario, Canada.
Play more header background
Play more icon
Daily Question
Fill in the blank: "___ is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been." - David Bowie

More Inspiration

happiness theme icon

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

separator icon
W.B. Yeats
motivation theme icon

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

separator icon
Anaïs Nin
hope theme icon

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

separator icon
Herb Brooks
love theme icon

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

separator icon
Søren Kierkegaard
wisdom theme icon

At the end of the day, you are enough exactly as you are.

separator icon
Meghan Markle
happiness theme icon

It is so easy to give, so exquisitely rewarding.

separator icon
John Steinbeck
motivation theme icon

To fight unhappiness one must first expose it.

separator icon
Simone de Beauvoir
hope theme icon

I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

separator icon
Viola Davis
love theme icon

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

separator icon
Brené Brown
wisdom theme icon

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

separator icon
Sophocles
happiness theme icon

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

separator icon
Leo Tolstoy