Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

You need to either create a slurry in a cold liquid, which also works with cornstarch, or you've got to do your gravy in a very wide pan and kind of scatter the flour over the top and then very quickly whisk it in.

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him

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The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch.