79 Oven Quotes

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To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do. — Phyllis Diller

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. — Yiddish Proverbs

You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit. — Wesley Snipes

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas. — Bill Vaughan

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house. — Michael Ruhlman

A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy. — Keith Floyd

In the house of the blacksmith, a wooden knife — Spanish Proverbs

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. - Milton Glaser

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. — Milton Glaser

Turn the cameltoe into casserole — 2 Chainz

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate. — Raymond Blanc

They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right. — Steven Wright

I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll make you a good chicken pot pie. — Si Robertson

My wrist deserve a shout out, 'I'm like what up wrist?' My stove deserve a shout out, 'I'm like what up stove?' — 2 Chainz

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. — Laurie Colwin

No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude! — Buddy Valastro

Short Oven Quotes

  • I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. — Steven Wright
  • Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life. — Daniel Handler
  • The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds. — James Randi
  • Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish. — Hugh Laurie
  • Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit. — Jesse Jackson
  • I'm more like an oven than a microwave. — Erykah Badu
  • I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots! — Michael Landon
  • I thought I was raptured up into the air today; turns out, it was just my gas oven exploding. — Emo Philips
  • I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it. — Lesley Boone
  • The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy. — Jamie Oliver

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Microwave Oven Quotes

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff. — Sayings

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. — Stephen Hawking

I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows? — Mitch Hedberg

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets! — Wayne Dyer

Men are like microwave ovens; they heat up immediately, but things start to boil over after about three minutes. Women are like conventional ovens; they take twenty minutes to heat up, but can go on cooking for hours. — Mardy Grothe

We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up. — Joan Ryan

The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice. — James Gleick

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven — Charles Petzold

I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell. — Douglas Coupland

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More Oven Quotes

...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew. — Dick Gregory

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven. — Barbara Kingsolver

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world. — Alan Bradley

The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she'd been and where she was going. Everything was fine. — Jennifer Crusie

Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done. — Gracie Allen

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven. — Erma Bombeck

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. — Jose Marti

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present. — Learned Hand

Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy. — Martha Stewart

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven. — April Winchell

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked? — Jessica Savitch

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely. — Regina Brett

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother? — Steven Morrissey

My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic. — Tyler Florence

Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat. — E. Merrill Root

At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's." — Louie Anderson

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked. — Delia Smith

Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world. — Melinda Gates

When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief. — Rachel Whiteread

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? — Kahlil Gibran

I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, 'Damn, that TV has 500 channels.' When I got older, it didn't have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees. — Felipe Esparza

The Jews talk about "never again."... You cannot say "Never again" to God because when he puts you in the oven, you're in one indeed!... "Never again" don't mean a damn thing when God get ready for you! — Louis Farrakhan

I can make a damn pork chop. My best dish is actually lasagna, which I do a couple times a year. My wife wishes I cooked a little bit more often, but I can put a frozen pizza in the oven and I make a good salad. — Ed Harris

Ooo, let’s see, I need to get my spicy barbecue sauce. Definitely some oven mitts, ‘cause he’s gonna be hot from being flame-broiled. I need to get a couple of them apple trees to make wood chips so the meat be nice and appley tasting. Give it that extra yumminess, ‘cause I don’t like that Daimon flavor. Ack! (Simi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. — Dean Koontz

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove. — Vernon L. Smith

Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits. — Malcolm X

The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits. — Peter Singer

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter. — Marc Chagall

Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt! — Robin Williams

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. — Studs Terkel

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