Dave Grohl claims that food and cooking are best approached with a focus on simplicity and consistency rather than excessive intervention or constant checking.

“If you're looking, IT AIN'T COOKING.”

He expresses that the meal kit service provided by HelloFresh is simple enough for him to follow.

“Could Dendan follow them? I think he could. Of course. Of course. It's that simple.”

He prefers using a pellet smoker because it is easy and allows for set-it-and-forget-it cooking.

“Pellets are great because it's set it and forget it. You don't have to, you know, when we first got when the first smoker we got, we had to we had to control as a wood smoker and we had to sit there and manage the temperature and up and down, hot and cold and you know”

He argues that cooking shows should focus primarily on the food rather than the personality of the host.

“I didn't want anonymity per se too many cooking shows I thought weren't enough about the food so I wanted to make a show where the focus was first and foremost on food is why we're a black apron very shallow depth of field the only thing's in focus are the food”

Cooking shows should prioritize entertainment value over the technical proficiency of the host.

“At the end of the day, people want to be entertained. And it's nice if some of the food works out.”

He believes American Thanksgiving food is generally bland and inferior to other cuisines.

“Uh I'd say theirs is more like I mean, there's there's seasoned good flavored food here. But black people make it, not the whites. Black people do season the [ __ ] out of their food. That's true.”

She believes American Thanksgiving food is flavorless and unappealing.

“Their actual food items, I've heard, >> are so much superior because we don't have flavor in our food, which is why I don't I I don't enjoy Thanksgiving dinner. Bland bland >> enjoyed Thanksgiving. Flavorless.”

Burnt cookies are not desirable and people who prefer them are mistaken.

“yeah nobody wants to burn cookies yeah there's like a scale there was a scale that somebody put up a burnt cookie scale you know what i mean like one it was like a one to ten thing somebody put up on twitter and and the amount of people that liked it closer to burnt made me sick”

She occasionally prefers cooking cookies until they are burnt.

“in the philippines when you cook a cookie do you cook it to the point where it's just black charcoal um sometimes because we like it”