Top 66 Dave Myers Quotes

I always knew I could be a bit on the greedy side; I love cooking and eating and there in front of me was the evidence which I would have been daft to ignore. I could see visually where the fat was lying, basically all around my internal organs.

It’s funny how much of the ‘old times’ are still rooted in modern America.

In Scotland there’s just some of the best produce. I mean Argyll and Bute has a longer coastline than France.

By the time I graduated, I’d lost both parents and 23 was a young age to deal with a double loss like that. I felt rootless.

I was convinced I had a giant brain tumour. I thought, ‘I don’t believe this. It’s like a bad episode of Brookside.’ That’s when I knew I didn’t want to die. When the chips were down I thought, ‘It’s not my time yet.’ I really wanted to live and be happy.

I’m partial to American pancakes – they’re thick and as big as a dinner plate.

The nicest thing people can say about us, is, ‘I turn the telly on for half an hour and go off with me mates, having a laugh.’

We do things like a curry in a pressure cooker in 12 minutes. When you’re on a diet you’re hungry so you have a tendency to pick. So hopefully, if you can cook a meal quickly, you won’t reach for the crisps.

It was quite weird when we met, because we were both the ones who cooked in our own groups. When I was married, I did the cooking at home, same as Si did. It was like a parallel universe. We were both born hungry, weren’t we?

I think sometimes producers forget that people like interesting things. It doesn’t always have to be ‘Big Brother‘ or toil and torment.

When we’re away filming, Si’s the one who’s more likely to find a club and go dancing.

We had already decided to film in the U.K. before Covid was an issue and stopped foreign travel, so we filmed here through choice not circumstance.

At this market in Tel Aviv, we put together a mezze platter and we had Syrian, Iraqi, Bulgarian, Venezuelan, Iranian, all doing something very different with chicken. All these different cultures had taken the same product and made this fantastic cuisine, it was very exciting.

I live in Container City at Trinity Buoy Wharf when I’m in London.

The Mojave Desert was plus 50. Now, I’ve cooked duck eggs at 50 degrees celsius. You can imagine what it’s like on a bike.

My work is my passion so it’s impossible to imagine doing all the things I love if I couldn’t see – riding my bike, reading an autocue or preparing dishes.

I’m very excited about Gloria Hunniford because she’s somebody who’s had 70 years in showbusiness. So having her coming in, and being able to cook for someone we have great respect for, I am looking forward to very much.

We had wonderful wood-fired chicken in Dallas. We asked if they had a vegetarian option and the guy just said, ‘We have chicken.’

If you’ve got a daft idea, it’s probably good to have a go.

On Route 66, a lot of it, it’s very transient. There’s an awful lot of really, really bad food, you can’t ignore that.

We have an older following with ‘Hairy Bikers,’ but ‘Strictly‘ crosses all generations.

I had a bright yellow jumper that my mother knitted me and I used to call it my scrambled egg jumper.

My dad used to eat raw tripe soaked in malt vinegar when I was a kid.

I’m quite happy with something foodie or cookbooks – I love cookbooks.

With an old broom handle, flour, water and egg you can make the most amazing pasta.

I like turkey with all the trimmings, bread sauce, cranberry sauce.

Keto diet, you are putting your body into ketosis which is never a good thing. It’s a massive stress on your kidneys and liver which is why on that diet you have to drink a lot of water.

We’re always asked the same three questions. If we’re on our own we get, ‘Where’s your mate, then?’ If we’re in a car it’s, ‘Where’s your bike, then?’ And if you’re having a meal, we get, ‘You’re not cooking, then?’

We were filming in America and I noticed we were casting shadows like Walnut Whips! The sensible thing to do was go on a diet, so we started rewriting recipes and we’re better cooks because of it.

At one point I’m doing belly-dancing, big mirror-ball in me belly button with couple of tassels and me head on fire and I thought, ‘I could lose two stone.’

I find that quite amusing – I used to get Deborah Kerr her sausage rolls.

I’ve spent 35 years sitting on a motorbike in the rain. It’s not had too good an effect on my bones.

I was quite successful as a make-up artist for 23 years, doing a lot of prosthetics.

Romanians love country dancing. At Christmas, you go house to house, and they play guitar and drum and a violin and everybody‘s on their feet – well, it’s better than watching telly.

I used to love scrambled eggs when I was a little boy.

I started work as a makeup artist at the BBC, which was a vibrant, exciting and caring place.

I live in France a lot of the time, in the Loire Valley.

Strictly’ is a journey. I haven‘t danced before but I’m putting the practice hours in, whether it shows or not.

I like Paul Smith suits and he told me he didn’t do suits for fat blokes, so it was my aim to get into one of those.

I think people have at least two careers in them, so we decided to turn our hobbies of motorbikes, cooking and chatting into a living.

It’s about having a balanced diet; I think if we swayed the balance towards veggie, we’d all be better off.

We wanted to do our own programme. It’s cooking, chatting to people and writing books. Like brothers, we never run out of anything to say.

A haggis maker in Dumfries called Stuart Houston was one of my favourite ports of call – we made some lovely haggis tempura.

We like to play a game. You go into a diner and see if you can order breakfast without having to reply to a question. It’s impossible. There’s a huge amount of choice in how you’d like your eggs, your coffee, even how toasted you’d like your toast to be!

Si’s a red wine fanatic; I’m a white wine fanatic. Which is good, because it means you get a bottle to yourself!

Lionel Blair came bouncing up once and said, ‘I love you two.’

I was at art school for five years.

We looked back on what we used to eat and thought, ‘That’s not cool.’ We had to move with the times and that meant we had to shed weight and not get sick.

It was mid-life crisis time and you can’t have more of a mid-life crisis than going off on a motorbike.

I always lose weight by cutting all the carbs out.

We were starting to get old before our time. I’m 10 years older than Kingy, but we’d both begun to shuffle, the knees were sore.

I used to go fishing on Roa Island as a boy and it seemed a good idea to move there.

My main home is in Morecambe Bay on a little island called Roa, where there are 13 houses, a lifeboat station, a boat club and a cafe.

My dad, Jim, was 55 when I was born.

We didn’t want to become professional Northerners.

Barrow, where I live, is a traditional town that still has some heavy industry, but the jobs are more sedentary than in our fathers‘ day.

We’ve done some stand-alone cookbooks that have been very successful, like ‘Great Curries,’ ‘Perfect Pies,’ ‘Meat Feasts,’ so why not ‘Chicken & Egg?’

As a chef my sense of taste and smell are extremely important. But of all the senses, sight is the one I’d fear losing most.

I love Keith Floyd – I think he inspired people to cook.

Instead of a sandwich, you’re much better off enjoying a delicious and filling supper of around 400 calories – and that will see you right through until bedtime.

When I find myself worrying, I have to give myself a severe talking to.

It makes sense to eat more veggies ecologically, and health-wise.

I love sushi!

When you’re on the road a lot like we are, it’s hard to eat sensibly and all too easy to stoke up on fatty foods.

I’ve just turned 60 and, looking back, I realise all the time I spent worrying I achieved nothing.

Of the pair of us, I’m the one who’ll go out and have dinner, and Si’s the one who’ll go out dancing.