Alton: In the history of the kitchen there are many love stories, but none quite as poignant or powerful as that of salty and sweet.

Cookie Customer: They're awesome! How much?
Alton: How much? Don't worry, friends. Awesomeness is free! Not to mention... Good Eats!

Alton: It's the salt that provides the molecular mojo.

Mary Puffin: That's a pie crust promise: easily made, easily broken!

Mary Puffin: You always complicate things that are really quite simple!
Alton: It's... what I do.

Mary Puffin: Tastes sweet... and sour... and not the least bit bitter!
Alton: Not the least bit bitter! Okay, tell me, little Missy Puffinstuf, how do you explain that?
Mary Puffin: I would like to make one thing quite clear: I never explain anything.
Alton: Well, if I copped that attitude, I wouldn't have my own show, on TV, now, would I?

Mary Puffin: I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! (She flies off, laughing evilly.)
Alton: You know, I just... never made that connection.

Alton: Finishing salts are kind of like... edible bling, if you will.

When the camera looks down into a pot of sugar syrup boiling on the stove, the viewer can clearly see that all of the stove's knobs are set to the "off" position; the stove, of course, is a prop and likely controlled from elsewhere, or the boiling liquid is a special effect.

At one point, Alton mocks his guest Mary Puffin by calling her “Pufnstuf”. H. R. Pufnstuf was a children's television show that aired from 1969 – 1971, around the time Alton would be watching a lot of Saturday morning television. The character Pufnstuf, a dragon, protected a young boy from the evil powers of Witchypoo, which somewhat foreshadows Mary Puffin's true nature.

The character Mary Puffin, who dresses in archaic English nanny/governess attire, carries a parasol, and flies, is a sendup of Mary Poppins. Author Pamela Travers published the first Mary Poppins in 1934; it went on to film and Broadway adaptations, both highly successful. Other books followed; all tell stories about a nanny with mysterious powers who can fly on a broom, and who brings adventure to the Banks family and their neighbors in London.

Insulted by Alton, Mary reveals her true nature with when she tells him, “I'll get you my pretty! And you're little dog, too!” Margaret Hamilton first uttered this famous line in her role as the Wicked Witch of the West. She threatened protagonist Dorothy Gale with this line; Dorothy was wearing magical shoes that could transport the wearer anywhere they wished to go, and the Witch coveted these. Since Dorothy (acting on the advice of the Good Witch of the North) took them from the body of the Wicked Witch of the East, the Wicked Witch of the West apparently felt entitled. Her magical powers – the ability to fly with the aid of a broom among them – made her a formidable opponent until Dorothy chanced upon a key and fatal weakness. Those powers somewhat resemble the powers wielded by magical nanny Mary Poppins, leading Alton to draw a parallel.