• The Original Chick-Fil-A Tagline Will Make You Cringe

    Chick-fil-A may be America's sweetheart now (sorry, Wendy's!), but they've actually been around a long, long time — over 50 years. Though Chick-fil-A's signature chicken sandwich hasn't seen much change over the decades, the spelling of the chain's name, along with its logo, sure has.

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  • Is It Bad To Put Hot Food In The Fridge?

    You know that it's important to chill food in the refrigerator once you're done with your hot meal, but how soon can you actually put your leftovers away? Do you have to give them a cool-down period on your counter before stashing them? Is it actually a bad idea to put hot food in the fridge?

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  • The Weird Ingredient That Will Rescue Cheap Wine

    Thanks to the vast selection of wine on shelves, you may have to do a lot of taste testing to find the ones you like. But the good news is if you happen to head home with a cheap bottle of wine that doesn't quite do it for you, there may be a way to save it.

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  • Ina Garten's Honest Cooking Confession Will Surprise You

    Cooking can be hard, especially if you're venturing beyond pasta with jarred tomato sauce or ramen noodles, but Ina Garten somehow makes it all look easy. On her Food Network television show, Barefoot Contessa, and in her cookbooks, Garten turns elaborate dinner parties into effortless affairs.

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  • How To Crack An Egg Perfectly Every Time

    You might feel a bit sheepish Googling something as simple as "the best way to crack an egg," but you shouldn't. In this day and age, thanks to the Food Network, the Cooking Channel, and the rise of the celebrity chef, you've probably seen a dozen different egg-cracking methods.

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  • The Reason Your Mouth Itches After Eating Some Fruits

    Eating fresh produce is a fantastic (and tasty) way to round out a healthy diet, but what if your favorite peaches, apples, or plums make your mouth or throat itchy? While it's natural to wonder if you're developing a true food allergy, it's likely something called oral allergy syndrome.

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  • Why Does Chocolate Turn White?

    Perhaps you've unwrapped a piece of last year's Easter candy and noticed that your chocolate bunny has a slight white or grayish coloring to it. This mysterious color change can be a little perplexing, and there's usually one or two culprits at play behind chocolate turning white.

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  • The Trick To Keeping Brown Sugar Soft

    It's happened to you before. You've stumbled across an amazing chocolate chip cookie recipe. You scroll the ingredient list and see that it calls for brown sugar. You know it's in the cupboard somewhere, and after a few minutes of searching, there it is. There's only one problem.

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  • The Best Way To Cut A Watermelon

    When you're looking for a way to quench your thirst and water just isn't enough, watermelon is a great alternative. Watermelon is made up of 92 percent water and with the extra natural sweetness, it's a great way to hydrate your body and fuel it with nutrients.

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  • Sophie Flay Dishes On Her Relationship With Dad, Bobby

    Sophie Flay is starring in a new Food Network show, The Flay List, with her famous chef dad Bobby. While we're excited to learn about the delicious local dishes they'll be featuring on the show, we're most excited to hear more about the relationship between Bobby Flay and his daughter.

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  • Why Drinking Coffee Might Actually Make You Tired

    How many times have you grabbed a cup of coffee first thing in the morning? Or rolled through a drive-thru and the barista already knew what your order would be and had it ready for you? If so, you're not alone — a whopping 83 percent of U.S. adults drink coffee.

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  • Steady Diet Of Chips And Fries Causes Teen To Go Blind

    When you were growing up, your parents likely insisted that you eat a variety of healthy foods. As a child, it's possible you resisted, resulting in a classic picky-eater scenario that meant your parents tried to accommodate you while still attempting to feed you the foods your body needed.

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  • Celebrity Chefs Who Hate The Pumpkin Spice Trend

    Once summer is here, can pumpkin spice season be far behind? Seriously, every year Starbucks and the like seem to push out their pumpkin spice offerings earlier and earlier and let it linger on later and later, so pumpkin spice season now apparently runs from August to January.

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  • Here's What You Can Substitute For Cornmeal

    Nothing complements a bowl of chili quite like a slice of fresh cornbread. If you find yourself coming up short when searching for cornmeal in the back of your pantry, it's understandable that the cornbread may not happen. Luckily, there are some shortcuts you can take when you're out of cornmeal.

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  • Can You Eat Bay Leaves?

    Bay leaves are well-known for a couple of reasons — the flavor they impart to your favorite dishes and the fact that you should discard the bay leaves before serving. If you forget to extract said leaf from your pot of stew, though, are you in danger if you accidentally eat it?

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  • The Trick To Reheating A Baked Potato Without Drying It Out

    If you've ever taken a leftover​ baked potato out of the fridge and simply thrown it in the microwave, well, you probably know the disappointment that follows when the microwave dings. Aside from giving them new life as hash browns or mashed potatoes, there's not much you can do... or is there?

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  • The One Reason You Might Want To Skip Costco's Beef

    Costco has just about everything you could ever want, including some of the biggest packs of fresh steaks you've ever had the opportunity to snatch up. While some find it too big a hit to the wallet to bulk buy prime cuts of pricey beef even at warehouse prices, there's another factor to consider.

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  • The Real Reason Popeyes Ran Out Of Chicken Sandwiches

    When Popeyes launched their fried chicken sandwich on August 12, it got a lot of positive attention — their Twitter announcement got more than 31,000 likes, which is pretty impressive considering that their posts usually get less than 400.

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  • You've Been Stirring Your Tea All Wrong

    You've most likely done it every time. You pour the tea into your cup, add milk, honey, sugar, or whatever else your tea-loving heart desires and then you place your spoon inside. You begin to twirl it around. Every now and then the spoon dings the side of the cup.

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  • Is It Really Safe To Microwave Wax Paper?

    While we've occasionally experimented with cooking food in the microwave, we usually just use our microwave to reheat leftovers, and many of us rely on wax paper to prevent a mess in doing so. But is it really safe to use wax paper in the microwave?

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  • Taco Bell Is Killing Off These Menu Items

    Remember how excited you were when the fast food wizards at Taco Bell said they would be making taco shells out of Doritos? That was way back in 2012 and naturally, people lit up social media with their exclamations of joy over the Doritos Locos Taco.

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  • The Secret Ingredient You Should Be Using In Your Chili

    Chili is one dish for which it seems like everybody and their dog has their very own recipe, and that recipe, of course, owes its success to a super-secret ingredient that makes all the difference. Most of them sound pretty decent — beer, sriracha, ghost peppers.

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  • Whole Foods CEO Says Plant-Based Meats Aren't Healthy

    Plant-based meats have certainly taken off. A couple of brands have even found their way into mainstream fast-food restaurants — Burger King recently debuted its Impossible Whopper from Impossible Foods, while KFC is dipping their toes into Beyond Meat territory with Beyond Fried Chicken.

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