Who doesn’t love a good buffet? With fixed prices and the freedom to pile your plate high with as much food as you want, they can offer great value for your money. Americans with big appetites love the buffet concept, and restaurants often lose money with those folks. On the other hand, light eaters like myself are more the target audience. We pay the set price and hardly eat anything, relatively speaking, resulting in a positive cash flow for the restaurant.

14 Foods You Should Completely Avoid at a Buffet

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Fast food chains often have secrets about their food preparation processes that might surprise customers, and Subway is no exception. A recent TikTok video by user @tamannaagicha has gone viral, revealing some concerning practices at the popular sandwich chain—when it comes to the restaurant she works at, at least. The video exposes how certain items on the Subway menu are prepared and handled.

A Subway Employee Shares The 'Worst Things To Get' At The Chain, Including Microwaved Meatballs, Old Soups And More

Few symbols are as widely recognizable as the golden arches, and few foods as universally beloved as the McDonald's french fry. Many have come for the crown, but none has succeeded in unseating the reigning champ. Salty, hot, and crisp...It's practically impossible to eat just one. People around the world love McDonald's fries, and part of what they love is how thin and crispy they are. But the thinner a french fry is, the harder it will be to reheat without overcooking, and many have struggled to recreate that first fry texture. A large potato wedge can go back in the oven and still have a soft fluffy center, but skinny fries have a narrow reheat window before they're more like tough chips, or just plain hard and burnt.

How To Reheat McDonald's Fries For First-Fry Flavor

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Stacker researched the history of popular foods, from Jell-O salads to Salisbury steak, and highlighted 15 that are no longer widely consumed.

15 formerly popular foods in America that are rarely eaten today

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Whether frozen pizza if your meal of choice or you’re simply trying to make it to payday, this freezer aisle […]

These 7 Frozen Pizza Brands Are Actually Pretty Tasty

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They are the unsung heroes of dinnerware.

We Found So Many Pasta Bowls to Replace All of Your Dinnerware — Starting at $2

We often think of scrambled eggs as the culinary equivalent of a weighted blanket: when we're a bit tired and need comfort and support, they're there for us. The ingredients for a basic scramble are almost always on hand, and they're so simple and quick to make that most of us can put together a decent plate of them even at our worst, whether it's first thing in the morning before the coffee is ready or the wee hours of the night after too much partying. In either case, you know you'll get a soothing dose of nourishment with very little effort.

Add These Ingredients To Your Scrambled Eggs And Thank Us Later

Inexpensive and undeniably convenient, canned fruits are a fantastic food item to keep in your pantry. Whether you're in need of a quick snack or want to turn up the flavor in numerous recipes, they're more than ready to help fill in the gaps — but only if you keep them stocked. This isn't very hard to do, luckily: Canned fruit is not perishable like fresh fruit, so there's no need to use it straight away. You can simply put the cans in your pantry and leave them there until you find you need or want to use them. What's not to love?

13 Canned Fruits You Should Have In Your Pantry

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You're absolutely stuffed after enjoying an incredible meal and even though you'd love one more bite of that Chinese take-out, another slice of pizza, or another helping of spaghetti it's not to be. Now it's time to pull out the Tupperware and put those leftovers in the refrigerator. If you're...

Can Hot Leftovers Go Directly in the Fridge or Freezer?

Grocery store planners are tricksy. Their sales tactics are so good that you'll put the extra items into your cart with your own two hands before you even realize what you're doing. It's like you've fallen victim to some sort of hypnotic mist that's being piped into the grocery aisles via the store's public address system. There is no real hypnosis at play of course, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of tricks afoot. Fortunately, Understanding Grocery Store Marketing Psychology 101 helps you avoid being hoodwinked.

The Trap Everyone Falls For With Grocery Store Sales

If you're laboring over a package of fresh chicken, wondering if you should wash it or not, the science is pretty clear. While raw chicken can cause food-borne illness, particularly cold E coli if consumed without cooking thoroughly, washing chicken before cooking won't make it any safer. The USDA suggests that the opposite is true and that washing your chicken could increase the risk of foodborne illness via cross-contamination.

Should You Rinse Chicken Before Cooking It?

Air fryers have been a sensation since their popularity skyrocketed in the late 2010s. Offering the ability to cook countless foods in a shorter time span than a deep fryer or conventional oven — and with much less oil — numerous home chefs have discovered the appliance's benefits. Given air fryers can create both convenient and healthy meals, there's an ever-growing list of foods that they can make successfully. In fact, you can use your air fryer to prepare a variety of different meat products, as well.

The Best And Worst Types Of Meat To Cook In The Air Fryer

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We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing. As an Indian-vegetarian, I have fond memories of Indo-Chinese gobi manchurian at community potlucks, rare plates of aloo gobi (when my South Indian Mother would serve North Indian food), and snacking on raw florets dipped in Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing with my dad. Since then, I’ve given up cauliflower. Not because I wanted to. You see, I have a chronic GI illness and the unsuspecting cruciferous vegetable has a rather rude ability to land me in the hospital.

This $4 Bag of Potato Chips Is the Best I’ve Ever Had

Meatloaf is a classic staple of American cuisine. The dish's combination of meat with egg and bread crumbs (or oats or ground crackers) is both delicious and economical.The food has its roots in the scrappy and thrift-minded cuisine of Great Depression (think water pie), and was a standard in mid-century cooking. Of course, meatloaf simply wouldn't be the same without the iconic, glossy topping of ketchup. In fact, the recipe was found on many ketchup containers in the 1950s as a keen way to make use of the tomato-based condiment. The two foods have become inextricably linked, with ketchup being the default topping for meatloaf. And it's easy to see why.

Why Meatloaf Is Topped With Ketchup

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Maybe it's just me, but it's not summer until I get to eat crab cakes! Don't let this recipe intimitate you! It's really not difficult, just takes a little bit of prep time in the fridge.

Delicious Crab Cakes!

Softened or "room temperature" butter is an essential ingredient in baking, typically creamed with sugar as the first step in making cakes, slices, muffins, and cookies. It's also a crucial element in creating deliciously fluffy buttercream frosting. But as any home baker will know, transforming a rock hard block of butter into something more squidgy is easier said than done. Soften the butter too little, and it won't blend with the sugar, ultimately creating dense and heavy bakes. Soften it too much, on the other hand, and it will give you a greasy, loose batter with a flat, soggy result.

Mary Berry's Go-To Technique To Soften Butter Quickly

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One Walmart shopper is issuing a warning against buying meat at the massive retail chain—but the reason why isn’t strictly tied to Walmart. It seems that customers at stores such as Walmart believe it's acceptable to grab perishable items, such as meat or dairy, and then place them on any available shelf if they decide they no longer want them.

Walmart customer shares why they will never shop for meat at the store leaving viewers torn

Some like it smothered in a robust Bolognese or tossed with a simple fresh tomato sauce. Others like it swirled in a creamy spinach sauce or mixed with pungent garlic and anchovies. However you like it best, there’s no denying that pasta is one of the most popular dinner choices. And for good reason. It’s fast, simple and delicious and just about everyone loves it. But have you ever noticed that pasta at a restaurant just tastes better than homemade? Well, there’s a reason for that, and it’s not necessarily that chefs are adding more salt or fat. In fact, there are simple techniques (and a little culinary know-how) that can help you replicate restaurant-quality pasta at home.

Why Pasta Tastes Better at Restaurants, According to a Former Line Cook

Cranking up the grill is one of the best ways to cook — you don't need to worry about a messy kitchen or turning the oven on when it's a hot day. Plus, there is something about that slightly-charred flavor that adds a new element when cooking up some burgers. But there is some technique involved, so you have to know exactly how to do it if you want to grill like a master. Otherwise, you could be left with burgers that are too cooked on the outside and raw in the middle, or just overly dry throughout.

What's The Best Temperature To Grill Burgers At, Really?

Tofu is kind of the bomb. It magically sponges up the flavors of anything it's cooked with. Its texture allows it to replace meat in dishes like General Tso's chicken and Salisbury steak. Plus, it's filled with calcium, iron and all sorts of other good-for-you stuff. The only thing this miracle creation doesn't have going for it is a long shelf life once you crack its package open. You have three, maybe five days tops before your tofu goes from delectable to your own personal kitchen nightmare.

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Why Cold Food Needs Way More Seasoning Than Hot Food

A complex array of factors contribute to the way we perceive food. Sensory inputs like smell, appearance, and taste all impact the eating experience. Another factor...

Why Cold Food Needs Way More Seasoning Than Hot Food

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