We know your kitchen countertop space is precious, and adding another gadget to the mix might seem frivolous. But for all its trendy hype, the air fryer is admittedly a powerful and versatile cooking companion. “Fryer” is a bit of misnomer; it’s really just a small, high-powered convection oven that circulates heat…

A few months ago, a publisher sent me a baking cookbook that I’d been very excited to read. It was heavy and exquisite, printed on expensive paper with the kind of binding that stayed open on its own. Eagerly I began flipping through it, reading through the recipes like it was a novel. I couldn’t wait to begin baking.…

Beef Wellington is a labor intensive dish. It’s a beef tenderloin surrounded by mushroom duxelles, sometimes ham, and then puff pastry, and it’s extraordinarily easy to screw up. Which is why I’ve never made it. But YouTube channel show host Josh Scherer of Mythical Kitchen is braver than I am. He went all-out and…

It would surprise most people to know that my bologna-loving self is really good at making delicious salads. Even self-proclaimed salad haters have been wooed by my artfully arranged piles of leaves and stuff. As one might expect, I have many strategies, tips, and tricks for making special-tasting salads, and I would…

Brand knockoffs are high comedy. Like when a TV show can’t get the rights to feature Baskin-Robbins ice cream, so they show Draskin-Bobbins ice cream instead. Or the time I bought my brother a pair of Ray-Bon aviators on a Barcelona sidewalk. Or Robert Cop 3. But brand knockoffs can also be a real pain in the ass—like…

Everyone on the Takeout staff has at least one furry four-legged friend, whether it’s a meow monster or a barky boy, and we love our pets very much. We know you love yours too. Which is why you may want to look into your pantry to see whether or not a new dog food recall affects you and your Good Dog.

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Stealing 185 gallons of craft beer is an impressive feat. Diving 66 feet underwater to steal 185 gallons of craft beer attached to a sunken ship on the ocean floor? That’s Danny Ocean–level piracy—but that’s exactly what happened in the coastal city of Mar del Plata, Argentina.

The TikTok wave is still going strong. People are finding more impressive food tricks that can be pulled off within 60 seconds, and based off what I see on a daily basis, food TikTok shows no signs of slowing down. Maybe the greatest TikTok star is Yumna Jawad, aka @feelgoodfoodie, who developed a folding technique…

One of the great things about TikTok food trends is that they are by the people for the people. Forget cheffy nonsense like fancy knife skills or chiffonading. TikTok cooking is all about ingenuity and making do with what you’ve got. And isn’t that what America is all about? No wonder we love these trends so.

Update, March 5, 2021: Ben Bonnema will clock in once more. The Daily Beast reports that, as of Wednesday, Trader Joe’s is reinstating Bonnema. “It’s been a stressful week since then, but it makes sense that they offered to reinstate because it was a completely unlawful termination,” Bonnema told The Daily Beast…

Few restaurant chains ever achieve the sort of meteoric growth that Popeyes has enjoyed these last two years. We could reiterate the reasons for that success, but you already know the answer is “chicken sandwiches.” (Will fish sandwiches soon be part of the winning formula, too? Time will tell.) But in addition to twea…

I’ve always got a few bags of green peas in the freezer to toss into pasta, instant ramen, fried rice, and other lazy-day dishes that could stand to be jazzed up with a vivid pop of sweet green goodness. Recently I realized that although I love peas I’m always adding them to something else, and never making them the…