Food Preparation Archives

10 July 2006 What Americans call 'refried beans' are not really beans that have been fried more than once.

11 March 2008 Baby carrots are just small carrots or carrot chunks, not 'deformed full-sized carrots that have been soaked in chlorine.'

31 May 2012 The numeric codes found on produce stickers may or may not reliably identify how those produce items were grown.

Rumor: Cooking instant noodles along with the contents of their flavor packets turns the MSG contained therein toxic.

A compendium of mortifying examples of cake inscriptions gone wrong.

Text describes the process of producing mechanically separated chicken?

A freighter carrying tapioca nearly sank when a fire in its hold (and the water used to extinguish it) cooked the cargo.

Can homemade 'sun tea' harbor dangerous bacteria?

Does an international cookbook include a recipe for stuffed camel?

26 October 2011 Can you cook corn on the cob in a portable picnic cooler? And is it a good idea?

3 May 2003 Fast food restaurants and school cafeterias do not use 'Grade D but edible' meat, because no such classification exists.

Health statistics regarding eggs confuse bureaucrat and restaurant manager.

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