Soda drinks, who doesn’t love them, are in everybody’s home. In 2013 soda lost its top ranking as America’s favorite drink to be overtaken by water. But do sodas ever go bad, or do they just lose their carbonation, leaving you with a delicious flat drink? But be thankful you are in America. In parts…
Most adult parties enjoy a few of your favorite drinks and even a glass of liquor or two, but liquor like vodka can be strong and is never everyone’s idea of a fun drink to get the party going. Enter the jello shots. Jello shots are fun to eat and drink, and they are straight…
Kids love them. Adults may sneak a few privately away from prying eyes, but most of you love popsicles when it’s a hot day. They are cheap to buy, and you can get creative at home and make your own popsicles at home, giving some of the sugars and e-numbers a miss. But do popsicles…
Americans love their marshmallows, and around 90 million pounds of them are sold each year in the US. If you have never considered air as an ingredient in foods, then think again, without air, marshmallows can’t achieve their fluffy pillow life texture that we all adore so much. Did you know the ingredient that causes…
This iconic American breakfast has been around for more years than you may think, the Greeks were cowing down on pancakes in the 1400s, and pancakes are even mentioned in two of Shakespeare’s plays. Pancakes are deliciously sweet or savory, but when it comes to the shelf life of premixed pancakes, is it shelf stable?…
Suppose you have a brand new carton of ice cream in your freezer, and by some miracle, you don’t polish it off in a day. How long is it going to last? Well, the next time you go back to the freezer and are faced with ice cream full of ice crystals, you will wonder…
Freezer burn is something that we all deal with, we buy our styrofoam-packed meat from the meat department with its absorbing pad underneath to catch excess blood, and we place it in the freezer until the following recipe requires that food. Your freezer burn is coming from poorly packed meats. Did you know that food…
Have you ever been given a bottle of whisky, drank a glass, and then stored it with the liquor for a rainy day? You’re not alone. But have you ever considered if the whisky is aging in the bottle and getting better the same way as wine? After all, whisky is all about the age…
Shrimp is America’s most consumed seafood, so from time to time, you will come across one or two frozen shrimp with freezer burn. With so many shrimp coming from Asia, it’s hardly surprising that these tasty morsels get freezer burn as they are frozen for months on end. But is the freezer burning the end…
Butter has had a bad rap for a long time but is there another side to the story? As science moves forward, there is evidence that butter is better for you than you would have guessed; 1 teaspoonful of butter contains 11% of your recommended daily intake of vitamin A, which protects your skin and…