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Taste Test: Instant Mashed Potatoes
What exactly are instant mashed potatoes? For starters, they are made from real potatoes (not Cream of Wheat, Play-Doh, or any other such non-potato substance). But they are potatoes that have been cooked, mashed, and dehydrated to produce a potato-in-a-box product. Now, the second question. Should you eat them? We tried nine different brands to find out.Taste Test: We Find the Best Bread for Stuffing
When it comes to stuffing, there's the age-old question of bread. Better to go with a rustic, open-holed loaf, or plain old sandwich bread? What about eggy challah, or perhaps potato bread? We gathered up eight types of bread and made eight batches of stuffing to find our favorites.Taste Test: Storebought Stuffing
We've been eating a lot of stuffing around these parts this month. And by a lot, we mean some days we only ate stuffing. (Living the dream, or a nightmare?) Though some people are fervently opposed to the boxed or pouched insta-stuffings, it can be a fast and easy base to doctor up. We tried six brands of widely available stuffings; here's what we thought of each.Video: Hambone Eating Strawberry Yogurt
What do you do with leftovers from a strawberry yogurt taste test? Repurpose them for a canine version, duh. I can't say that Hambone was particularly discerning in his tastes.Taste Test: Strawberry Yogurt
Strawberry is a classic yogurt flavor but there's such a huge range in how strawberry-y these yogurts actually taste. Some have the fresh, real berry chunks swirled in; others are more artificially-flavored and sodapop-sweet. We tried 13 yogurt varieties to find the best fat-free, lowfat, and full-fat varieties.Taste Test: Salt and Vinegar Chips
If you're a Salt and Vinegar chip fan, you probably really like them. You probably like them to make your eyes water a few tears, your nostrils flare a few flickers, your lips turn white from all the seasonings, and your tongue to be coated in all that sour, salty tang. SEHQ is home to many S&V chips fans. It was a given that this taste test needed to happen. We tried 15 different brands to find our favorites.Taste Test: String Cheese
String cheese was always a lunchbox standby. It may not have been the highlight like chocolate chip cookies or Hostess Sno Balls, but it was salty and fun to eat—an acceptable outlet for those urges to play with your food. Years later, we still haven't grown too old for string cheese. Even if it doesn't have the most complex, nuanced flavor, it has a special time and place. What's the best brand of string-able dairy out there? We tasted 10 nationally available varieties to find out.Taste Test: Dill Pickles
Where do pickles fall in the taste test spectrum of oh-no-say-it-ain't-so and best-day-ever? It really depends. For some, it was a glorious day. Pickles, love 'em. On their own, in between bites of sandwiches and burgers, after a shot of whiskey. Others were scrubbing their hands to rid of the briny, garlicky stench. If you are on Team Pickle then you always have a jar on hand (one at the very least). We tried 11 nationally available brands of jarred dill pickles to find the most picklicious.Taste Test: Crunchy Peanut Butter, Stir
If you read the results of the no-stir peanut butters and thought, eww, hydrogenated oils and sugar, then this is the category you were waiting for. The "stir" classification of peanut butter has that puddle of oil sitting on top that you need to give a hearty stir. The ingredients in these are more au natural: just peanuts and usually some salt. That's it. These are the peanut butters that taste more like, well, peanuts. The winners, revealed!Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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