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  • Reese's Puffs, the Closest Thing to Candy in a Cereal Box

    Well, it's Halloween. And since I've already written about Count Chocula, Franken Berry and Boo Berry, I figured we'd talk about the next most Halloweeny cereal there is, the only currently available cereal*, to my knowledge, that's based off a candy: Reese's Puffs. It just so happens that it's also one of the most incredibly delicious cereals of all time (and I really mean this).

  • Thanksgiving: What's Your Stuffing Approach?

    It can be a very personal question. Do you use a boxed mix? Stovetop? Semi-homemade? Totally from scratch? Dry out the bread overnight first? And where do you fall in the dressing vs. stuffing debate? To clarify, "stuffing" is when it actually cooks in the bird's cavity while "dressing" bakes in a separate pan.

  • Soda: Big Red and Mello Yello

    One of the best things about traveling-well, at least, the kind of traveling we do-is getting to know foodstuffs that seem utterly normal to those who've always had them. On our most recent trip, a taco tour of Texas with a detour to New Mexico: amazing flour tortillas. Whataburger. Green chile on everything. And Big Red and Mello Yello. But here's the thing, as admitted outsiders. We get Mello Yello. Big Red, not so much.

  • Everything You Need to Know About Carving a Pumpkin

    "Ok Jack, time for your lobotomy!" That Calvin and Hobbes quote comes to mind this time each year. But there are a few crucial things to remember before you start the lobotomy work.

  • How To Make Lucky Charms Marshmallows At Home

    I always felt incredibly sorry for Lucky the Leprechaun. First of all, as a magical creature, he probably struggled with confidence issues growing in up a world where no one believed in him. It's a bitter pill, knowing people don't believe in you. Imagine if they didn't even believe in your existence? But after finally working up the courage to introduce himself to a group of children, hoping to find acceptance with the most innocent and unprejudiced of us all, they cornered him on a bridge and forced him to jump.

  • What's Your Favorite Food Smell?

    You eat with your nose as much as you do your mouth. Some food aromas are so powerful and potent, you can practically taste them after a deep whiff. Ever been in a bakery when they pull out a fresh loaf of bread? Or Thanksgiving, when the house smells of turkey-pie-stuffing-etc. all day long? Don't

  • Grape-Nuts, Neither A Grape Nor a Nut—Discuss

    Grape Nuts, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Is it your mysterious name? Shhh wait-don't tell me. I don't want to know what it means. Is it your unique warm and nutty flavor? Is it the way I can't hear anything when I'm eating you because the crunching is just too loud? Is it your versatility; How I love you just as much whether you're crunchy or soggy?

  • Do You Have A Weird Pizza Eating Habit?

    My wife is charming in many ways. One of them is her habit of leaving her favorite bit of a meal until the very end. This is particularly charming to me because it means that long after the two strips of bacon have made the short journey from my plate to my belly, there are still two perfectly good strips sitting on the other side of the table. I usually spend the second half of brunch honing my already top-notch distracting skills while attempting to liberate her bacon strips from the cruel fate of going cold before being consumed.

  • Candy a Day: Junior Mints

    If your sweet tooth leads you to the movie theater concession stand, what do you buy? Sour Patch Kids? Twizzlers? Twix? For me, there's only once answer, and it's Junior Mints.

  • Try This: Homemade Mayo In 2 Minutes Or Less

    This week's Food Lab is all about brevity. Not only will I show you how to make mayonnaise at home in two minutes or less, but I'll also explain the entire process in precisely 1,110 words, (making this the briefest Food Lab post ever in its entire long-winded history), and perhaps convince you to buy a hand blender if you don't already have one.

  • Candy a Day: Peanut Butter M&M's

    I never was wild about Peanut M&M's-they were too savory and dry, nut-filled in a way that didn't feel like candy. But Peanut Butter M&M's are as sweet as can be, filled with buttery, creamy peanut-butter that's almost more icing than nut paste. These aren't anemic Reeses Pieces; they're chubby little guys with a generous amount of stuffing. ...

  • Taste Test: Fruit Punch Juice Boxes

    Now that we're all settled in back to school, it's time to look again at what's packed in your (or your kid's) lunch box. PB&J? String cheese? Maybe a strawberry yogurt? But is a lunch sack really complete without a juice box?

  • The Burger Lab: An Even Better Way To Make Any Cheese Melt Like American (This Time in Slices!)

    You know what the greatest thing about recipes is? There's always a better one to come along. I mean, I've already posted recipes for the so-called Ultimate Sliders, only to have them quickly supplanted by the (more) Ultimate(est) Perfect Sliders and most recently the In-N-Out, Telway, White Mann Ultimate Animal-Style Slider Mashup, and those are just tiny burgers we're talking about.

  • Serious Chocolate: 3 New 3 Musketeers Bars

    I don't know about you; but when I was a kid, the simpler a candy bar was, the better. My favorite? 3 Musketeers. Soft, chocolaty, and not at all complicated-what wasn't to love?

  • Taste Test: Strawberry Yogrut

    Yogurt is many things for many people. Breakfast, a lunchtime chaser to a sandwich, an anytime snack, a bedtime nibble. Peel off the top of the individually portioned cups and you've got a creamy, refreshing, protein-packed snack on the go.

  • Question: Do You Like Fried Oreos?

    At Serious Eats, we're certainly not above our lowbrow pleasures, whether McDonald's fries or Rice Krispies Treats cereal or pies made with Saltines and condensed milk. So I'm hoping this is a safe place to confess that I'm a fan of fried Oreos.

  • 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.

  • Food Lab Lite: My Favorite Deviled Eggs

    Growing up, I was never a fan of deviled eggs (or anything mayonnaise related, for that matter), but then again, deviled eggs back then consisted mainly of overcooked, slightly sulfurous hard boiled eggs mashed up with Hellman's mayo and a bit of yellow mustard, served too cold. They were the default "serve them anyway, someone will eat them after the guacamole's gone" option at the potluck. I thought I'd swear them off forever.

  • Poll: How Do You Remember School Cafeteria Pizza

    Back-to-school season always makes me a little nostalgic. Like, remember how awesome Fridays were? There is some sort of universal rule that in schools across the nation kids get served this specific specimen of pizza that can't really be found in any other setting. I think nowadays the corporate pi

  • How to Make Better Chocolate Milk

    I always joke that I was raised by hippies.* All I ate for breakfast as a kid was shredded wheat or granola; and I always got weird stuff in my lunchbox, like hard-boiled eggs and fruit leather, that no one wanted to trade.