Chef Laura Frankel shares the slow cooker tips every home cook needs to know

A leading chef has revealed the slow cooker tips every home cook should know, including using gingerbread in your dishes for flavour and always using room temperature meat. Slow cooking as an approach has become wildly popular in the past few years, with groups on Facebook boasting thousands of members showing off their elaborate slow-cooked … Read more

Jamie Oliver-backed campaign to protect British food standards reaches nearly 750,000 signatures

Petition to protect British food standards from inferior foreign imports reaches nearly 750,000 signatures after Mail on Sunday and Jamie Oliver backed the campaign – and you can sign it here The chef is supporting The Mail on Sunday’s Save Our Family Farm campaign The petition is a plea to keep controversial US food off … Read more

MasterChef fans hilariously critique the way Jock Zonfrillo and his fellow judges eat food

‘He shovels in such a huge mouthful!’ MasterChef fans hilariously critique the way Jock Zonfrillo and his fellow judges eat food on the show By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 06:03 BST, 5 June 2020 | Updated: 06:06 BST, 5 June 2020 While MasterChef Australia might be all about the cooking, fans couldn’t … Read more

Some people are ’emotional eaters’ and enjoy the taste of food more when sad

Comfort eating is not just a cliche: Some people are ’emotional eaters’ and enjoy the taste of food more when they’re feeling down, study shows Female students reaction to food was studied under different emotional states  They found emotional eaters found food tastier and eat more when feeling down This didn’t apply to restrictive eaters … Read more

Hard Seltzer – alcoholic sparkling water – launches in UK today

A new kind of alcoholic drink that became the unofficial beverage of the summer 2019 in the US launches in the UK today. Hard seltzer – an alcoholic flavoured sparkling water – became a sensation with American drinkers last year, so much so that there were shortages in stores, rationing was introduced, and a festival … Read more

Ready meal sales slump as shoppers cook food from scratch

Britain gets back into the kitchen: Ready meal sales slump as shoppers use extra time at home to fill their freezers with ingredients and start cooking proper dinners Millions have shunned ready meals in lockdown and turned to home cooking Experts say Brits are more ‘time rich’ than usual so honing their cooking skills  Sale … Read more

Man’s hack reveals how to seal the carton properly to keep food fresh 

You’ve been folding cereal boxes wrong: Man’s hack reveals how to seal the carton properly to keep food fresh Video posted online showing a hack for folding a cereal box has divided opinion It was posted to social media with some also surprised they hadn’t seen it before  Meanwhile others claimed the video just made the … Read more

Cousins of T. Rex may have resorted to CANNIBALISM when food was scarce

Cousins of T. Rex that roamed the planet 150 million years ago may have resorted to CANNIBALISM when food was scarce Researchers analysed 2,368 fossil bone fragments from a Colorado, US, quarry Of the remains, 684 had bite marks from dinosaurs like meat-eating Allosaurus While most were on plant-eating reptiles, 17 per cent were on other meat … Read more

How to create your own KFC Hunters Chicken Toastie

How to make KFC’s Hunters Chicken Toastie at home: Chain releases its six-step recipe for the popular sandwich – and fans brand it ‘food heaven’ KFC have shared hack for how to make a cheese, bacon and fried chicken toastie Fans went wild for chicken chain’s recipe, branding it ‘food heaven’ at home  500 of … Read more

‘Lickable screen’ uses gels to simulate any flavor without users placing food in their mouth 

Bizarre ‘lickable screen’ uses gels to simulate any flavor from sushi to gummy candy without users placing a single piece of food in their mouth A ‘lickable screen’ device simulates flavors when placed on the tongue It holds tubes of gels that taste like the five flavors distinguished by the tongue   Electrical charges are released … Read more