If we were to illustrate sadness with food, I think it might look like that haphazard pile of restaurant French fries that you just couldn’t quite finish. Where
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I forgot to put my eggs in the fridge…can I still eat them?
What you see: A carton of raw eggs left out overnight. What it is: Eggs that have been stored at a temperature that facilitates bacterial growth. Eat or toss:
Does it matter if a pepper is part green and part red?
What you see: Areas on a red, orange or yellow pepper that are still green What it is: Just portions that are underripe, but totally edible Eat or toss?
An onion of a different color?
What you see: Red onions that turn a bluish, greenish color during cooking. What it is: A harmless reaction of a plant pigment to an alkaline (basic)
Have some of this languishing in your fridge? Here’s how to use up any amount of any cream
Ahhh… cream. Whenever a recipe calls for it, I dutifully buy it, use the required two tablespoons and then stare at the cool little carton of thick, enticing
Can you eat moldy bread?
What you see: Mold on bread. What it is: Mold. Eat or toss: Toss. Since bread is soft, the mold could have spread into other parts of it. Even if you can’t see
Chew on this: The tale of the roughed up sweet potato
What you see: Holes and chewed areas on the outside of your sweet potato What it is: Love bites, likely from white grubs. Eat or toss: Peel off the damage and
What’s this scabby stuff on my apple?
What you see: Scab-like browning on apple skin. What it is: Apple scab! Eat or toss? Eat! Just cut away the area affected by the scab. This is a fungus that
What the muck? Dealing with brown guacamole
What you see: Guacamole that’s brown and yucky on top. What it is: Guac that turned brown because it was exposed to air. Eat or toss? Toss the brown layer,
Why is this sweet potato “veiny”?
What you see: Thick, raised lines, looking something like veins, on the surface of your sweet potato. What it is: Fibrous roots growing on the sweet potato. Eat
DC Food Recovery Week & #RescueDishDC
DC Food Recovery Week is happening right now! We’re taking a break from our regular EatOrToss programming to urge our readers in Washington, DC to take
My apple is covered in sooty spots
What you see: Black smudgy spots on apple skin. What it is: A fungus called sooty blotch. Eat or toss? Eat! You’re seeing a cosmetic issue, not anything that
Clear your kitchen with Moving Truck Freezer Bars
We were moving. And hoping to eat up as much as possible in our kitchen before it was time to pack everything up. And we were busy and needed quick, convenient
Can you eat green potatoes?
What you see: Greenish skin on a potato. What it is: Chlorophyll buildup that signals higher levels of specific types of glycoalkaloids, which can be harmful if
Is that a pepper growing inside my pepper?!?
What you see: A pepper growing inside a pepper. What it is: A misfire in the pepper’s seed-making apparatus. Eat or toss? Eat! Consider this bonus pepper.
Stringy blobs on egg yolks?
What you see: White, stringy blobs on the yolk when you crack open an egg. What it is: The chalazae, essentially a set of strands built into the egg to anchor
