Placing your avocado in a paper bag with a few bananas concentrates the ethylene gas, ripening it in half the time.

There are three easy ways to ripen bananas. For the fastest results, store them in a brown paper bag. You can also bunch them ...

Foods in the freezer — are they safe? Every year, thousands of callers to the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline are not sure about the safety of items stored in their own home freezers. The confusion is ...

Smiling through the overwhelm of the huge late-season harvest, gardeners often deploy the genial phrase, “dealing with abundance.” Although mounds of produce is a gift like no other, it comes with a ...

Pink defect: In aged cheeses, sometimes pink coloring can be caused by a microbial defect. Heat-loving bacteria like Thermus thermophilus can turn cheese pink. This is especially true when the ...

We set out to find the best frozen bean and cheese burritos. Find out which burrito came out on top in our ranked taste test.

Unless otherwise noted, the food service establishment has “approved” status from the New Mexico Environment Department. Violations of the New Mexico Food Code are often corrected on-site during an ...

If you're not a fan of single-use plastics, you might be frustrated about how English cucumbers are always wrapped tight in a thin layer. Here's why.

I use my freezer to store all kinds of things—frozen foods, leftovers, freezer meals, fresh fruits and veggies, and more. I even wrote a post about what kinds of foods you can freeze to save yourself ...