TikTok Food Trends:
The Best and the Worst Worst Ranked Written by: Ariadna Sandoval Design by: Izzy Critchfield-Jain Photographed by: Juliette Stokes The 2020 lockdown brought a lot of changes into our lives. We became experts in Zoom learning, mastered the art of banana bread-baking, briefly did Chloe Ting’s ab challenge, and even took a detective role to figure out if Carole Baskin killed her husband. But nothing brought more change than TikTok, most importantly TikTok food trends. In a monotonous year, those TikTok food trends kept us entertained. But things swiftly spiraled out of control as those exciting new creations were quickly replaced with questionable and borderline weird trends. So below, we rank the best and the worst to let you know which trends to recreate and which to scratch from your cookbooks.
THE BEST: 1. Tortilla Wrap Fold: Unlimited filling options all wrapped up in the same tortilla? What’s not to love? This easy trend shows there are no limits when it comes to wrapping a tortilla. 2. Baked Oats: Three words. Healthy breakfast cake. Baked oats are as simple as they sound; just take a mug, oats, eggs, and baking powder, and you’re all set. 3. Dalgona Whipped Coffee: Decadent and smooth, this time-consuming trend is worth being late to class. Just combine your favorite coffee powder with some sugar and whip with hot water until creamy.
4. Crispy Roasted Potatoes: Crunchy on the outside and tender on the inside; who doesn’t like crispy potatoes? First boiled until soft and then transferred to the oven with a coating of olive oil, these potatoes live up to their hype. 5. Baked Feta Pasta: A cheesy carb-filled wonderland. This trend just involves a heavenly block of cheese, pasta, your choice of vegetable, and some patience as you wait for the cheese to seamlessly coat your pasta.
THE WORST 1. Fruit Cereal: Fruit salad water. Why? This diet trend is just as it sounds: fruit with water in a cereal bowl. 2. Cloud Bread: Don’t do this; just eat normal carbs. A result of diet TikTok, this egg white, sugar, and cornstarch combination is a sad excuse for real bread. 3. Pancake Cereal: Spent 30 minutes shaping the perfect size pancakes just to put them in a bowl of milk. Don’t do it. 4. Cotton Candy Pickles: The name says it all. Why should these two ever be allowed to coexist? A pickle wrapped in cotton candy…why? 5. Cheetos mac’ n cheese: A crime against humanity. This flaming red hot soup should have never been created. Flaming hot Cheetos with mac’ n cheese, this toxic-looking combination looks more like a chemical solution than edible food. All in all, TikTok food trends entertained us with the good and the bad, bringing both mouthwatering food hacks as well as objectionable food choices. But given the trends’ popularity and wide reach among our generation, it’s evident that TikTok food trends will not die any time soon (even though some definitely should).
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