Comments on: Cheating the leftovers

By: Conall

Conall — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:43:06 +0000

@ Bridget

Great question! In fact, I don’t know that re-heating is a necessary step for leftovers to be “leftovers”. Also, would you bake the potato a third time to re-heat it? For me it would likely be once-microwaved-twice-baked potatoes. Is that like once bitten, twice shy?

By: bridget

bridget — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:00:32 +0000

What about foods that are purposely cooked twice? Like twiced baked potatoes? Do those constitute food that has been reheated? Or is that their original form and heating them again makes them three times baked potato?

By: meghan

meghan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:21:06 +0000

@ Conall,

So cold pizza is a breakfast food and hot pizza is for lunch/dinner? Thinking back to a previous CMD post…

By: Conall

Conall — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:16:57 +0000

So where does pizza come in here? I mean, I LOVE pizza, and I also LOVE cold pizza for breakfast, but I feel like they are almost two different foods. Neither one is better than the other, just different dishes, at least if you ask me.

By: meghan

meghan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:10:42 +0000

@ Bridget,

I will not eat leftover mac n’ cheese. The cheese gets all weird once it cools and you can never quite get the consistency the same when you reheat it.

There are a couple of things that I purposely make the day before I want to eat them – chili and marinara. Always better after a good sit in the fridge!

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:04:14 +0000

@ Mark,

Day-old Kool-Aid is better! The flavors are richer; the drink is more like real juice and less like flavored sugar-water. Well remembered! I can’t recall the last time that I had Kool-Aid …

By: Bridget

Bridget — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:49:26 +0000

I am a huge fan of day old mac n’ cheese.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:34:12 +0000

Kool-Aid is definitely better as leftover. Day old Kool-Aid is for some reason much tastier.