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When watching your favorite cooking show, you’ll see chefs whipping up a delicious dish—often to just to eat one bite. So naturally, you may have thought to yourself, “Where is the rest of that food going? The crew doesn’t just throw it out after, do they?”
Don’t worry: Food Network stars detest food waste as much as we do. In a recent podcast episode ofAll on the Table with Katie Lee Biegel, Sunny Anderson joined her co-host ofThe Kitchenand shared that they originally bonded in their joint audition because they connected on not wanting to create unnecessary food waste.
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“The best part of you was not liking that we were wasting the bread,” Anderson shared about Biegel, saying that their on-screen test was making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches together. “I remember someone—not me, because I don’t waste bread—wanted to cut the crust off. And you were like, ‘Excuse me? Where’s the bread going? We paid for the whole loaf!’”
The celebrity chefs admit that while sometimes perishable ingredients do get disposed of on the show, for the most part, the recipes made almost never go to waste.
“The truth is, though, people always want to know what happens to the food after we do it onThe Kitchen. It does get eaten,” Biegel shares. “There’s a crew of, like, 70, 80 people that are there eating the food.”
Not only does the crew help out to diminish the food waste, but Biegel also explains that anything not eaten on set gets donated.
“At the end of a shoot, whatever we have left over, it goes to a food pantry,” she says. “So there is very little waste.”
“One hundred percent, and let me tell you, how many times have we taken food home?” Anderson says. According to Biegel, the stars are given their own mini fridges and a quart-size container in their dressing rooms, so they’re encouraged to take home any leftover food they want.
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EatingWell uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read oureditorial processto learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable and trustworthy.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Quantifying methane emissions from landfilled food waste.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.United States 2030 food loss and waste reduction goal.
EatingWell uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read oureditorial processto learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable and trustworthy.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Quantifying methane emissions from landfilled food waste.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.United States 2030 food loss and waste reduction goal.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Quantifying methane emissions from landfilled food waste.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.United States 2030 food loss and waste reduction goal.
