The Flavies are a celebration of cooking and food from the year! These aren't necessarily the best thing period by some objective measure — they’re just our faves from this year. Next year, we plan to get nominations from a bunch of our favorite food creators and then ask you to vote on them so they can be YOUR favs to make it a whole thing.
The Drink It In Award Is for the beverages that kept us hydrated through long cookbook reviews and late nights writing. We basically only drink water, coffee, tea, and alcohol, but this year, these were the standouts:
Runner's Up:
🏆 Winner: Mezcal Amarás Verde: https://mezcalamaras.com/en/products/mezcal-verde
The Can’t Stop Won’t Stop Award is for the snacks that we just couldn’t put down this year:
Runners up
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Our favorite food content…
The Wait, it got HOW MANY VIEWS Award!? Is for the food trends that took over all of our FYP pages — and occasionally our hearts. This year, there were really only two major contenders that took off on our side of the internet:
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Getting us through it award: Is for the comfort-watch food creators who did just that. 2024 was a rough year for a lot of people and the coziness that these creators embraced made it a little better for all of us.
Runners up
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The Lunchtime Achievement Award: This one's for up-and-coming food creators (somewhere around 100k followers or less) 🏆 Winner
The Finally, Food TV Worth Watching When You’re Not In a Hotel Room Award
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Misen Comeback Brand of the Year Award: This is for brands who went through bankruptcy and came back and it’s designed to only go to one specific brand and it’s right there in the name.
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The Wait, Wait Hear Me Out Award: Goes to our favorite innovations in cookware this year — things that really shook up a traditional formula.
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The Huge If True Award Goes to our most anticipated products announced for next year. Products that look truly futuristic, but we’re cautiously optimistic.
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The Doin it Write Award Kinda like the writing category in our cookbook reviews, but extended beyond just cookbooks.
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The Fork Me Award This goes to the best recipe we made this year — that we didn’t write of course — and luckily we made all of these on camera at some point, so you should hopefully have context for all of em!
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Stained Pages Award This is essentially the flavor award, which, for us is the biggest deal. It’s the cookbook that had not only the most smashes for us, but the smashes that we returned to the most…
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5 TOOLS DESERT ISLAND
Sarah's Tools
- MAC 7.25" Cook's Knife: https://www.macknife.com/products/chef-series-7-1-4-utility-knife
- BOOS Butcher Block: https://amzn.to/4h8Ix3o
- Granite Mortar & Pestle: https://amzn.to/4gQ0eVN
- Demeyere Industry5: 3qt Satute Pan: https://amzn.to/4jr3Dfx
- NordicWare Naturals Quarter Sheetpans: https://amzn.to/42c7neE
Bryn's Tools
- Smithey 7.25qt Dutch Oven: https://smithey.com/products/7-25-qt-dutch-oven?variant=43050463395997
- Kudu Grill 3: https://kudugrills.com/products/kudu-grill-3-0
- Hituhira Chukka Bocho: https://bernalcutlery.com/products/hitohira-nihonkou-220mm-chukka-bocho-chinese-cleaver-sk-carbon-steel
- Sakai Takayuki 180mm Honesuki: https://bernalcutlery.com/products/sakai-kikumori-nihonkou-180mm-garasuki-carbon-steel?_pos=1&_sid=d73df13ec&_ss=r
- Korean Earthenware Pot - Onggi: https://onggi.com/products/onggi
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