FoodTok

English Etymology From en food -Tok. Proper noun The community of food- and cooking-oriented accounts on TikTok. en 2021-02-09 Hazel Cills The Voyeuristic, Hypnotic Pleasure of FoodTok Jezebel (website) Jezebel https://jezebel.com/the-voyeuristic-hypnotic-pleasure-of-foodtok-1846153072 FoodTok can be a dizzying mash-up of competing birria taco recipes, fufu reviews, and Coca-Cola pot roast recipes passed down from sorority cookbooks. On FoodTok, I get to see how people eat and cook in their everyday lives, to peer into virtual kitchen windows like a voyeuristic passerby who just got a whiff of something delicious (or horrifying). https://web.archive.org/web/20250911070249/https://www.jezebel.com/the-voyeuristic-hypnotic-pleasure-of-foodtok-1846153072 11 September 2025 en 2021-05-28 Nicole Daniels Lesson of the Day: ‘TikTok, the Fastest Way on Earth to Become a Food Star’ w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/learning/lesson-of-the-day-tiktok-the-fastest-way-on-earth-to-become-a-food-star.html What does your “For You” page look like on TikTok? Do you watch mostly dance challenges, lip syncs, comedians, travel videos or something else? Have you ever ventured onto food TikTok, or FoodTok? Why might someone aspire to be a FoodTok star? Have you ever wanted to become a TikTok celebrity for cooking or something else? https://web.archive.org/web/20230429192451/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/learning/lesson-of-the-day-tiktok-the-fastest-way-on-earth-to-become-a-food-star.html 29 April 2023 en 2022-08-05 Lauren Sams How TikTok is taking over your kitchen w:Australian Financial Review https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/food-and-wine/how-tiktok-is-taking-over-your-kitchen-20220802-p5b6o3 TikTok recipes – or FoodTok, to use the parlance of the people – are a genre unto themselves. Creators post short videos of (usually) simple recipes that take fairly ordinary, well-trod ingredients (feta, tomatoes) and give them new relevance. https://web.archive.org/web/20231004005911/https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/food-and-wine/how-tiktok-is-taking-over-your-kitchen-20220802-p5b6o3 4 October 2023 en 2022-08-26 Corinne Sullivan TikTok’s Sexy Food Guru Cedrik Lorenzen Is Here to Whet Your Appetite Cosmopolitan (magazine) Cosmopolitan https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a40960061/tik-tok-cedrik-lorenzen-interview/ If you’ve spent any amount of time on FoodTok, then you know there are plenty of creators out there who’ll make your mouth water…but Cedrik Lorenzen is looking to do more than whet your appetite, if ya know what I mean. https://web.archive.org/web/20251227220316/https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a40960061/tik-tok-cedrik-lorenzen-interview/ 27 December 2025 en 2023-04-22 Eloise Hendy Dorito casseroles, butter diets and how weird food took over the internet w:The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/foodtok-gross-recipes-carnivore-diet-b2324136.html FoodTok is an infinite recipe book, a source of information, comfort and entertainment, and, at the same time, a disgusting universe of ever more ungodly “hacks”, tricks and challenges. Not-so-secret sploshing content resides in the overlapping midpoint of FoodTok’s Venn diagram, with “appealing” on one side and “outrageous” on the other. https://web.archive.org/web/20250928095107/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/foodtok-gross-recipes-carnivore-diet-b2324136.html 28 September 2025 en TikTok