Make chain meals at home
- Tasty posted a '22 Chain Restaurant Foods You Can Make At Home' video that has 10,000-plus views. (x.com) - The clip walks through step-by-step copycat recipes for 22 popular chain dishes. (x.com) - Copycat recipe videos like this are driving viewership and encouraging away-from-restaurant cooking today. (x.com)
Tasty is pushing chain-restaurant copycats back into home kitchens with a social video built around 22 remakeable favorites. (x.com) The post on X says the video covers “22 Chain Restaurant Foods You Can Make At Home,” and the clip had drawn more than 10,000 views on the platform. BuzzFeed published the matching recipe roundup on August 9, 2018 under the same name. (x.com) (buzzfeed.com) The BuzzFeed list runs through dishes tied to national chains including an In-N-Out cheeseburger, Outback Steakhouse Bloomin’ Onion, Chick-fil-A nuggets, Panera broccoli cheddar soup, Panda Express honey walnut shrimp, Wendy’s Frosty, Olive Garden breadsticks, and Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme. (buzzfeed.com) Copycat cooking works by breaking branded dishes into parts a home cook can buy anywhere: sauce, breading, dough, seasoning, and assembly. Tasty’s format leans on step-by-step visuals instead of restaurant lore, turning familiar menu items into standard kitchen projects. (x.com) (buzzfeed.com) The appeal lands at a moment when BuzzFeed is also publishing cost-focused food coverage built around making common purchases at home. In an April 12, 2026 post, BuzzFeed highlighted readers describing homemade pizza, bread, and oat milk as much cheaper than buying prepared versions. (buzzfeed.com) That thrift angle sits beside convenience and control. Several of the copycat recipes in BuzzFeed’s roundup call for swaps or shortcuts, including baking shrimp instead of frying it and changing the Crunchwrap protein, which makes the dishes easier to adapt than a restaurant order. (buzzfeed.com) This is also not a one-off for the publisher. BuzzFeed has repeatedly returned to the format with chain-recipe lists in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2024, and 2026, showing that restaurant dupes remain a durable food-content category across platforms. (buzzfeed.com 1) (buzzfeed.com 2) (buzzfeed.com 3) (buzzfeed.com 4) (buzzfeed.com 5) (buzzfeed.com 6) The pitch is simple: keep the chain craving, skip the trip, and make the breadsticks or burger yourself. Tasty’s latest post packages that idea into a single scrollable video built for viewers who already know the menu by heart. (x.com)
