McCormick Culinary Red Food Color, 1 pt

I needed primary colors to dye wood blocks for use by children. This is the only product that has enough volume to allow for use when making multiple products or dying not so small pieces. It worked well. The colors produced were vibrant and stable, when mixed with vinegar. Highly recommend this product for hobbits/woodworking use if you need a non-toxic dye. This red became deeper the longer it soaked. Not fire engine deep, but a nice result.

My grandchildren love Red Velvet cake--thus I use this product often. It will stain your hands for a little while but well worth the color to please my family.

Used this to color the water in my DIY planters to turn the water to blood and the red turned out perfect—bold, dramatic, and spooky. Dipped the planters, let gravity do the rest, and it held its color even in outdoor light. Came with an extra seal across the top to prevent any spills. If you’re doing DIY props or themed decor, this bottle’s got you covered and lasts a pretty good while. Its pretty concentrated so a little goes a long way when it comes to consistency. Not terribly messy to use, but can stain clothes if you're not careful. Tastes bland.

It seems like every Christmas when I get ready to make Red Velvet cake, there's an ingredient I forget. Usually it's buttermilk, last year it was the red coloring🤦🏻‍♀️ I used green, not horrible, but not as appealing visually. I made sure that wouldn't happen again by getting a HUGE bottle this year! I wondered about how it would survive the shipping process. It was wrapped in thick bubble wrap in a well-sealed plastic bag inside a box with other items. It was fully intact, no leaking, and ready to use! It's McCormick so I knew the quality would be great & I wasn't disappointed! Sometimes with bold colors there's a bitter taste in what you're making. Not so with the McCormick food coloring! Huge thanks to McCormick for making the larger sizes, it makes life easier for forgetful people like me!

First things first, the bottle came with a broken cap. The lid part was broken right off from the rest of it, so it would have started evaporating through the small hole right after I broke the seal, but I fixed that. It just so happened that I had the cap for a bottle of coca-cola lying around, and (after washing it off) it happened to fit perfectly. It did, however, make it more difficult to pour the coloring out more carefully without the tinier hole on the real cap. So, if yours comes with a broken cap, a coca cola cap will mostly fix that. Pepsi probably won't work because Pepsi << Coca-cola (In physics, << means so much less than that the other one isn't worth consideration). Anyways, I used this food coloring for fountain pen ink, so what I will say next probably won't apply for cooks and whatnot. It's a great red, excellent flow, and had no terrible issues with any of my pens. I don't have any REALLY high end pens, but if it works for mine (most expensive ones I have are a Lamy Safari and a Hero 100, the second of which was a gift), it should work for a meisterstuck or something. It typically dries actually a tad faster than the average real ink, but not even comparably as fast as Bernanke blue or other quick dry inks. One thing to be noted is that food coloring is not waterproof at all whatsoever. I put this color with some other real inks I had (mostly noodler's, but only a few deemed "bulletproof") on one sheet of paper, then put it under the tap, and in an instant, the food coloring ink was gone (well, not that fast, but you get the idea). This could be detrimental, or useful in some way, if you're worried about stains. If you want a writing sample with McCormick Red, comment below and I'll upload one. Otherwise, I'm just far too lazy to post a writing sample that people don't want to see anyway.