If you don't know that it has been sacrificed to idols, then it is okay,
1 Corinthians 10:

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Don't ask. Just eat.

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> 26For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.” 27If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you **without raising any question** on the ground of conscience.
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Again, don't ask.

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> 28But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then **do not eat it**, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—
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If you know that it has been sacrificed to idols, then don't eat it in front of them.

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> 29I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else’s conscience? 30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
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What if you know that it has been sacrificed to idols and no one else is around, is it okay to eat?
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**First,** this section of scripture first appeared nearly 2,000 years ago, and was written to Christians who were surrounded by pagans who had a practice of presenting (offering) meat to their idols before taking it to the market to be sold as food. Therefore, when you ask, "Should ***we*** eat food sacrificed to idols?" you have jumped nearly 2,000 years to this day and age, I presume. I take it that you are asking Christians in the Year of our Lord 2023 whether to eat food sacrificed to idols, or not.

**Second**, where I live, I have no awareness of any food being presented before idols prior to being made available to anyone to buy. If you know of such practices, it would be helpful to either state a case (as an example of the pertinence of this question today) or to give a list of modern-day countries where this happens.

**Third,** ***the simple answer to your question*** (irrespective of any time from the middle of the first century A.D. until today) ***is "No, Christians should not."*** The matter is known to God, even if no other human knows you have eaten food that had been offered before an idol. ***Once you know, you are culpable, and God knows.*** Christians are to do everything (including their eating and drinking) for the glory of God. But, as the passage shows, there's no need to first hold an inquisition about it, asking questions, ferreting out individuals who might be suspected of the pagan practice and checking if a particular piece of food had been handled by them.

That section of scripture, however, has more to say on the matter than just that bit about food presented before an idol. It speaks of not eating meat that has not first been bled. But you do not ask about that, so I will end my answer here.
The rationale for Paul's advice comes from the principle in v21; "You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and [also] of the table of demons".

This follows on from vv 18-20. Israel were "partners in the altar" (v18, RSV) when they sacrificed, in that God and the worshippers both had their own shares in most of the sacrificed animals. Conversely, those who shared in the communal sacrificial meals of other gods were "partners with demons" (v20). It was necessary to choose. The same choice remains for Christians in that we now share in the "Lord's Supper", at the table over which the Lord presides. We must choose one or the other. The point is that we must avoid sharing in the worship of other gods, by participating in the their communal meals, and we must also avoid giving other people the impression that we are particpating indirectly.

If nobody else is involved, it seems to me that the deciding factor is what you yourself think you are doing if you get hold of meat which was previously "dedicated" to some other god. If you think you are participating in the original sacrificial meal, you are in the position of ch8 v7; "Some... eat food as really offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled."

But if you are giving thanks to God for your food (ch10 v30) and are confident that its previous history doesn't affect its value in the sight of God, then you are in the position of "liberty" in ch8 v8; "Food will not commend us to God". The dictum of ch10 v25, "Eat whatever is sold", can still apply even if we have asked the question anyway. In other words, it makes no difference one way or the other, unless we think it makes a difference. See the principle that runs through Galatians; we are living in liberty, not under law.