Genius hack to prevent kitchen food spills goes viral on TikTok
No matter how much you love getting your creative juices flowing in the kitchen, no one loves the clear up.
Kitchen counters covered in a sticky mess is one of the worst parts of the cooking aftermath.
Thankfully, a video posted on TikTok recently promises to make annoying food spills a thing of the past.
In the clip, TikTok user Andrew Gatt demonstrates a simple (yet not commonly known) way of avoiding kitchen spills while pouring liquids from a bowl to a pan, or vice versa.
It’s all about basic physics.
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To demonstrate his method for avoiding pouring pitfalls, Gatt filmed himself making scrambled eggs.
After tipping the eggs from a bowl into the pan, he tilts the bowl back and points out the leftover egg spilling over the lip, which would continue to drip down the side of the bowl and onto the counter.
However, Gatt explains that if he applies the law of basic physics and instead of tipping the bowl back, continued to turn it in the same direction, the drippings would fall back into the bowl, preventing any mess.
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Illustrating the simple yet genius method, Gatt illustrates that by continuing to turn the bowl, he can avoid any spillage on the kitchen counter or whatever surface he places the bowl back down.
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“How old were you when you learned this life hack?” Gatt captioned the video.
While this particular video shows Gatt using the technique while making eggs, you can use this hack for virtually any liquid that could be spilled on the kitchen counter.
The video was viewed more than 1.2 million times within a week of being posted and has clocked up 69.7K likes from impressed home cooks.
“OMG thank you so much for this. You have no idea,” one person commented.
“My paper towels be like ‘thank you’,” another joked.
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Other people shared their own tricks for avoiding excess drippage.
“I instead use a spatula to get all the excess egg out of the bowl. I hate to see anything go to waste,” one person offered.
“I just put it in the sink while my hand is stopping the drip from hitting the floor,” another shared.
This video can join the host of other social media hacks helping to improve our kitchen skills.
Last month we learned how to make the crispiest roast potatoes using a magical store cupboard ingredient and back in August we solved the problem of cleaning stained tuppaware.
We were also impressed when a woman shared a clever trick for disposing of hot grease without having to pour it down the drain.
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