Woman left stunned as she realises there’s a MUCH easier way to grate cheese – it’s quicker and less messy too
GRATING cheese may sound like a basic kitchen task, but it turns out we may have been doing it wrong all these years.
One woman showed how she discovered there is a new way of using her grater which makes it a whole lot easier.
TikTok user @go4gobbler shared how instead of holding the grater upright and swiping the cheese up and down it, you should instead lie it flat.
She demonstrated holding the handle to keep it secure, and then rubbing the cheese horizontally over the flat top.
Not only is the hack easy to do, it also produces less mess.
She showed how the cheese falls though inside the grater, and is contained without the sides, meaning it doesn’t fly everywhere.
The woman wrote: “The s*** I learn from TikTok.
“I’m still cringing at myself for not knowing this sooner.”
Her video has racked up over 890,000 likes, and people were quick to weigh in.
One said: “Seems like the angle would be a bit easier on your wrist, plus no need for extra bowl or plate etc.”
Another wrote: “This could have saved my knuckles a long time ago.”
And a third commented: “I’m blaming my mother, because she taught me with the other way. I knew she was wrong.”
Although some people agreed the sideways method is much easier, others insisted it’s totally wrong.
So, which way do you use your box grater?
Meanwhile, another woman left people stunned after revealing a hidden function in her cheese grater.
Sasha said she always messes up her cheese block by trying to get nice, thin slices off with a knife.
So when she saw a hack online to get perfect slices with a hidden feature on a traditional grater, she had to give it a try.
Sasha took to TikTok to document herself testing the hack, which involved using the lines on the side of the triangular grater.
“Never have I even realised that this slides here and it will create a perfect…” she said.
Sasha then exclaimed: “No way. Oh my God!”
The clip showed her sliding the block down the slides, before taking out the slices from the inside of the grater.
“I am shook,” she concluded.
“Okay am I the last person to know this or what?! Game changer!” Sasha captioned her video.
“What did you think that side was for…..?!” one person commented.
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Morning Routine
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