The cooking oil hack on use of pull cap of cooking oil bottle goes viral!

TikTok provides a lot of new and creative ideas on foods and food preparation. Not all are useful and some are even harmful. Recently, there was a post on this social media platform wherein the poster revealed a cooking oil hack with the pull cap on the bottle of the cooking oil.

TikTok post and the cooking oil hack

TikTok social media has gained popularity of late with lot of people using it to exchange their ideas about foods and food preparation. There are posts about various innovative food recipes and also some info on foods and their history. But not all the posts are useful. And some can even be harmful. Some of them might even be totally useless. But many of these posts go viral. Some get good comments whereas others end up been trolled. And there are some that get a mixed response.

Recently, there was a post on TikTok that gave a tip on the use of the pull cap on the bottle of the cooking oil. Cooking oil is a pantry staple and one uses it for frying, stir frying, sautéing, or baking. It is also used in small amounts for grilling and making salads, soups, sauces etc. There are many varieties of oils with different health quotients, smoke points, physical and chemical properties and flavors.

The use of the pull cap on the cooking oil bottle

People use different measuring tools to measure the cooking oil that they pour into their food dishes during the preparation stage. Teaspoons and tablespoons are the common measures that people use. But some cooks prefer to just pour the oil from the bottle. This is approximate and can lead to an enthusiastic cook pouring more and thus ruining the food dish. The dish might turn out to be greasy, heavy and not tasty.

In the viral TikTok post, the account user shared a clip in which the user is seen opening a cooking oil bottle with a ring pull cap. The user adds that one should not throw away the cap but put it back in place after opening.

And after that, one can turn the bottle upside down and then pour the oil. The cap now serves as a barrier and prevents large amounts of oil from going into the dish. One can easily control the oil that comes out of the bottle.

This video was posted on Foodies TikTok channel.

Response of the social media users

This viral post got a mixed response on social media. Some were happy with it and appreciated it. One wrote:

“How didn’t I know this until right now?”

Another user commented:

‘So I don’t have to deal with the whole glug glug thing?”

And a third user asked:

“Why don’t they say this on the bottle? It makes sense.”

And a fourth was a bit upset and wrote:

“Why didn’t I see this five minutes ago, I just threw mine away?”

But others felt that it was an unnecessary way and they preferred to do it in the traditional way. And one such person wrote:

“Without the cap, I’m able to still my olive oil the same way.”

And a second person said:

“I don’t understand the purpose of it.”

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Another user commented:

“Why would you do that? It’s unnecessary, that’s what the plastic spikes are for.”