Viral kitchen hack shows hard butter can be made spreadable with this unexpected tool
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Yueke
Fri, Jul 12, 2024
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Tired of not being able to spread hard butter on toast? There’s a kitchen hack for that, and it involves an unexpected tool.
Scraping a handheld strainer across a block of butter appears to make the dairy-based spread easier to unfurl on bread and other foods that require buttering.
The technique has been demonstrated and shared on TikTok by food bloggers and people who like to test the validity of rumored hacks.
Dzung Lewis, a cookbook author and content creator who uploads food and parenting content via her Honeysuckle channel, is one of the latest internet personalities to test the strainer method.
"The BEST Butter Gadget Everybody already has," she captioned her TikTok video in June, which has generated over 383,100 views at the time of publication.
In her 36-second video, Lewis explained that she saw another TikTok content creator use a strainer to "grate their cold butter right out of the fridge," and she decided to try the method herself.
Lewis described the grated butter that gets pushed through the small strainer holes as looking like "butter hairs" before she confirmed that the trick works.
"New life hack unlocked," she said in her video. "This is the best butter gadget I’ve ever tried. Ten out of ten."
Fox News Digital reached out to Lewis for comment.
Dozens of TikTok users replied to Lewis’ video stating that they typically use strainers when they’re making tea.
The American grocery delivery and pickup service Instacart responded positively to the video.
"You learn something new every day," an employee behind the online app commented on the video.
Another TikTok user commented that they use a different tool to break and spread butter.
"I use a potato peeler, it’s also very good to have thin slices that spread very well," the commenter wrote.
Other TikTok users dared Lewis to test the strainer hack on cheese.
At least one commenter wrote that they think "it’s gonna be impossible to wash" butter out of the strainer mesh.
Despite the concern, several TikTok creators have tested the butter-strainer hack in the last year, and most have given the method a thumbs up, including regional grocery store chain Kroger.
The TikTok user who appears to have made the butter-strainer hack go viral is a woman who goes by the username @Roxy.369.
Roxy, who seems to be from Scotland, demonstrated the butter-grating method with a video she uploaded on Sept. 14, 2022.
The video has generated more than 4.2 million likes, 409,000 saves, and 17,500 comments.
"I need the hack for cleaning it afterwards," the TikTok post’s top commenter wrote, which earned over 29,800 likes.
"Great way to get butter that'll easily spread onto softer breads," another commenter wrote. "Plus, it melts quicker when put on top of warm foods."
"That’s the best thing I’ve seen all day," another TikTok user wrote.
"Just use a cheese grater," another user suggested.
Fox News Digital reached out to Roxy.369 for comment.
Scraping a handheld strainer across a block of butter appears to make the dairy-based spread easier to unfurl on bread and other foods that require buttering.
The technique has been demonstrated and shared on TikTok by food bloggers and people who like to test the validity of rumored hacks.
Dzung Lewis, a cookbook author and content creator who uploads food and parenting content via her Honeysuckle channel, is one of the latest internet personalities to test the strainer method.
"The BEST Butter Gadget Everybody already has," she captioned her TikTok video in June, which has generated over 383,100 views at the time of publication.
In her 36-second video, Lewis explained that she saw another TikTok content creator use a strainer to "grate their cold butter right out of the fridge," and she decided to try the method herself.
Lewis described the grated butter that gets pushed through the small strainer holes as looking like "butter hairs" before she confirmed that the trick works.
"New life hack unlocked," she said in her video. "This is the best butter gadget I’ve ever tried. Ten out of ten."
Fox News Digital reached out to Lewis for comment.
Dozens of TikTok users replied to Lewis’ video stating that they typically use strainers when they’re making tea.
The American grocery delivery and pickup service Instacart responded positively to the video.
"You learn something new every day," an employee behind the online app commented on the video.
Another TikTok user commented that they use a different tool to break and spread butter.
"I use a potato peeler, it’s also very good to have thin slices that spread very well," the commenter wrote.
Other TikTok users dared Lewis to test the strainer hack on cheese.
At least one commenter wrote that they think "it’s gonna be impossible to wash" butter out of the strainer mesh.
Despite the concern, several TikTok creators have tested the butter-strainer hack in the last year, and most have given the method a thumbs up, including regional grocery store chain Kroger.
The TikTok user who appears to have made the butter-strainer hack go viral is a woman who goes by the username @Roxy.369.
Roxy, who seems to be from Scotland, demonstrated the butter-grating method with a video she uploaded on Sept. 14, 2022.
The video has generated more than 4.2 million likes, 409,000 saves, and 17,500 comments.
"I need the hack for cleaning it afterwards," the TikTok post’s top commenter wrote, which earned over 29,800 likes.
"Great way to get butter that'll easily spread onto softer breads," another commenter wrote. "Plus, it melts quicker when put on top of warm foods."
"That’s the best thing I’ve seen all day," another TikTok user wrote.
"Just use a cheese grater," another user suggested.
Fox News Digital reached out to Roxy.369 for comment.
Denmark Rulings Show How Video Review at Euro 2024 Has Evolved Far from FIFA’s Original Vision for VAR
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Video review of soccer referees’ decisions is testing the patience and faith of coaches, players, and fans at the European Championship — much like it does in club games.
When FIFA tested and shaped the Video Assistant Review (VAR) concept in 2016, there were some clear guidelines:
Only overturn clear errors. Do not undermine the authority of the match referee. Give decisions within 10 seconds.
How is that working out for everyone two World Cups and two Euros later, plus countless controversies in English Premier League games?
Not well at all, according to Denmark coach Kasper Hjulmand.
“In my opinion, this is not how football is supposed to be,” Hjulmand said late Saturday after a match that swung on back-to-back technology-aided decisions from the English match officials.
Instead of leading 1-0 in the 48th minute, on Joachim Andersen’s goal ruled offside, Denmark was trailing 1-0 in the 53rd, due to a penalty awarded against Andersen for handball.
“Yeah, it was an even game. And then in the end, it was the referee who decided the game for us,” Andersen said.
The reaction of Hjulmand and Andersen — who plays for English Premier League club Crystal Palace and is well acquainted with the work of referee Michael Oliver — summed up widespread frustration in an era of so many goal celebrations cut short.
This is the tournament, of course, where the technology has seen three goals and Belgium forward Romelu Lukaku’s goal overruled by VAR.
Referees also can often seem to be remotely controlled, going against FIFA’s pledge in 2016: “Never lose the authority of referees, never take it out.”
“Michael Oliver is not making this decision,” Tottenham’s Australian coach Ange Postecoglou said of the penalty award during a British broadcast of the Denmark game. “If I hear one more person saying that they’re not re-refereeing a game, I will blow up. I don’t think that is why we brought in technology for that decision.”
The ball clearly struck Andersen’s hand, though from a hard-hit cross at such a close distance that Oliver did not initially judge it a foul, had he thought an arm was extended in an unnatural position.
While the VAR intervention was decisive, applying the strict laws of the game regarding handball was the issue for some.
“The handball law is (expletive),” Alan Shearer, the former England great and BBC broadcaster, said.
Hjulmand said he was “so tired of the ridiculous handball rule. Joachim was running normally. It’s a normal situation.”
VAR officials also were not technically responsible for the offside judged against Denmark’s Thomas Delaney, who had been ahead of the last German defender. It was a binary ruling by the multi-camera-based Semi-Automated Offside Technology (SAOT) system conveyed to the referee from the VAR room.
Another goal before scoring against Romania was similarly marginal, using a system developed since 2016.
“SAOT is working very, very well, we are super happy,” UEFA’s head of refereeing Roberto Rosetti said in a review of match officials’ performance in the 36 group-stage games.
After 20 corrections by VAR in those 36 games, the rate was bumped up by the three key overrules — two goals disallowed, one for each team, and the Germany penalty awarded — in the second of the round of 16 games.
One of the key decisions also involved Stuart Attwell, who helped steer another English referee, Anthony Taylor, to rule out a goal for the Netherlands against France. The officials decided France goalkeeper Mike Maignan had been impeded by Denzel Dumfries standing nearby in an offside position. The game ended 0-0.
The offside tech has been giving decisions within an average of 46 seconds, Rosetti said, while VAR decisions overall, which can include sending the referee to a pitch-side monitor, were averaging one minute, 36 seconds.
Those are faster decisions by far than in the now-infamously erratic Premier League, yet still way beyond FIFA’s original wish for decisions within seconds to not disrupt the flow of play.
“We have 10 seconds, or 12 seconds if we want, but it’s not good for the game,” said top Dutch referee Bjorn Kuipers in 2016. Kuipers is now retired from games and is at Euro 2024 working for UEFA.
Despite complaints and frustration about VAR, when Premier League clubs were asked on June 6 about scrapping it next season, they voted to keep it.
Also, the laws on handball and offside can be changed at the International Football Association Board (IFAB). It is run by FIFA and the four British soccer federations.
Ultimately, however, the soccer industry wants to live without more of the epic controversies that are part of its lore.
Did England’s decisive third goal against West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final really cross the goal-line? Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” goal helped Argentina beat England in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinals.
Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann, who was not born until 1987, suggested Saturday the game is now better for its technology.
“I think when you value every situation, and if VAR interrupts the game and you compare it to the former days,” Nagelsmann said, “I think it’s more fair than if you have no VAR.”
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