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Ketsuda Phoutinane & Danielle Kate Wroe

People just learning cooking hack discover 'brilliant' use of plastic pull tab

Even the most seasoned cook will find themselves accidentally pouring a gush of oil into a pan instead of a controlled drizzle.

If you don't pitch a bottle of oil just so, your perfectly cooked food could be swimming in the stuff before you know it. But rather than accept that as an unfortunate eventuality, one cooking fan has pointed out the obvious.

People have been gobsmacked to discover a use for the pull tab on oil bottles. Rather than throw them away, Cooking Cards on TikTok has demonstrated how they should be saved for a clever hack.

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