You’ve been buttering your toast all wrong – don’t spread it with a knife if you want a ‘god tier’ breakfast
IF you find your poorly spread butter rips and ruins your toast each morning – you may have been spreading it wrong.
Candid Cuisine took to TikTok to demonstrate the best way to apply your butter if you want a god-tier breakfast.
While you may find stabbing at it with a knife for a few minutes may do the trick, by the time you’ve actually got a knob of butter on your knife, your toast has already gone cold and the butter just will not spread properly.
You may as well give up and reach for the Nutella at that point.
But luckily the food guru posted a 19-second clip that will show you exactly how to spread your butter successfully.
The video begins by showing viewers what the wrong way to spread butter is – and it’s a common maneuver.
“If you’ve been spreading your butter like this, you’re doing it wrong,” the TikToker wrote.
They demonstrated using a butter knife to cut a thin slither of butter off of the block before using the flat edge of the knife to spread it.
But the butter remained still and stuck and was not spreading across the slice of toast at all.
The account owner then cut to a clip of some butter laid out on a towel and wrote: “This is the right way to put butter on bread according to Jean Yves Bordier”.
Bordier is an artisan butter maker and the son and grandson of iconic butter and cheese makers in the Parisian markets.
The TikToker then cuts another smaller triangular piece of butter off of the block and says: “Put a dollop of butter on bread”.
They swipe it onto the corner of the toast and advise: “Don’t spread it like foie gras”.
“Don’t use the teeth of the knife,” they add.
Instead, the culinary expert suggests using the tip of the knife to spread the butter more neatly, cleanly, and evenly.
The handy post racked up over 41,000 likes and over 440 comments from people who were mind-blown by the hack.
One said: “Just what we need, someone telling us how to put butter on bread. I’ve been wrong 40years, oh my wasted life”.
Another wrote: “At this point I think I’m doing everything wrong in my life”.
And it’s not just butter that people have been consuming wrong.
A Pringle’s revelation hit TikTok with one man revealing that we have all been eating the crisps in the wrong way.
A-A-Ron states that when most people eat Pringles they place the crisp’s saddle shape comfortably sitting lengthways along the tongue with the edges facing down.
But he says most of the flavouring is actually on the ‘top’ of the crisp or on the other side which most people have facing up towards the top of the mouth.
Another food guru revealed that you may have been making mashed potatoes all wrong – as the dish will turn out creamier if you stop boiling them in water.
According to Rosie Gill, director of Milk Street Cooking School, if you want to make the best mashed potatoes, you need to boil your potatoes in milk.