They feel like she can’t wok on water.
TikTok is rife with questionable food content, from powdered yogurt to Sprite-soaked gummy bears.
Now, one of the platform’s epicures has been figuratively pelted with vegetables for recommending that people fry their food with cucumber water in a video with 17 million views
The German gourmand, who goes by @jana.vill, wrote in the clip’s caption that she learned the unorthodox, non-stick hack from an “Italian grandmother” and will never use oil again.
In the footage, she is seen slicing off the tip of the jumbo vegetable — which is about 96% water — and then rubbing the cut end on the bottom of her frying pan to lubricate it like one would with a stick of butter.
She then cracks an egg and fries it in the pan, seemingly amazed that the cucumber water did the trick.
The content creator uses a spatula to scrape the egg off the bottom of the pan with ease, before placing the finished product on a plate with sliced cucumbers.
The clip concludes with a shot of the pan, which is free of oil and swiped clean, save for some egg white debris.
Unfortunately, her oil alternative didn’t go “over easy” with viewers, some of whom claimed that the so-called Teflon effect occurred because she was using a non-stick pan.
“Do it on a stainless steel pan and then I’ll be convinced,” scoffed one critic, while another wrote, “Girl it’s the NON STICK PAN you’re using.”
“The frying pan is gonna have very smooth skin,” joked a third, referencing cucumber’s alleged dermis-enhancing properties.
Others questioned her claim that she learned the hack from an Italian grandmother.
“As an Italian, absolutely not,” one naysayer said. “No Italian grandma would replace oil.”
“Bro, an Italian grandmother would NEVER replace oil with ANYTHING,” agreed another.
This isn’t the first time TikTok “gourmets” have been ridiculed over alleged cooking techniques.
Recently, zoomer cooks were roasted online after espousing the health benefits of “water-based cooking” — with critics claiming that they’ve simply discovered “soup.”
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