TikTok user Jenna Fraser posted a video of this life hack that left many viewers amazed they’d never though it before, with one person claiming it had even ‘changed my life’
From sandwiches to drinks, cucumbers are a great and healthy addition – but there’s no doubt they can be fiddly to chop up.
Luckily, one TikTok user shared a genius hack for slicing the green vegetable into tiny pieces in just 10 seconds. In a video clip called ‘Since a few people said they didn’t know this hack… here it is’, Jenna Fraser caused a storm on the social media site with many people stunned by her simple yet effective tip. A cucumber is seen on a chopping board with half of its wrapper peeled back. She then begins: “I feel like this is a life hack everyone need to know,” before cutting the cucumber lengthways down where the wrapper is, six times in total.
This is where the clever part kicks in as Jenna then quickly chops it widthways, leaving a pile of neatly diced cucumber ready to use however is needed. “Dicing a cucumber in 10 seconds,” she finishes. The post had more than 225,000 likes and around 1,300 comments, with one user commenting: “I am ashamed to say I never thought of doing it this way,” and another added: “Thank you so much for this! I’m from a household with lost culture and I never learned this kind of stuff so these kinds of videos are my primary reso.”
However, not everyone was as amazed by the hack because it’s something they already knew about. “I’ve been doing this my whole life”, “I thought everyone knew this,” and “Life hack? My grandmother used to do this,” wrote a handful of TikTok users. While a few users were more concerned about Jenna seemingly not washing the cucumber first. One wrote: “Wash the cucumber first lol,” and another said: “That cucumber looks unwashed…” Another queried: “If people don’t dice their cucumber like this.. how exactly are they dicing it, like slice by slice? I thought this was the standard way.” But a huge portion of viewers were left overall impressed, as one said: “Everyone commenting everyone knows this but I’ve never seen this before and it’s blown my mind a lil bit,” and another grateful user stated: “Thank you for changing my life.”