A TikTok post with almost 50m views has triggered a craze for deep-cleaning wooden kitchen utensils in boiling water. So just how filthy are mine?
Should you ever need to explain TikTok to the uninitiated, sell it this way: a woman in America boiled her wooden spoons and made a video of it, which 49 million people have watched so far.
The woman in question, Lulaboo Jenkins, is not alone. All across TikTok, people are boiling their wooden spoons to see what disgusting gunk leaches out of them. Wooden spoons are foul, so the lesson goes, harbouring the remains of every meal you’ve stirred with them. Faced with this startling information, I could think of no other way forward: I had to boil my spoons.
