Salt And Pepper Shaker Hack-Mind Blown

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The opening query you read on this TikTok video is, "How old were you when you learned the proper way to use a salt and pepper shaker?"

I looked at this and said, "What?! It's salt and pepper shakers."

Then I watched.

Mind blown.

I'm not gonna answer the initial question, I'm just gonna say that I learned...this morning!

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I know, right? The shakers you find on restaurant tables (or even your table), usually have ridges around the base of the glass. TikTok user @Cody.93's video shows how to use the little ridges to your benefit.

You hold the pepper upside down, running the ridges on the bottom of the salt shaker around the ridges on the pepper. The vibrations cause the pepper to come out in the smoothest manner you've never accomplished conventionally. And to prove that, conventional is demonstrated, and you feel idiotic for ever doing it that way in the first place.

I think I want to start a blog just called, "Things I learned on TikTok."

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