[Janelle Ward]

The things you see on social media! A TikTok post has supposedly tallied almost 50 million views. Pause for a minute and try to guess what it’s about.

It’s a video of a woman boiling her wooden spoons – to remove the ‘filth’ – and she has triggered a craze.

Wooden spoons that have been used for months and even years are foul, many people believe, soaking up the remains of every meal you’ve stirred with them.

How to get them clean? Boil them.

Apparently the craze is not new as in 2020 people were soaking their spoons in boiling water and reporting the results on Facebook. That was in response to advice from then MasterChef judge Matt Preston who shared his ‘wooden spoon test’ in 2016.

“Stick an old one in a cup of boiling water,” he wrote, adding that any swirling brown residue indicates it’s time to bin that spoon.

Do you have spoons that should be boiled? Or should they be binned?

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