Andrew Gatt’s insanely simple hack for preventing kitchen spills goes viral

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Cooking up a great hack! Man’s VERY simple hack for avoiding liquid drips in the kitchen goes viral

  • TikTok user Andrew Gatt shared the trick on the video-sharing app last week 
  • After pouring the eggs into the pan, he demonstrates how to put the bowl back on the counter without any of the leftover egg dripping down the sides 
  • Instead of simply righting it, he turns it all the way upside down and rights it on the opposite side, so the egg drips back into the bowl
  • The video has been viewed 1.7 million times so far 

By Carly Stern For Dailymail.com

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Amateur home cooks who are tired of kitchen messes may be relieved to learn a seriously simple kitchen hack that keeps leftover liquid from spilling onto the counter.

TikTok user Andrew Gatt shared the trick on the video-sharing app last week while frying up some scrambled eggs on the stove.

After pouring the eggs into the pan, he demonstrated how to put the used bowl back down on the counter without any of the leftover egg dripping down the sides.

Ta-da! TikTok user Andrew Gatt shared a trick on the video-sharing app last week while frying up some scrambled eggs on the stove

Next steps: After pouring the eggs into the pan, he demonstrates how to put the bowl back on the counter without any of the leftover egg dripping down the sides

'If I pour this egg into this pan and turn it back this way,' he says, gesturing to indicate turning the bowl back upwards in an expected way, 'and put it down on the counter, it's gonna drip down the side'

Next steps: After pouring the eggs into the pan, he demonstrates how to put the bowl back on the counter without any of the leftover egg dripping down the sides

Andrew’s video focuses in on the stove, and as it begins, he is finishing pouring a bowl of beaten eggs into a skillet.

But before he puts the empty bowl — which just has a bit of raw egg still clinging to it — back on the counter, he pauses to narrate.

‘If I pour this egg into this pan and turn it back this way,’ he says, gesturing to indicate turning the bowl back upwards in an expected way, ‘and put it down on the counter, it’s gonna drip down the side.’

‘And it’s gonna be on the outside,’ he says.

This would me a few droplets of egg — or whatever other liquid a person might have in a bowl after pouring — would end up on the counter and need to be cleaned up.

'If I continue to turn like this, the drip will go back into the bowl,' he says

Here, he demonstrates not setting the bowl back upward, but continuing to turn it until it's entirely upside down, then righting it in the other direction

‘If I continue to turn like this, the drip will go back into the bowl,’ he says, continuing to turn it until it’s entirely upside down, then righting it in the other direction

'I can put it on the counter and I don't have an extra mess to clean up on the counter,' he says, showing how the egg doesn't spill over the rim

‘I can put it on the counter and I don’t have an extra mess to clean up on the counter,’ he says, showing how the egg doesn’t spill over the rim

But, Andrew notes, there’s another way. 

‘If I continue to turn like this, the drip will go back into the bowl,’ he says.

Here, he demonstrates not setting the bowl back upward, but continuing to turn it until it’s entirely upside down, then righting it in the other direction.

‘I can put it on the counter and I don’t have an extra mess to clean up on the counter,’ he says, showing how the egg doesn’t spill over the rim.

The ‘hack’ certainly seems incredibly simple, but it appears to have amazed or at least intrigued TikTok users, who have watched it 1.7 million times so far. 

Over 67,000 people have liked the video, and nearly 2,000 have left comments.