Cheese grater has secret use for potatoes and Brits are absolutely floored

The common cheese grater has various gradients and sections - but more often that not we resign to just using one.

A household staple, the cheese grater is used for finely chopping up blocks of cheese for all kinds of meals. But TikTokerand mum, who uses the social media handle Nika Life Hacks Daily, left the internet in a spiral (quite literally) after showing a cooking hack which doesn't involve cheese at all.

Instead of a standard block of cheddar, she used a potato. And it created a spiral effect, which is something officially called the tornado potato by the likes of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

Using one side of a cheese grater with wider inserts to grind against the potato, the 12-second video gave a step-by-step tutorial on how to make this viral potato spiral.

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She starts by taking a full-sized potato and putting it through one side of the cheese grater, twisting it until the ‘spiral’ potato forms. Using a stick, she pokes it in the middle, spreading it until it forms a long potato skewer.

Using cooking spraying oil and other spices to give it some extra flavour, she then adds them to the oven to roast - and the results look mouth-watering.

Racking up almost a million likes, thousands of comments were also left by viewers who expressed their shock, many applauding Nika’s creativity and initiative - and how delicious it turned out to be.

One said in capital letters: “THIS IS WHY I HAVE TIKTOK,” with a second one adding: “Wait is THAT how you use that part of the cheese grater!?!?!”

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“You literally changed my life,” a third one commented. A fourth one wrote: “What, cheese graters need instructions for us to get the best use out of it, this is so cool.”

Nika is known for posting daily hacks and DIY tips, including how to cut watermelons properly and even how to open a car after locking the keys inside.

Another of her videos, which also accumulated over a million views, was on how to fix a stuck roll of aluminium foil.

Have you tried this potato hack using a cheese grater? Let us know in the comments!