Egg Yolk Separation Just Got a Whole Lot Easier Thanks to This TikTok Hack

It starts out with a woman demonstrating how to pick up an egg yolk after rubbing her fingers with a little garlic.

"So you're telling me for 40 years of baking cakes, trying to figure out how to separate the yolk from the white, I could've been doing this?" he asks, incredibly skeptical.

The user pans his camera down to a cutting board that contains a bowl with an egg yolk/white in it, and a peeled clove of garlic next to it. He begins to rub his fingers on the clove before heading to the egg.

The user picks up the egg yolk with very little effort. He then brings it up to his face, joking and pretending that he's going to eat it whole.

The video, which was posted in late December, went viral in a matter of days. It already has an amazing 37.7 million views, as well as three million likes and thousands of comments.

According to some users, this isn't the only garlic hack around. Many were amazed by how much a single clove of garlic can do.

There were many who felt that peeling the garlic clove was more effort than it was worth in this case. Others were worried that the taste of the garlic would transfer to the cake, though many pointed out that there probably wasn't enough contact with garlic for that to happen.

Not only was the TikTok surprisingly informative, but it was also pretty funny. Some even joked about how feeding chickens garlic might result in yolks and whites being separated before the eggs are even laid.

Apparently, garlic is good for creating a border when you want to cook an egg in a larger pan. Of course, some were pretty hesitant to try that hack out.

If you don't want to use garlic, you can just use a water bottle. Or go classic and separate the egg by using its shell.

h/t Mirror