You’ve been spreading butter wrong your whole life: ‘explosive’ discovery
There’s gotta be a butter way with a low margarine for error.
A TikTok influencer divided social media after revealing the alleged correct way to spread those hotel pats of butter on bread — a technique that can apparently have “explosive” results if executed incorrectly.
A video of her revolutionary butter-spreading hack has amassed over 7.4 million views on TikTok and some can’t believe it’s not better.
“You’ve been spreading butter wrong your whole life,” TikToker Amy Sharpe wrote in the caption to the video.
She was referring to the pats of butter cloaked in golden wrappers that are a fixture of hotel buffets around the globe.
As this Post writer — and others can attest — these fun-sized bread spreads are notoriously hard to apply, with many victims ripping holes in their toast by pressing the oft-frozen fat berg too hard in one spot.
Even if the bread isn’t destroyed, breakfasters end up only being able to butter a one-by-one-inch square of their nosh.
Either that or they’re forced to wait ten minutes until the accouterment thaws to the consistency where it can be spread evenly.
Thankfully, Sharpe has devised a way to canvas the entire slice in an instant: In the aforementioned video, the TikTokker’s unnamed boyfriend can be seen using a fork to poke holes in the still-wrapped butter hunk.
He then squeezes the topping out over the bread in strands a la a Play-Doh noodle maker, effectively covering the entire slice.
Needless to say, this silly string-evoking technique didn’t exactly resonate with commenters, many of whom claimed it literally blew up in their face, redefining getting a “pat” on the head.
“I tried this at the hotel but it just exploded everywhere,” exclaimed one commenter, while another wrote, “I tried this and it exploded and I got butter all over my fingers lol.”
“Tried this and it spread everywhere except the damn fork holes,” declared a third of the cheese whiz-esque application method.
In other words, it appears that this supposedly fool-proof snack hack has a very low margarine for error.
Others didn’t take too kindly to the spread’s pasta-fication with one dissenter writing: “I want butter, not noodles.”
“We don’t live in hotels,” scoffed a third, suggesting that while the butter might be more applicable, the hack is not.
In a far more resonant eating tutorial earlier this week, a social media chef blew chocoholics’ collective minds after revealing the alleged — and little-known — correct way to break off a piece of a Toblerone bar.
