You've been straining your noodles the wrong way; chef shares the correct way to use the kitchen tool

After boiling the noodles, do you also throw them into a strainer and then toss them back into the pot? Well, turns out you've been doing it all wrong. 

Instead of the traditional method, a chef on TikTok recommended a better strategy to utilize the kitchen tool. In her video, the chef is seen placing the strainer (which is about the same size as the pan) on top of the boiled noodles like a lid and then draining the water out.

Once the water is drained, she tosses the noodles around in the pot. With more than 3.1 million views, the viral kitchen hack left social media users impressed as they've been using the utensil the wrong way. 

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