Logan Moffitt offers tips for using a mandoline safely and avoiding injuries while making his viral cucumber salads. Every now and then, cooks collectively crown a new “it” vegetable , as if the produce aisle were the site of Hollywood-style auditions. Kale, of course, reigned for years.
Avocados topped so many toasts they became a generation’s mascot. And cauliflower rocketed to fame, although now that we’re doing everything with it (pizza crust? steak stand-in?), it’s starting to seem like a cruciferous Kim Kardashian (that is, overexposed). By now, it’s clear that the 15 minutes of fame has arrived for an unlikely main character: the cucumber.
The famously cool vegetable is suddenly hot, and that’s mostly due to Ottawa-based content creator Logan Moffitt, a.k.a.
“Cucumber Guy”, who kicked off a trend in July with an intriguing catchphrase: “Sometimes you need to eat an entire cucumber .” Since then, he’s racked up millions of views for TikTok videos in which he slices cucumbers into plastic jars, adds dressings and other accoutrements, and then shakes the whole concoction into crunchy, flavourful salads..