Anyone who uses a toastie maker will be aware of the frustration at having to clean up any mess afterwards. Unless you're an expert, you will have experienced cheese or tomato purée leaking through your bread at some point - ingredients that manage to weld themselves to the inside and outside of the appliance . Thankfully, a lifestyle expert has taken to TikTok to offer a simple piece of advice to keep your toastie maker clean - and all it requires is one common household item.
User Major Mum Hacks (@majormumhacks) detailed her method in a short video shared to her 232,000 followers. "Toastie makers are a nightmare to clean, so this hack will save you from doing that," she penned in the clip's caption. "It keeps all the juices inside the baking paper; there isn’t a risk of fire because there’s no flame, unlike a toaster.
" Major Mum Hacks' video began with her neatly laying out a folded sheet of baking paper on the bottom surface of her machine. She then inserted her sandwich in between the layers of paper, before closing the appliance ready to heat. "Believe it or not, this toastie maker is two-years old and look how clean it is just by doing this hack," she enthused.
Once ready, Major Mum Hacks removed her now-toasted sandwich, showing that excess cheese had indeed been caught in the paper, leaving no unwanted mess whatsoever. "Genius!" hailed one TikTok user in response. "So many people saying waste of paper.
I'd re-use. Life is too short for cleaning!" Another penned.
