This will blow your mind: You've been unwrapping stock cubes wrong
<p>It's one of the easiest ways to add flavour to your dishes – and it's about to get even easier.</p>
<p>A handy hack on how to open stock cubes is causing a stir online, as it seems many of us have been doing it all wrong.</p>
<p>Forget crumbling up the cube after opening the silver foil packaging – it seems that the packaging was actually designed to be flattened.</p>
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<p>Simply open up the flaps on the side, flatten them out and then crumble the cube inside the package, turning it into a powder that's a heck of a lot easier to add to your dish.</p>
<p>The tip first made the rounds online in 2016, but it seems a whole new group of stock cube fans have recently stumbled across it, and they've had plenty to say about it on social media.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">OMG in all my cooking years I’ve only just discovered how to open an oxo cube! Anyone else know that it squashed into a sachet which you tear open?? Doh! <a href="https://t.co/2opyqBb9rg">pic.twitter.com/2opyqBb9rg</a></p>
— w7emporium (@w7emporium) <a href="https://twitter.com/w7emporium/status/1041967627525140481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">18 September 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr">I’m 54 yrs on this planet and never knew until today that you should squish an Oxo cube into a sachet type shape and simply tear off a corner and pour away - no bits of foil and no messy fingers. One gets wise with age one does. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/oxosecrets?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#oxosecrets</a> <a href="https://t.co/YynlQ7KLYy">pic.twitter.com/YynlQ7KLYy</a></p>
— Ex Fed Paul Herdman (@DyfedPowysFed) <a href="https://twitter.com/DyfedPowysFed/status/1037455045934149632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">5 September 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr">I have spent years unwrapping Oxo cubes gettin beefy fingers and it’s been a goddamn packet all along. Mind.blown. 🤯 <a href="https://t.co/ehkBoqR6GQ">pic.twitter.com/ehkBoqR6GQ</a></p>
— 💃🏼Glen Scott💃🏼 (@glenrules) <a href="https://twitter.com/glenrules/status/1042390871159844865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">19 September 2018</a></blockquote>
<p>Will you be trying this genius hack? Let us know in the comments below. </p>
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