Cucumbers in summer? That’s revolutionary.
Food on TikTok is often grotesque and oh dear On the deliciousness spectrum. It turns out that recipes designed to go viral aren’t always the best at producing food that’s actually enjoyable to eat.
Like the viral feta pasta? Honestly, it was pretty tasty. But for every good recipe, there’s also some awful air-fried fruit and stuffed, deep-fried, Doritos-coated nasty treats that still get views. But TikTok’s latest food obsession is… actually It’s a great dish. Simple and delicious. It’s basically a recipe for a lightly marinated cucumber salad, but app users are loving it.
It’s the perfect summer side dish, and makes sense considering it’s the classic accompaniment to another summer favorite: fried chicken.
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As far as I know, it all started in July when TikTok creator @logagm, real name Logan, posted an epic recipe for “eating a whole cucumber.” Logan, who shares a ton of Korean recipes on the platform, thinly slices cucumbers and lightly marinates them in soy sauce, fish sauce, sugar, MSG, sesame oil, garlic, scallions, and sesame. All you have to do is shake it up in a quart-sized container and you have a quick cucumber salad. The recipe has been viewed more than 9 million times.
Logan, apparently sensing the moment, has been posting a ton of cucumber recipes, mostly Asian-inspired and lightly pickled or marinated, all of which are racking up millions of views. And of course, TikTok is now obsessed with cucumbers. Do a search and you’ll find cucumber salad videos all over the app. Super-popular creator Alix Earle has made one. @boywithnojob has one. Seriously, just look around and see how many recipes there are.
Given American summers, this makes sense. Cucumbers are so refreshing on a hot day. Cucumbers have almost no flavor on their own, but they complement the flavors of a marinade so well. As someone who loves food and likes to cook sensible dishes with good ingredients, it’s so cool to see people talking so much online about a simple, delicious dish and a humble vegetable (cucumbers are technically a fruit, but they are a vegetable)
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As long as summer continues, TikTok actually It’s a great place to get recipes for side dishes. Sometimes you just want to eat a whole cucumber.