Have You Been Using The Oxo Cube Correctly?

A woman named Kasie Riley posted the photo to Mums Advice 2 years ago with the caption: ‘Please tell me that I’m not the only one who didn’t know you’re supposed to crumble an OXO cube while it’s still wrapped to create a little flavour packet.

Even though Lynda Bellingham always sprinkled the cubes with her fingers in the classic ads, Kasie added: ‘I feel like my whole life’s been a lie. All those crumbly messes I could have avoided!’

Kasie’s post appeared to touch a nerve with the some Mums advice members, garnering more than 75,000 shares and 50,000 likes in just 2 days – and proving something of a revelation to many women across the Uk.

Mums advice admin Gemma Ann Potticary commented: ‘I always squished them – mostly because I didn’t like the crumbs on my hands- I’m going to pretend it’s just because I knew that was the right way.’

Heather Dawn seemed won over, writing: ‘I just tried it and it works. 40 years of messy fingers trying to crumble the cube are now over.’

However, not everybody was convinced by the revelation. Leanne Kidd wrote: ‘I am yet to see an oxo cube in a foil wrapper like this. The ones I have and bought last week are wrapped in, like, tin foil so if I tried this I’d be eating foil too lol.’

She was silenced by another Mums advice member, who posted a photo showing the correct technique for flattening an OXO cube.

Anita Savage wrote: ‘What’s all the fuss about? Crumble it in, or crumble it out. The Oxo police aren’t going to knock on your door.’ 

Soon the national press got hold of the story and it ran in several newspapers and even appeared on the famous day time program “This Morning”.

How do you use oxo cubes?