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 in hope: "Omg life saver - my toastie machine just destroys my toastie. Hopefully this works."
While a third person praised: "Mind-blown. Would never have occurred to me. As I also threw one away as had cheese/beans in places I couldn't get to so burnt. If I get another I will do this! Thanks."
Others, however, weren't keen on the advice and said they'd continue to make toasties their own cost-effective ways. "I like my toastie to look toasted," one person explained. "Yes it's lovely and clean but that's not its job. Also you just been wasting time and money make a toastie that's not toasted."
A second TikTok user added: "Butter each side and then wipes down with a cloth. Just a waste of baking paper otherwise." And a third said: "Or just wipe down with a damp cloth after you're done. A lot of them have removable plates."
