A PENNY pinching Brit has gone viral after sharing a “genius” cooking hack to reduce his energy bills – but some think the method takes far too long.
Adrian Ghervan, from London, sparked a frenzy after showing his TikTok followers how he heats up his dinners.
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His cost-effective trick sees him use seven tea lights to fry an EGG.
In the video – which has racked up over 8.6 million views and 780,000 likes – savvy Adrian places tealight candles on his cooker.
He then lights them and starts frying an egg – and even claims the technique “worked well”.
Adrian said: “I came up with this hack because I was thinking with all the uncertainty in the world right now what will happen if the gas gets cut off – or become so expensive we couldn’t afford it.
“So I thought of an alternative and it worked well”.
It took Adrian around 10 minutes to heat up the oil, with another three minutes needed to get the egg fried properly.
Adrian’s followers were impressed by the cooking hack.
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One person joked: “We may have to resort to this action if [energy] prices keep going up.”
While another went as far as to praise the trick as “genius” and “really clever”.
But others were not so convinced – with many noting the time it would take to get food cooked.
One person said: “Would take an hour to cook that one egg.”
While another user added: “Pasta would take you like five or six years.”
A few people were concerned the food wouldn’t taste very good if it was cooked this way.
They also highlighted possible fire risks if candles weren’t blown out after cooking.
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