A Viral Hack for How to Peel Garlic: Watch the Video Here

I've always been a fan of a simple yet wild clever kitchen hacks that make up mundane tasks faster and easier. My most recent discovery was this trick for juicing a lemon-without using a knife. It sounds impossible, I know. But it's not.

Neither is my newest find: a maneuver for peeling garlic that seems to defy everything I've been taught about, how to peel garlic.

In the video posted to Twitter, you can see someone holding a head of garlic (unpeeled of course) ) to twist each clove straight out of its shell at an impressively quick rate.

Unsurprisingly, the video has swept like wildfire across the internet-even our beloved Chrissy Teigen has retweeted the video to her millions upon millions of followers. Her caption, true to form: "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT."

But my biggest question is: Does this viral garlic-peeling hack actually work? Much like its lemon and pineapple hack predecessors, the answer is a bit of a mixed bag. One of Chrissy's Twitter followers. "This person is obviously more proficient, but it just worked out when I stabbed and twisted it," Patrick Alba wrote. Like us, he felt "so betrayed for not being taught this before."

Others, though, reported less success. Twitter user Rebecca Reid declared, "We DOES NOT WORK." And there is an important point to be made about safety: You probably do not want to try this hack unless you're quite skilled with a paring knife, otherwise you might run the risk of cutting yourself.

Still, this newfound garlic-peeling wisdom has made me think that I should go to the front of the street, pick up a head of garlic, and give it a try for myself. Because, you can bet I'll be making this roast chicken with 40 gloves (yes, 40) for dinner tonight-and probably every night for the rest of this week. And do not worry, I'll update this post to let you know the results.

Erin Alexander is the Assistant Editor of Partner Content at Food52, covering pop culture, travel, internet foods, and all things #sponsored. Formerly at Men's Journal, Men's Fitness, Us Weekly, and Hearst, she currently lives in New York City.