TikTok’s ‘Cucumber Guy’ Logan Moffitt Shows the Many Ways to Eat a Cucumber - The New York Times

“Sometimes you need to eat an entire cucumber,” the TikTok star Logan Moffitt says of the summer’s most riffable recipe. By Eric Kim Eric Kim’s first recipe for New York Times Cooking was a cucumber salad. Logan Moffitt has never been more hydrated. “Sometimes you need to eat an entire cucumber,” said Mr. Moffitt, a 23-year-old Ottawa-based content creator, in a video of a cucumber salad recipe he shared on TikTok early last month. Since then, he has posted dozens of videos of himself making a quick meal out of a simple English, or hothouse, cucumber to genuine fanfare. One of his posts has already drawn nearly 27 million views. Now, fans on the internet simply call him “cucumber guy.” Mr. Moffitt’s viewers seem entranced by his ability to take an affordable ingredient and twist it into myriad flavor combinations, encouraging people to riff in their own kitchens along the way. With a whole cucumber sliced on a mandoline, he has concocted jalapeño-popper salads, salt and vinegar salads

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