Man Goes Viral for Inventive Cucumber Salad Recipes (Unique)

• Logan Moffitt has beloved cucumbers since he was a child. Rising up he used to convey complete cucumbers in his lunchbox.
• The Ottawa, Canada, native began sharing his cucumber recipe movies on TikTok in 2021, which have since gone viral. He now has 4.3 million followers.
• Two of his hottest movies embrace him consuming cucumbers on a jet ski and making a cucumber salad whereas treading water.
• Now, the 23-year-old desires to experiment with new flavors and cucumber recipes.

Logan Moffitt‘s favourite sort of cucumber is English, though he additionally enjoys Persian and Korean-style ones. (Sure, he can inform the distinction between them.)

The Ottawa, Canada, native, who goes by @logagm on TikTok, has been obsessive about cucumbers since childhood. He remembers that if a meal appeared to lack greens, he would add cucumbers. In highschool, he would commonly convey complete cucumbers in his lunchbox as a result of he didn’t have the vitality to chop them. He’d garnish them with salt and pepper from a plastic bag he packed.

Whereas Moffitt’s love for the crunchy vegetable is lengthy standing, sharing his ardour on social media is new. Since he started posting about cucumbers on TikTok in 2021 — particularly his inventive cucumber salad recipes — he has garnered over 4.3 million followers. However he says that is just the start.

“Cucumbers are a way of life,” Moffitt, 23, tells PEOPLE solely. “I hope I can get as many individuals into cucumbers as potential as a result of they’re actually good for you, they style nice and make for a wholesome snack.”

When requested about his second favourite vegetable, he settles on an onion. “Oh, I used to be going to say cherry tomatoes, however that is fruit, proper?”

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Most of Moffitt’s cucumber salad recipes are his personal creations. Every recipe takes about 10 minutes to make, and he usually makes use of components which are already readily available for lots of the less complicated ones. Amongst his favourite recipes is his avocado salmon cream cheese bagel cucumber salad. Each time he eats it, he thinks to himself, “Rattling, that is good.”

He usually finds inspiration for brand spanking new recipes as he scrolls by TikTok, watching different meals movies. Up to now, nothing Moffitt has made has upset him. He’s realized that “every part can go on cucumber.”

“So, I normally flip different meals into cucumber salads,” he explains. “For instance, I made an avocado bagel right into a cucumber salad. Right now, I made a jalapeño popper cucumber salad. It’s about reworking random meals into cucumber salads.”

Moffitt additionally will get recipe concepts from feedback on his posts. One concept he is excited to attempt is Mexican road corn-inspired cucumbers.

When Moffitt began his first video on TikTok in his “Typically You Must Eat an Whole Cucumber” format, he did it only for enjoyable. When he seen individuals favored it, he determined to publish just a few extra movies in the identical format. From there, he noticed it simply continued to develop.

Two of his hottest movies embrace him consuming cucumbers on a jet ski and making a cucumber salad whereas treading water.

“‘Typically You Must Eat an Whole Cucumber’ grew to become a success, and I simply went with it,” he provides. “The feedback are normally actually humorous. There’s this one video the place a man jokes that I’m not simply ‘cucumber man,’ but additionally ‘kimchi man’ and ‘chilly noodle man’ who occurs to be cucumber man. I really like studying all of the humorous jokes viewers make.”

Earlier than beginning the collection, Moffitt says he ate cucumbers usually, however now, as a result of elevated curiosity from his followers, he is consuming a minimum of two a day.

“I used to purchase three to 6 cucumbers at a time, however now I’ve upped the quantity. I posted a video the opposite day of a grocery haul the place I purchased 15 cucumbers,” he says. “Fortunately, I do Instacart orders, so I haven’t got to work together with anybody whereas shopping for 15 cucumbers. That is a win.”

Now as he continues to discover new recipes and share them together with his followers, he is interested by experimenting with an entire new taste class with the vegetable.

“I have been serious about attempting dessert cucumbers,” he says. “The primary one I wish to attempt is peanut butter and jelly. I sampled it on a slice of cucumber, and it was good. So, I plan to make a complete cucumber salad like that.”