Tacos are great, but preparing them is a little annoying. You have to hold the shell on the plate with one hand while scooping up the fillings with the other, and you could really do with both hands to grab the meat, cheese and toppings.

People on TikTok have come up with a genius hack to avoid all of that and make Taco-filling a whole lot easier. If you eat the Mexican dish a lot at home, this trick will change your life – and you’ll be running to tell all of your friends.

A close-up of a young woman eating a hard-shelled Mexican taco. Credit: Karl Tapales (Getty Images)

Amazing Taco hack

The hack involves using a fork to hold the Taco shell up, meaning you have two hands to spoon all the fillings inside.

That gap between the fork prongs is the perfect size to rest the side of the Taco on, so it stands upright securely.

All you have to do is place the fork upside down on the table leaning onto the plate. Then, slot the Taco shell right in.

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The shell will stay firmly in place on the plate while you load up all of the fillings, and then it’s ready to pick up and eat.

“When you’re having Tacos and you got to prepare them, you use your fork to hold your Taco shell,” one guy said while demonstrating.

“Here’s something I didn’t know until my 30s. Taco shells can be held in place by a fork,” someone else added.

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People think it’s ‘genius’

TikTok users are totally obsessed, and the brilliant yet simple hack is blowing everyone’s minds.

One person wrote: “Best tip I’ve seen yet.”

“Mind blown!” said another.

A third person added: “Absolutely genius.”

“Game changer,” someone else said.

Another wrote: “That’s wild. my whole Earth has been shattered.”

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