The secret thread trick for grilling without messStop tearing up! This is how you open a charcoal bag correctly

Sensitivity instead of force! The charcoal bag can be opened quickly and easily using a thread

Anyone who wants to grill and needs good old coal often tears the bag open. However, something almost always goes wrong. Closing it afterwards is also not much fun and only works to a limited extent if the edge is uneven. When you're wearing it, you get annoyed when individual pieces of coal fall out and cause unsightly black spots. However, the mess is all the more annoying when you know that all of this could have been prevented!

Charcoal bags usually have a closed seam at the top that is held together by a loose thread. This is used to open the packaging quickly and easily – without any effort! We'll tell you how it works.

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Open the charcoal bag correctly: This is how the thread trick works!

The cleanest way to open a charcoal bag is to loosen its seam. All you have to do is loosen the small loop at the beginning of the seam, as Meeresglut explains on his TikTok account. You can do this by pulling the end of the string through its last loop. This should allow the entire end knot to be released with a gentle pull.

Now the end of the string no longer hangs on the side of the double seam, but on the side where only a single thread can be seen. Now all you have to do is pull the thread gently and the seam will gradually openso that at the end you have a completely undamaged but opened bag in front of you. Much more pleasant than wildly ripping the bag open, right?

By the way: It's not just charcoal bags that are closed with such seams. According to the online magazine Utopia, cat litter, potato bags and flour packets are also more often sewn.

Sources used: Own RTL research, TikTok/kuestenglut, Utopia