The ‘proper’ way to de-ice your car uses £1.25 John Lewis kids’ essential you may already have in back of your cupboard
A WEIRD item every household will have is the perfect tool to de-ice your windscreen.
The humble lunchbox protects fruit, sandwiches, and crisps, but it has a hidden talent at winter time.
One TikToker has revealed that a plastic container can also be used to wipe away ice that forms on your windscreen in the morning.
User randomcarl00 posted the nine-second clip showing them wiping the container across the glass with the ice falling off it.
“How to properly de ice your car,” he says with a winky face emoji.
A plastic lunchbox sells for £2.50 at Waitrose, but most of us will have one in our children’s school bags or Tupperware containers hanging around the back of a kitchen draw.
Commenters on the video questioned how thick the ice was on the windscreen if the plastic was able to take care of it.
“Up here in Scotland a fookin steam iron doesn’t touch the frost,” said one commenter.
“That’s frost…not ice….big difference,” said another.
“I have more frost on my bag of oven chips,” said a third.
Others saw the humour in using a lunchbox.
“Brill idea then ur lunch still cold,” one poster said.
“You put the heated screen on then making out it’s easy to de-ice with a tub,” another said.
It comes as a car expert explained why a viral winter hack could have catastrophic consequences for your windscreen.
The team at Swansway Motor Group urged drivers to steer clear of the dangerous defrosting trick.
The hack, which involved pouring a bottle of vodka over the windscreen to prevent it from frosting up, has gained popularity on TikTok.
The science behind it is that alcohol has a lower freezing point that water and so coating the glass in a strongly alcoholic drink will stop condensation from freezing on it.
However, the specialists warned against the potential unintended consequences of this approach.