Good Samaritan shows how a colander should be used, and Twitter could not be more stunned

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What were we thinking?

Earlier this week, a Twitter user known as Daibella (@Daibellaaa) stumbled across a neat pasta making hack while thumbing through her Facebook feed, and made it her sacred duty to spread this game-changing stroke of spaghetti genius throughout internet land.

Taking to Twitter three days ago, Daibella posted three images showing a regular colander that had been inversed, placed into a pot of pasta and strained straight from the pot — rather than tipping the molten contents into the utensil over the sink, and then hauling back into the pot again.

The good Samaritan captioned the pictures: "Good morning to everyone. Just saw this on Facebook and spazzed."

Twitter quickly caught wind of the hack, and it's safe to say a lot of people were stunned.

To give you an idea of what a revelation this was to some, in just a few days the post has already been liked by more than 73,000 users and shared more than 34,000 times, with hundreds more taking to Twitter to weigh in on the colander debate.

Yep, not everyone sits in the pro inverse colander camp, with some people pointing out safety concerns around the revolutionary technique.

While the time-saving colander might not be for everyone, we admire the think-outside-the-box ingenuity of the mastermind who came up with it, and will definitely be putting it to the test in the future. Watch this space.