'It cuts out the faff': young people turn to TikTok for cooking tips

Viral video app has been a popular source of quick, no-nonsense recipes for teenagers in lockdown

Anna Spearing started baking when she was about eight or nine, making ginger biscuits in the family kitchen in Southampton and watching endless YouTube videos full of really yummy ingredients", in a period she refers to as the simpler times".

Now 15, she is still baking, though the recipes have become more diverse, and the videos snappier and much shorter. Having discovered TikTok, the social video-sharing platform used by all her friends, she now frequently cooks dishes based on its 60-second viral videos, soundtracked by earworm songs and edited at rat-a-tat speed.