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TikToker Tara Woodcox spoke out after she faced backlash following a video of her suggesting guests clean their underwear in hotel coffee makers went viral.
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Tara Woodcox is explaining her not so sanitary hack.
After her November 2025 “Travel Hack video” suggesting hotel guests use the room’s coffee maker to clean their underwear went viral, the TikToker addressed her critics, clarifying her experience with the controversal method.
“I’ve never actually done that, but it’s really funny you guys,” she said in a video shared on TikTok Feb. 23. “The amount of you guys that think...”
As for proof the hack caught heat in her own family, she was then interrupted by someone in the background asking, “What even makes you think to do that?”
After Tara said she “heard it from a friend,” the person exclaimed, “Your friend isn’t very smart.”
That feedback aside, Tara thanked the people who were in the comments getting into “full blown arguments” in her defense and further explained origin of her post.
“It was more of something that I posted to like to be like, ‘Why not to use the coffee pots?’” she said. “I learned that from a friend that was a flight attendant and I was like, ‘Ew.’ But I’ve never been into those Keurigs anyway not only because of the underwear, just cause they’re dirty and no hotel cleans them.”
“But the underwear part, I don’t know what to tell you guys,” she added. “It wasn’t real because you guys are having way too much fun thinking it’s real and it’s whatever. Better to just think what you guys want to think.”
Indeed, the public had thoughts when Tara shared her original video on Nov. 5 and deemed it “one of the coolest tricks ever.”
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“All you have to do is put your underwear where you would put the coffee grounds, you close it. You press brew and it puts scorching hot water through it,” she said as she sat in front of a hotel coffee machine and did the demo sans underwear. “You guys, then the hair dryer in the bathroom, you blow dry those bad boys and you got yourself a cleaner pair of underwear. I swear.”
Unfortunately for Tara, a lot of viewers did not agree, as they took to the comments to share alternatives to Tara’s method with one user writing,
“Other options: 1) BUY new underwear 2) Wash the underwear when you shower 3) Wash in the sink 4) BE PREPARED AND PACK EXTRA UNDERWEAR.”
While others pointed out that Tara’s goal to deter people from using the coffee makers was a success, writing, “If your mission was to get everyone on the planet to stop using hotel coffee makers you just did it. Congrats!”
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