- Logan Moffitt has loved cucumbers since he was a child. Growing up, he used to bring whole cucumbers in his lunch box.
- The Ottawa, Canada native started sharing his cucumber recipe videos on TikTok in 2021, which have since gone viral. He now has 4.3 million followers.
- Two of his most popular videos include him eating cucumbers on a jet ski and making a cucumber salad while treading water.
- Now, the 23-year-old wants to experiment with new flavors and recipes for cucumbers.
Logan Moffitt’s favorite type of cucumber is English, although he also likes Persian and Korean cucumbers. (Yes, he can tell the difference.)
A native of Ottawa, Canada, who goes by the name @logagm on TikTok, has been obsessed with cucumbers since childhood. He recalls that if a meal seemed to lack vegetables, he would add cucumbers. In high school, he would regularly bring whole cucumbers in his lunchbox because he didn’t have the energy to cut them. He would garnish them with salt and pepper from the plastic bag he packed.
While Moffitt’s love of crunchy vegetables has been around for a long time, sharing his passion on social media is new. Since he started posting about cucumbers on TikTok in 2021 — specifically his creative cucumber salad recipes — he’s amassed over 4.3 million followers. But he says this is just the beginning.
“Cucumbers are a lifestyle,” Moffitt, 23, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I hope I can get as many people as possible to try cucumbers because they are really good, they taste great and they are a healthy snack.”
When asked about his second favorite vegetable, he chose onions. “Oh, I was going to say cherry tomatoes, but that’s a fruit, right?”
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Logan Moffitt holds his cucumber salad.
Logan Moffitt
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Most of Moffitt’s cucumber salad recipes are his own creations. Each recipe takes about 10 minutes to make, and for many of the simpler ones, he often uses ingredients he already has on hand. Among his favorite recipes is his avocado and salmon salad with cream cheese and cucumbers. Every time he eats it, he thinks to himself, “Damn, that’s good.”
She often finds inspiration for new recipes while scrolling through TikTok, watching other food videos. So far, nothing Moffitt has done has disappointed him. He realized that “everything is possible on a cucumber.”
“So I usually turn other foods into cucumber salads,” he explains. “For example, I made an avocado bagel into a cucumber salad. Today I made a jalapeño popper cucumber salad. It’s about turning random foods into cucumber salads.”
Moffitt also gets recipe ideas from comments on her posts. One idea he wants to try is corn-inspired Mexican street pickles.
When Moffitt launched his first TikTok video in his “Sometimes You Gotta Eat a Whole Cucumber” format, he did it just for fun. When he noticed that people liked it, he decided to post a few more videos in the same format. From there he saw that it only continued to grow.
Two of his most popular videos include him eating cucumbers on a jet ski and making a cucumber salad while treading water.
“Sometimes you have to eat the whole cucumber” became a hit, and I just went with it, he adds. “The comments are usually really funny. There’s one video where a guy jokes that I’m not only a ‘cucumber guy’ but also a ‘kimchi guy’ and a ‘cold noodle guy’ who happens to be a cucumber guy. I love reading all the funny jokes that viewers make.”
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Before the series began, Moffitt says he used to eat cucumbers a lot, but now, due to increased interest from his followers, he eats at least two a day.
“I used to buy three to six cucumbers at a time, but now I’ve increased the number. The other day I posted a video of a grocery haul where I bought 15 cucumbers,” he says. “Luckily, I order through Instacart, so I don’t have to interact with anyone while I’m buying 15 cucumbers. That’s a win-win.”
Now, as he continues to explore new recipes and share them with his fans, he is interested in experimenting with a whole new category of flavors with vegetables.
“I was thinking about trying dessert cucumbers,” he says. “The first one I want to try is the peanut butter and jelly. I tried it on a cucumber slice and it was good. So I’m planning to make a whole cucumber salad like that.”
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