According to Tara Woodcox, a content creator on Instagram, if you have ever run out of clean underwear on a trip, a coffee making machine may be your saviour. “Say you’re travelling and you didn’t pack enough underwear and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, what am I going to wear tomorrow?’ Every room has a coffee pot thing in it. All you have to do is put your underwear where you put the coffee grounds, you close it, you press brew and it puts scorching hot water through it,” she explained in an Instagram Reel which has gone viral.

For the next step in this caffeinated laundry sesh, Woodcox employs another hotel amenity. “The hair dryer in the bathroom? You blow-dry those bad boys and you’ve got yourself a cleaner pair of underwear to wear. I did not realise how many people already knew this hack. I learned it years ago from a friend that was a flight attendant and it’s brilliant,” she advised travellers.