June 10, 2025 at 2:49 am

A Customer Talked About How Restaurant Workers Get Fajitas To Sizzle. – ‘That’s the crazy smoke/steam. Not the food.’

by Matthew Gilligan

woman talking about fajitas

TikTok/@mahicks1028

Oh, those sizzling fajitas!

Is there anything more exciting when you’re out to eat at a Mexican restaurant and that sizzling plate enters the room?

It’s exhilarating!

But there’s more to this process than meets the eye…

A TikTokker posted a video and shared some insight about what really happens when customers are served fajitas in restaurants.

woman staring at a camera

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The woman wrote in the video’s text overlay, “I was ‘today years old’ when I found out that Mexican restaurants spray water on the fajita plate.”

woman covering her eyes with her hand

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She added, “That’s the crazy smoke/steam. Not the food.”

The TikTokker wrote in her caption, “Idk why I care it pours straight through me like water too.”

woman staring at camera

TikTok/@mahicks1028

Take a look at the video.

@mahicks1028

Idk why I care it pours straight through me like water too. #controversyalert #unhingedtok #mexicanfood #ibs

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Now check out what folks said about this story.

This person chimed in.

Screenshot 2025 05 04 at 4.25.01 PM A Customer Talked About How Restaurant Workers Get Fajitas To Sizzle.   That’s the crazy smoke/steam. Not the food.

Another TikTokker spoke up.

Screenshot 2025 05 04 at 4.25.20 PM A Customer Talked About How Restaurant Workers Get Fajitas To Sizzle.   That’s the crazy smoke/steam. Not the food.

And this viewer dropped some knowledge.

Screenshot 2025 05 04 at 4.26.19 PM A Customer Talked About How Restaurant Workers Get Fajitas To Sizzle.   That’s the crazy smoke/steam. Not the food.

This is what they call “selling the sizzle!”

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