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Tracula posted:It was definitely Sprite and not just carbonated water. I could understand that at least. The whole ice wrapped in a towel thing is what initially threw me off since I figured it was gonna be for a bruise or something but then she just started scrubbing with it after dousing it. Nope, that's a legit hack. My bf just pours a little Sprite on the grill at work while it's still hot, and it wipes clean in a flash. I haven't heard the ice in a towel thing, but that would certainly make sense if you're doing a non-flat surface like hot dog rollers and can't just straight up pour Sprite on it.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Nope, that's a legit hack. My bf just pours a little Sprite on the grill at work while it's still hot, and it wipes clean in a flash. I haven't heard the ice in a towel thing, but that would certainly make sense if you're doing a non-flat surface like hot dog rollers and can't just straight up pour Sprite on it. I am curious if this works with diet sodas... Been doing too much chemistry and can't figure out if that will change things.
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VioletCorsica posted:I am curious if this works with diet sodas... Been doing too much chemistry and can't figure out if that will change things. It's mostly from the carbonic acid, so it should work.
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Ice could be to melt to the shape of the rollers, or provide a gradual source of water
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Jul 28, 2016 16:25
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If the rollers are still hot the ice is to stop her hand burning surely?
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Jul 28, 2016 16:30
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Why not all three? That's what makes it a proper lifehack.
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I can confirm that this works. I've been a cashier for years and a towel full of ice works in several ways. First it protects your hand from getting burned, and it makes a good scrubbing surface that conforms to the shape of the rollers, lastly it provides its own water as the rollers would dry out a regular rag. Not sure why Sprite would help, but I'm sure it has something to do with the acid.
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Carbonic acid, man, carbonic acid. It is known.
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I was told to use Sprite to clean the saute pans years ago when I worked at Chipotle. It did a poo poo job of it as the sugar just caramelized in it and then you had to scrub burned sugar off as well as all the other poo poo. I tried doing it when the pan wasn't hot (and we were specifically told it had to be hot) and it worked slightly better, but not any better than water and elbow grease. I use soda water to clean most of my bar equipment these days and it works well enough.
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Yeah using sugar to clean anything is dumb as poo poo. That's why it's in this thread I guess?
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Having said that, dry sugar is fine as an abrasive but hardly optimal.
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Jul 29, 2016 01:47
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Phosphoric, found in many sodas, is good at removing rust. Lifehack: use commercial rust remover anyway. They work faster and cleaner than cola.
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Just splash soft drinks on the floor and slurp them up like an animal you piece of poo poo
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Stairs posted:Ibut I'm sure it has something to do with the acid. This also explains why my last trip to 711 ended unceremoniously.
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Stairs posted:I can confirm that this works. I've been a cashier for years and a towel full of ice works in several ways. That's more or less what I figured it was but as other posters pointed out I'd really figure using actual cleaner would be better.
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Tracula posted:That's more or less what I figured it was but as other posters pointed out I'd really figure using actual cleaner would be better. Most degreasers aren't food-safe so they have to be rinsed off; soda water just evaporates. (Source: was a kitchendhand in college). Not so much a stupid hack as an obvious one: Lifehacker just ran an article saying you can prevent oatmeal from overflowing in the microwave by using a lower power setting. IIRC most brands' instructions on the box say "Microwave on MEDIUM for X minutes/seconds." Do people not realize microwaves have different settings?
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Goddamn Particle posted:Most degreasers aren't food-safe so they have to be rinsed off; soda water just evaporates. (Source: was a kitchendhand in college). Every american is secretly Tim Taylor. More power!
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Lifehacker basically exists to teach kids moving away to college how to function as adults. By advertising it as a lifehack they disguise the fact they're giving directions like parents would.
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Len posted:Lifehacker basically exists to teach kids moving away to college how to function as adults. By advertising it as a lifehack they disguise the fact they're giving directions like parents would. They really need to bring back all those instructional shorts from the 50s, only with more diverse casting and less unyieldingly in-your-face nationalism.
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Jul 30, 2016 01:34
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Caveat. Mr b natural needs to be even more androgynous
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Karma Monkey posted:They really need to bring back all those instructional shorts from the 50s, only with more diverse casting and less unyieldingly in-your-face nationalism. Seriously. When I was I lived in the dorms a girl across the hall set off the fire alarm making soup in a microwave. Apparently the directions said to put a paper towel over the container and she did, then it caught fire.
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Jul 30, 2016 02:04
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The only thing androgynous was the name. Aside from that, Mr. B's gynous all the way.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Caveat. Mr b natural needs to be even more androgynous Well, yea, that goes without saying. I want more androgyny in all of the instructional shorts. 
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Jul 30, 2016 02:42
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Where can I purchase a pair of instructional shorts
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Butt Ox posted:Where can I purchase a pair of instructional shorts No charge, mi amigo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l92Mu4-Dheo
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That one is good, but this one tells you what to wear in the year 2000! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eAiy0IGBI&t=19s Check that hathack for finding an honest man.
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That's a good one, but the only thing they got right was the portable phone, unless you count Lady Gaga, in which case a lot of the outfits are very close to accurate. Here's a PSA for goons! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxBOSdl-b54
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Facebook Aunt posted:That one is good, but this one tells you what to wear in the year 2000! Fuckin' Bioshock flashbacks man.
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Facebook Aunt posted:That one is good, but this one tells you what to wear in the year 2000! Ooh! SWISH!
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Facebook Aunt posted:That one is good, but this one tells you what to wear in the year 2000! The man of the future has a cargo shirt. Thank god humanity didn't go down the dark path of every man having an every day carry that they brag about. "My phone is in the center of my chest obviously, and candy (for cuties) is in my lower right chest pocket."
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Len posted:Seriously. When I was I lived in the dorms a girl across the hall set off the fire alarm making soup in a microwave. Apparently the directions said to put a paper towel over the container and she did, then it caught fire. Should I not be covering my soup bowls with a paper towel?  Did she put the bowl and the paper towel in the microwave but forget the soup? Was she trying to microwave the can? A FUCKIN CANARY!! has a new favorite as of 13:46 on Jul 30, 2016 |
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Should I not be covering my soup bowls with a paper towel? I don't even know what she did. She wasn't a smart person though and we all yelled at the roommate who made her feel welcome visiting our room.
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It just came to my attention that lemons aren't a naturally occurring fruit: they're a hybrid of the citron and the mandarin. Take that, literally every naturopathic lifehack ever.
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A guy at work microwaved a tin of Pilchards once. Don't worry though guys, the smoke, sparks and frankly astonishing smell is fine guys, he took the lid off first 
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Len posted:I don't even know what she did. She wasn't a smart person though and we all yelled at the roommate who made her feel welcome visiting our room. If a microwave has a broken turntable, all kids of poo poo that should be fine to microwave ends up smoking and can catch fire. People at work scorch popcorn bags all the time because they don't know which microwave to use.
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CommonShore posted:It just came to my attention that lemons aren't a naturally occurring fruit: they're a hybrid of the citron and the mandarin. I'm pretty sure the only naturally occurring citrus fruits are mandarins, citrons and pomelos. A thousand years of delicious GMO.  (Don't bother eating pomelos, they're like big weird fibrous grapefruits.)
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Brass Key posted:(Don't bother eating pomelos, they're like big weird fibrous grapefruits.) Lifehack: ignore silly recommendations from the internet.
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Brass Key posted:I'm pretty sure the only naturally occurring citrus fruits are mandarins, citrons and pomelos. A thousand years of delicious GMO. And papeda, which is apparently entirely inedible but is nonetheless important to the genetics of several modern citrus fruits. I've had pomelo. It's bad. But I don't like grapefruit either. Really I was just so amazed by this when I learned it this morning that I had to share it somewhere (I was thinking about citrons and wanted to see the relationship between citrons and lemons). Yes I sit and contemplate citrons. CommonShore has a new favorite as of 21:18 on Jul 30, 2016 |
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Brass Key posted:I'm pretty sure the only naturally occurring citrus fruits are mandarins, citrons and pomelos. A thousand years of delicious GMO. Pomelo is also how you say grapefruit in Spanish so YMMV.
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And citron is how you say lemon in swedish.
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