How to peel a head of garlic “in less than 10 seconds”.
Smash it with your hand, then put it into a covered bowl (he uses another bowl, but a commenter said that he covered his bowl with a cookie sheet) and “shake the dickens out of it”.
(Source: plus.google.com)
How to fill a bucket with water using a dustpan.
- Set the dustpan on top of the sink, such that the leading edge of the dustpan is on the far edge of the sink and the handle hangs over the near edge.
- Set the bucket on the floor in front of the sink.
- Overfill the dustpan so that water spills down the handle into the bucket.
Obviously, how well this works will depend on the proportions of your sink and your dustpan, and only a dustpan with a hollow or open handle will work for this.
On the other hand, it doesn’t need to be a dustpan.
How to dispense ketchup.
Bang the bottle, just above the label (on the raised “57” if it’s a Heinz bottle), on your hand.
How to peel a potato.
Step-by-step:
- Score the skin all the way around.
- Boil the potato.
- Put it in ice water for 5–10 seconds.
- Pull the skin off at both ends.
Sprintcuts (previously mentioned) shows a variation. Differences:
- They don’t mention the scoring step, which I suspect is essential to the clean break they show.
- They say to put it in ice water for 5 seconds, whereas Howcast’s video says 10 seconds.
- They appear to have scored it around the potato’s axis, rather than along it.
I think I prefer Sprintcuts’ method, but I haven’t tested either one.
Subscriber Ben suggested a whole bunch of Sprintcuts videos; as you can guess, this was one of them. More to come. Thanks, Ben!
How to polish a shoe with a banana.
I haven’t tried this one, having (1) real shoe polish and (2) no taste for bananas. But feel free to give it a shot.
Of course, you’ll need to open the banana first.
If you’ve ever examined a tin of Kiwi saddle soap or wax shoe polish, you’ve probably seen the cleat-looking thing shown in the photo. You might also have noticed that the lid is damned hard to get off with your hands alone.
What might not have been obvious to you (hence its inclusion on this site) is that that cleat is actually the opener for the lid. It turns, and turning it far enough will pry the lid off of the tin. The photo demonstrates.
How to eat a chicken wing.
Take the bones out first, then eat what’s left, which is all meat.
Submitted by Ben.
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