What's up guys, it's Kristina here.
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'cause I'm about to drop
some knowledge bombs on you right now, okay?
All right, so what I'm about to tell you
is going to blow your mind.
I've got a list of things that, everyday things,
things that you have laying around your house,
things you use on a daily basis that you are using wrong.
Let's get started with the first one.
Just hear me out, just wait.
You know this, this is the pasta ladle,
the pasta spoon, whatever you want to call it.
It has the little forked things on it
so that you can easily scoop out
some long pasta from your cooked pasta pot, I guess.
Whatever.
It usually has a hole in it.
Why does it have a hole in it?
It's because it's utilized as a serving portion
for dry noodles, dry pasta, usually straight pasta noodles.
So, I have a very deluxe plastic bag
of some HEB Fettuccine.
And you're like, you know what?
I've got seven people today,
I don't know how many portions is seven portions.
It's an odd number.
Let's figure it out.
So, you got your noodles here.
And what you're going to do is just kind of ploop it through
to kind of guesstimate.
Okay that is like way too much.
This is probably two servings worth.
And see I would have thought, eyeballing it,
that that was one serving size, but it's not.
So, now you know that when you're taking,
I actually meant to grab the spaghetti
but it should work, yeah, see?
Now you know that [cooking tool scraping]
this is one serving size.
So now I've got one portion
and I'm utilizing probably half of the pasta
that I normally would be using.
So, that's saving me money and saving on food.
Speaking of food, you're cooking a delicious pasta sauce
in your saucepan.
Did you know that this hole right here,
we always think that it might be used
for, like, hanging on a rack or a series of hooks
or like a pot rack that might hang over your kitchen,
something like that.
No, you'd be wrong.
That's actually a secondary use.
This is most commonly made for is actually to hold
your stirring spoon while you're cooking
so that the sauce doesn't drip everywhere.
So, anyway, that's the thought.
Me, I would prefer to use a spoon rest
because I just think it's less messy.
I've actually tried this method out
and it just tends to, just kind of drip stuff like back,
it would work for a longer spoon.
Try it out, see if you have something that works
and then you can impress all your friends
at your stay-at-home dinner party
that you've not invited,
that you've invited virtually via Zoom
about your little genius cooking hack
that you just figured out from a YouTube video.
Let us just all take a moment of silence
for my last can of Dr Pepper
that I am sacrificing for the creation of this video.
Oh, don't be fooled.
I will be drinking it.
I have a little tip for you.
You know those guys bottle openers
that they have on their key rings
and was very popular when you were in high school
and every guy had one on his key,
you know what I'm talking about?
This one.
This is actually HB's from high school.
I never knew this but I was doing a little digging
and I found out that this little hook right here,
normally this part is used for the bottle cap
and this little hook right here, you're like,
what the heck is it for?
Well ladies, it's for you.
It's to save your beautiful, delicate manicure
from being destroyed by soda cans.
So, just stick it here
and you use it [can lid cracks] boop!
There you go.
Perfectly opened.
No nails were harmed in the making of this video.
[unseen crowd cheers]
Pretty good.
All right so I going to set this aside
but we're going to keep the Dr Pepper
because Dr Pepper has another use.
This might be the one that you've seen.
Comment down below if you already know
any of these little, like, mind blowing tips
or everyday items you're using wrong.
In this video, comment them down below
if you already know them.
If there's one that you know it's probably this one.
It's so genius it's just bears repeating
because I just feel like I forget this
literally every single time I have a Dr Pepper,
which is more often than I care to admit.
All right, so, this little hole in the little tab here,
you're going to turn that around so that it's over the opening
that you'd normally drink from.
And you can put your straw in it
and it stabilizes your straw.
Now, this is even more effective
if you're still living in the Stone Age
and using plastic straws.
That's also very helpful because plastic straws are so light
that they tend just go bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bleep
and straight into our oceans.
But all jokes aside, if you are utilizing a plastic straw
then it helps keep it in place
and it won't sit there and bubble out of the can,
which sometimes these straws can do
because of the carbonation.
So there you go.
My next trick is actually having to do with your jeans.
So, you know we all, we're searching on the internet,
we're like, I want to buy a new pair of jeans
and they're always listed as five pocket jeans.
And you're like, but mine have four pockets?
No, they have five.
That little tiny pocket down here.
You'd be like, what is that for?
Is that for change, loose change or something?
You could use it for loose change
but it originated because of pocket watches.
So, usually pocket watches had a long chain
and some sort of hook on the end of it
and you would hook the end of the chain on your jeans.
And, when jeans were invented,
it was invented as a way
for workers to more easily carry around their pocket watch,
'cause wristwatches were not invented yet.
So, this actual fifth pocket here
is actually the perfect size
to fit a standard-issue pocket watch.
And we still have them on our jeans today.
But, you know what I've discovered
is a really great use for this often neglected pocket?
Your AirPods.
It fits AirPods perfectly.
Try it out, it fits your AirPods.
Everybody, you need to try it out.
If I haven't blown your mind yet,
if I have, please hit the thumbs up button
and make sure you're subscribed.
But if I haven't, just stay tuned
because if you are still driving a car that takes fuel,
which 98% of Americans are,
next time you get in your car, check your dashboard.
I want you to look at your fuel gauge.
Remember when we used to leave our houses?
So much fun, right?
We used to rent cars to get around
and whatever exotic destination we were at at the time,
and you'd be like, I don't know where the gas tank is.
It's an American car, I've never driven an American car.
I've never driven a Japanese car,
I've never driven a German car.
I've got a tip for you, okay?
You don't have to do that little dance
where you're like driving up to the gas station
and then you're on the wrong side,
and then you have to hop back in your car and like,
look kind of like, oh I'm an idiot.
And then drive around and kind of position your car
back into the place it's supposed to be.
Just look at your dashboard, look at the fuel icon.
The fuel pump has typically, there's a little arrow
and it will be on the left or right side.
And that's telling you
whether it's on the left side of the car
or the right side of the car.
And you just have to go wherever it's pointing.
If it's going off to the left,
then you just open your car door
and it's on the driver's side.
If it's pointing off to your right,
then it's on the passenger side.
And so I hope that at least makes it seem
a little bit more slick
when you're driving up in your rental car,
or your friend's car, that you're filling up with gas
before you're heading off to the airport or something.
You now know what side your gas tank is on.
You're welcome.
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