going to love this the wheel the light bulb the telephone some inventions
impact the world and others fly under the radar here are 10 food inventions
that fool us all well you could have fooled Us Transformers take out boxes
who isn't familiar with the iconic Chinese takeout box with its tapered bottom Pagoda
illustration and rectangular shape in the form that mathematicians call a frustum seriously
look it up these boxes are seen everywhere but they're more than just a box did you know they
can also act as a plate try it out when you sit down to eat take out the metal handles and put
them aside then gently undo the creases and folds of the box if you do it right it should turn into
a flat surface that can act as a substitute plate mind blown this method is a great way
to cut down on dishes and to give another use for the Box before it gets thrown away just make sure
that if you do this you don't do it with a meal covered in sauce or broth that will spill all over
the place it's a plate not a bowl it's a plate the underrated Spork I am not a toy I'm a spork
you might have heard of a spork a few times in your life they're a hybrid of a spoon and a fork
in functionality appearance and even in name the word dates back to 1909 and was used to describe
the specific brand of utensil but the tool itself dates back much further with varying names it's
a very quirky and odd utensil but it does have its uses firstly sporks are obviously versatile
since they can do the work of two different utensils I mean look at how versatile it is
secondly they are the premier utensil to use on certain foods foods that have a liquid part and a
solid part like a stew with broth and vegetable chunks or some pasta coated in a sauce are good
candidates for using a spork the other major use for us Fork is if you're eating two different
things such as a liquid soup and a solid salad no need to use two utensils when one hybrid will do
the trick just fine yeah it's a hybrid invert your peanut butter I'm inverted as anyone can attest
gravity is a Harsh Mistress it can either work in your favor or against you what goes up must come
down however one lesser known way in which gravity manifests itself is in peanut butter of all things
if you leave a mostly full jar of peanut butter upright in your pantry then the various liquid
oils will slowly make their way to the surface as the mixture settles in the jar creating the
annoying greasy layer at the top there is a very easy way to avoid this and it simply involves
turning the jar upside down this way all the excess oil will float to the bottom of the jar
instead leaving the solid peanut butter at the open end of the jar which is closer to the ground
when stored in this fashion it's very simple and intuitive Okay this may not be the greatest
advancing gravity science since Isaac Newton but whoever figured this one out deserves our
Eternal thanks cheers to you a known inventor may your peanut butter never be oily again first
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sauce cubes hot sauce suspenders hot sauce pajamas you've just made a delicious sauce but the problem
is you have way too much of it you can use a good portion of it for dinner tonight but the extra
would take off way too much space in the fridge and it might go bad if you leave it long enough
what do you do in this situation grab an ice cube tray and freeze it this sauce preservation
method was popularized by YouTube home cook Adam ragusia in his bolognese sauce recipe he purposely
makes too much of the sauce for one meal and freezes the rest for use later in the case of
his bolognese sauce Adam takes one or two cubes from the collection and saws them which makes the
sauce incredibly easy to portion just take what you need and leave the rest for later no time
is wasted on thawing a gigantic brick of sauce ninety percent of which will just be refrozen
after dinner Adam also uses this method for the the actual food itself such as a large stew of
black beans which can be portioned as easily as the sauce the ice cube tray method is an ingenious
way to store frozen food and it works like a charm works like a charm float ear eggs it's
happened to all of us you go to grab some eggs but you're unsure if they're still good or not they're
past the expiration date but just barely you can't tell just from looking at them and you don't want
to risk the smell if you crack them open and have the stench of sulfur stink up your home or Worse
potentially poison you if you put them into your food but you also don't want to risk the chance of
you throwing out and wasting a perfectly good egg so what do you do how do you solve this dilemma
put them in water in regular tap water a good egg will sink while a rotten egg will float if the
egg sinks but stands up vertically on its end it is still good to eat but it will go bad soon use
those ones first why does this work it's because of the properties of the eggshell the shell has
thousands of tiny pores like a sponge when the egg is first laid it is 100 full with no air inside
over time the water in the egg leaks out through the pores and evaporates leaving behind an air
pocket this is what causes an old bad egg to float like the ballast in a submarine this is also why
an egg on the verge of going bad will sometimes stand up the air pocket is there but it's not
big enough to fully counteract the weight of the egg hmm I don't remember this from physics class
I don't really remember why not eat the plate don't eat off my plate the spiritual ancestor
of the common bread bowl edible plates and other dinnerware are a fantastic invention the Polish
company biotrim founded by a wheat farmer who wanted to make something with his excess bran is
one of the world's leading manufacturers of edible plates and Cutlery their plates and bowls are made
out of 100 wheat bran and can be eaten as an after meal snack or just put straight into the compost
if you don't want to eat any more food of course since these plates are made entirely of wheat you
probably don't want to eat any soupy Foods on them biotrim also sells edible and compostable Cutlery
made of wheat bran mixed with an edible chemical called polylactine which is also made from Plants
this is not the first instance of an edible plate or Cutlery though in Ethiopia people traditionally
use a spongy flatbread or pancake called injera as a makeshift spoon to grab soup or salad from a
communal stoneware or metal Bowl this is similar to how we eat dips in the west but injera is
used for every type of food in Ethiopia similar practices exist in other cultures with different
types of bread like Roti in India or tortillas in Mexico Sometimes the best inventions come
straight from the past the appropriate question is where the hell are they put your bread where
your brown sugar is your bread is underproof gram parents the world over have known about this one
for ages if you have trouble with your brown sugar clumping there is a very easy fix just put a piece
of bread in the bag with it this bread will exude some moisture into the bag this stops the brown
sugar from clumping which happens when it dries out brown sugar is essentially just white sugar
plus molasses and the notoriously sticky substance that is molasses will dry out eventually if it's
exposed to outside air and this will cause the clumps this is an incredibly simple thing to do
that makes a world of difference and if you're one of the people who doesn't like to eat the
end part of the bread loaf also known as the heel then this method will save you from throwing it in
the garbage if you're gluten intolerant or don't eat bread for whatever reason then you can use
another somewhat moist item like a vegetable slice just make sure that whatever you put in the bag
doesn't get moldy that will ruin the whole thing and if the bread or other item becomes fully stale
and rock hard before the sugar is used up just switch it out for another one it's simple cheap
and effective the perfect life hack life hacking baby putting the straw in Strawberry what are you
doing now making a straw the straw in Strawberry has nothing to do with the tubes you use to suck
liquid through but that doesn't mean that you can't use a straw on a strawberry not to suck
strawberry juice through but to Hull it it's not clear who first developed this life hack but it
is a good one to keep in mind next time you want to have some of the lovely red fruit on a nice
summer day to perform this little trick just Place one end of the straw up against the conical bottom
of the berry and impale it through to the top the stem and leaves should just pop off it's like an
apple corer but on a much smaller scale keep in mind that this method works best with reusable
rigid straws since they're less likely to bend or tear and don't even think about using this with a
paper straw that will just make soggy strawberry flavor paper Metal Works the best for this but
plastic and other materials can work in a pinch just remember that you're putting lots of force
into the end of it don't hurt yourself you only want to put a hole in the strawberry not yourself
whoa just take it easy man Bloom your cocoa powder I can't have another cocoa chocolate cakes and
brownies are wonderful as is but there is an easy way to make them next level and give them
extra oomph there's a technique known as blooming which is certain to make all your chocolate baked
goods taste even more chocolatey it's very simple just put the cocoa powder into some hot water or
other liquid before you put it into the batter the one downside is that it may make it harder
to stir the batter with the extra cocoa sludge but the elbow grease is necessary for the payoff
it might seem unnecessary since any liquid in your baked good will get boiling hot in the oven anyway
but it does work formal scientific research is scarce on this topic but ask any professional
Baker and they will swear by it YouTube cook Adam ragusia did a test of this he baked two
chocolate cakes which were identical except for one difference one cake had bloomed cocoa powder
and the other just had traditional cocoa powder in the mix the difference was extremely clear and his
words more intense deeper more chocolatey try it yourself next time you bake something chocolate
and you'll be the next convert to the blooming side round Pizza square pan for every Square
there is a round geometry is another one of those subjects in school you may have zoned out on when
would calculating the areas of rectangles and circles be useful in daily life well here's a
great way to use those skills you learned that would satisfy both your math teacher and your
cooking teacher let's say you're trying to cook two pizzas at once either Frozen or freshly made
they will likely be in a circle shape unless you're doing something a bit fancy but shock
and horror they don't fit here's an easy way to solve this problem cut one of the pizzas in half
you're going to cut it eventually anyway why not do it before you cook placing two semi-circles
on either side of the circular piece will form a rectangular box which should fit in your oven if
that doesn't work cut more cut it into quarters maybe even eighths play with this method and see
how small you can make the bounding box of your two Pizza circles this method will also make the
pizza much crispier with more perimeter exposed directly to the heat of course you don't have to
dice your pizzas into pieces the size of a piece of shredded cheese just do it enough to make it
fit in the oven just figure out the optimal cuts for your pizza crust sizes and your oven either
via pen and paper mathematical calculations or good old trial and error and have at it your
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