We're having trouble agreeing on something here at the CMS HQ.
You see, I think it's called tin foil. Chad also thinks it's called tin foil.
Mind you, he is my husband. But Lucas, he happens to think
it's called aluminum foil or aluminium foil.
Whatever you decide to call it, one thing we can agree on is
that it's got a lot of amazing household uses.
So today I am going to show you all kinds of great household hacks
that you can accomplish using tin foil or aluminum foil.
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If you don't like using dryer sheets and you don't like static cling,
let's be honest, who does, a quick hack is to simply ball up
some tin foil and throw that in the dryer in place of dryer balls or dryer sheets.
This will help beat out static cling and will help improve the drying process.
Take tin foil and ball it up. You want the ball to be just smaller
than the size of your fist. Throw a couple of those into the dryer
and use them instead of dryer balls or dryer sheets.
They won't harm your dryer, and they will work incredibly well.
Here's one of my tried, tested and true dryer balls.
You can see I've been using this one for a while.
Either way, I like this hack a lot, and I think you should give it a try.
Let's say you want to make one of our awesome DIY cleaning recipes,
but you don't have a funnel. Rather than funneling your frustration
into getting a lot of stuff into a little opening, you can just make
your own funnel using a little bit of tin foil.
Take a piece of tin foil and fold it in half.
Then you want to find something to use for a mold for your spout.
I'm going to use a long wooden stirring spoon.
Then you want to create a good seal by crimping
the tin foil down at the bottom.
Finally, you want to finish off by forming a funnel shape at the top.
So you really want to work it around and create a cone.
It ain't going to look pretty, but I promise you it will work.
It might take you a few attempts to get it perfect, like it did for us.
At least you can use all of the trial ones to create a nice tin foil bouquet.
If you have scissors that just aren't cutting it anymore, you can quickly
sharpen them in a rather effective way using nothing more than tin foil.
All you need to do is take a sheet of tin foil, fold it up several times --
you want to challenge your scissors a little bit -- and then simply snip
that piece of tin foil several times. This action will help sharpen the blades,
and then you can get back to the important business of cutting.
Sizzling bacon, what a sensual experience.
Not only does it sound amazing, it smells amazing.
However, once the bacon has been taken out of the pan,
you've got to deal with that bacon grease.
And obviously, you can't dump it down the sink, you don't want to cause any clogs.
And you don't want to put it in a plastic container, and let's say you don't have a
tin container to put it in. You can use tin foil to quickly
and effectively store that hot grease.
Take a piece of tin foil and line a bowl with it.
Then carefully pour the grease into that lined bowl.
Set it aside, or put it in the fridge, and let it congeal.
At that point, you can decide if you're using that bacon grease
for Brussels sprouts, or if you want to throw it in the garbage.
Well, I am glad we've solved that greasy conundrum,
and let's get on with the video, because, frankly, the entire house
smells like bacon, and we all want to eat lunch around here.
Since we're now left with a pretty dirty frying pan, let me show you a quick
tin foil hack that will act as a pot and pan scrubber.
Warning here, you can only use this little hack on a pot or pan where you could
otherwise use a metal scrubby. Grab a piece of tin foil, either one that
you've just used to cook with, there's a great way to upcycle, or a brand new one.
Crumple it up into a ball, add a little bit of dish soap and water to your pot
or pan, and start scrubbing. You'll see all of that stuff
starts to lift off. You might love this so much
you never want to buy another metal scrubby again.
Resident pot washers take note, this trick actually worked incredibly well.
It certainly exceeded my expectations, so I hope you give it a try.
Many things in our house run on AA batteries.
The issue is, because so many things rely on them, we happen to run out
of them a lot quicker than we would, say, AAA batteries.
There is a cool little hack that you can do involving
nothing more than a AAA battery and a little bit of tin foil to turn
this into a AA battery when you're in a pinch.
Crumple up a small piece of tin foil and place it over one of the ends
of your AAA battery. Then just pop it in like you
normally would your AA battery. Close up your item and use it
as you normally would. This is a great Band-aid solution
that will help you out when you're in a pinch.
Well, no matter what you call it, we've found out that tin foil,
that's what I'm calling it, has lots of household uses
that extend far beyond baking something in the kitchen.
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Thanks so much for watching, and we'll see you next time.
It's that special time of the week where I get to throw you to two
other videos I think you're going to love, and because you seem to be interested
in hacks, I have a couple of hack videos I want you to check out.
The first one is the first set of five cleaning hacks that we came up with.
Trust me, they're ingenious. And because that video did so well,
we came up with the second hack video that I also want you to check out.
You are going to be cleaning so much faster and so much better
by virtue of the fact that you checked out those two videos.
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