A pasta spoon has a hole in the middle of it, and the overwhelming majority of people who own one assume the hole is there to let water drain through.…
There is a compartment in the base of most dishwashers that takes coarse salt, and a great many people either ignore it entirely or assume the salt is some kind…
Open the fridge and a light comes on. Open the freezer and, on a great many appliances, nothing happens.
The usual explanations are that the cold would break the bulb,…
Pick up a matched pair of shakers and count the holes. They will usually be different.
Then ask somebody which one is the salt, and you will get a confident…
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The tin can was patented in 1810. The first practical can opener appeared in the late 1850s. For most of fifty years, people bought food sealed in metal…
The Shiny and Dull Sides of Kitchen Foil Are an Accident of Manufacturing and It Makes No Difference
There is a confident person in every kitchen who knows which way round the foil goes. Shiny side in to reflect the heat back, or shiny side out to keep…