Simply insert the plastic ketchup bottle top down in a sock and whirl it like mad for a few seconds. 99.9 percent of the ketchup will be in the neck. Works for mustard too. Don't try it with glass and allow for stretch to the sock (I cracked the cap once on the kitchen counter). Maybe better performed outside. BTW, this is no joke, I do it all the time. Wife and kids are not so keen on it, but it works.
How to get last drop of ketchup out of the bottle.
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Do your condiments have a certain flavor, somewhere between gorgonzola and limburger?
Kinda redefines the word "toejam"....
Kinda redefines the word "toejam"....
Hard to imagine the lengths you'd go to to get the last drops of oil out of the jugs!
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I guess it's not worth my pursuing a patent on a special sling for ketchup conservation?
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You shouldn't have told us a sock will do!
When it doesn't come out easily you open the next bottle
Ahhh, no. Must not waste any of the precious red sugar.
BTW, did you know ketchup is thixotropic? That means it's viscosity thins when under sheer stress. This is why it won't come easily out of the bottle. In the olden days, before squeeze bottles. People would invert the bottle and nothing would come out. Then they would smack the bottom of the bottle a few times and suddenly a flood of ketchup would dump out (not a bad thing at all for a guy like me who likes to dip burgers into a pool of ketchup every bite). Anyway, the trick was to violently shake the bottle before opening it, then pour and it will come out nicely (Once threw ketchup up a restaurant wall because the cap was on but not screwed on--
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BTW, did you know ketchup is thixotropic? That means it's viscosity thins when under sheer stress. This is why it won't come easily out of the bottle. In the olden days, before squeeze bottles. People would invert the bottle and nothing would come out. Then they would smack the bottom of the bottle a few times and suddenly a flood of ketchup would dump out (not a bad thing at all for a guy like me who likes to dip burgers into a pool of ketchup every bite). Anyway, the trick was to violently shake the bottle before opening it, then pour and it will come out nicely (Once threw ketchup up a restaurant wall because the cap was on but not screwed on--
This reminds me an incident with a ketchup bottle.
I'm sitting in the Miami airport restaurant, and my burger arrives. I took the ketchup bottle and to started shake it violently. The cap was not on properly so the ketchup proceeded on its journey towards the ceiling. There was ketchup everywhere - on the ceiling, me, the table, the floor. That was bad, but, of course, the key is to retain a dignified posture and clean up yourself as if you meant to splatter it in the first place.
Now I hold the cap when shaking the bottle.
I'm sitting in the Miami airport restaurant, and my burger arrives. I took the ketchup bottle and to started shake it violently. The cap was not on properly so the ketchup proceeded on its journey towards the ceiling. There was ketchup everywhere - on the ceiling, me, the table, the floor. That was bad, but, of course, the key is to retain a dignified posture and clean up yourself as if you meant to splatter it in the first place.
Now I hold the cap when shaking the bottle.
I think Americans have taken over from the Scots as the cheapskates of the world. I can't get my head around why though in a country with so much money?
We save our money for gas.
Home heating gas or gasoline (petrol)?
Petrol.....I was only half kidding. But something has to give in the budget.
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Doesn't every can have the lid at the bottom?
You sure you're not a Scotsman?
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Smuckers tried inverted plastic bottles for their jam. That didn't work well at all.
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