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Vicky. 20-10-2021 10:49 AM

Things you didn't know that seemed so obvious once you found out..
 
Inspired by my discovery last night.

After making steak I was doing the dishes as you do. The pan was all charcoally and weird, as it usually is. So. I reached for the pack of brillopads my mother got me when I got this place. I was not concentrating and was kind of doing this on autopilot and managed to clean the pan without taking any of the nonestick stuff off it. And with no effort either. And was baffled.

Turns out, I have been scrubbing like hell, as if using sandpaper thinking this would make it work better, when all it does is make it harder to clean and breaks your pans. I have been getting through so so many frying pans because of this issue and just kind of convinced myself that brillopads were crap but dishcloths are no good and also get killed by pans.

So yeah. Light touch with brillopads is what you are meant to do it seems. I cannot understand how I thought it was normal to have a thing that 'helps' you do the dishes but also destroys the dishes, and never questioned this and why anyone would buy such an item if it destroys everything it touches?!

TLDR; I learnt how to correctly use a brillopad. And feel a pleb.

michael21 20-10-2021 10:56 AM

Things you didn't know that seemed so obvious once you found out..
 
I better then you and you know it

Niamh. 20-10-2021 11:25 AM

Oh that the hole on Saucepans are for hold the wooden spoon (or whatever utensil) so you don't have to lay it down on something

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/...2075.jpg?w=620

****Not my Kitchen or Saucepan in picture :laugh:

Vicky. 20-10-2021 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11105132)
Oh that the hole on Saucepans are for hold the wooden spoon (or whatever utensil) so you don't have to lay it down on something

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/...2075.jpg?w=620

****Not my Kitchen or Saucepan in picture :laugh:

What on earth..apparently the hole on the top of chopping boards is to shove the stuff through aswell, so it doesnt go everywhere (though I dont use them so thats useless to me, might help others though)

Life would be so easy if we already knew all of this. I wonder how proper adults feel sometimes :laugh:

michael21 20-10-2021 11:27 AM

Oh as your in the same thread I am looking forward to your meet up will you both get drunk

Glenn. 20-10-2021 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vicky. (Post 11105085)
Inspired by my discovery last night.

After making steak I was doing the dishes as you do. The pan was all charcoally and weird, as it usually is. So. I reached for the pack of brillopads my mother got me when I got this place. I was not concentrating and was kind of doing this on autopilot and managed to clean the pan without taking any of the nonestick stuff off it. And with no effort either. And was baffled.

Turns out, I have been scrubbing like hell, as if using sandpaper thinking this would make it work better, when all it does is make it harder to clean and breaks your pans. I have been getting through so so many frying pans because of this issue and just kind of convinced myself that brillopads were crap but dishcloths are no good and also get killed by pans.

So yeah. Light touch with brillopads is what you are meant to do it seems. I cannot understand how I thought it was normal to have a thing that 'helps' you do the dishes but also destroys the dishes, and never questioned this and why anyone would buy such an item if it destroys everything it touches?!

TLDR; I learnt how to correctly use a brillopad. And feel a pleb.

The rough side of a sponge would do the same if used in the same way. The thought of using a Brillo pad to clean a frying pan gave me an anxiety attack.

Niamh. 20-10-2021 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Vicky. (Post 11105133)
What on earth..apparently the hole on the top of chopping boards is to shove the stuff through aswell, so it doesnt go everywhere (though I dont use them so thats useless to me, might help others though)

Life would be so easy if we already knew all of this. I wonder how proper adults feel sometimes :laugh:

My chopping board doesn't have any hole in it

michael21 20-10-2021 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11105136)
My chopping board doesn't have any hole in it

Charlotte dose

Vicky. 20-10-2021 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Glenn. (Post 11105135)
The rough side of a sponge would do the same if used in the same way. The thought of using a Brillo pad to clean a frying pan gave me an anxiety attack.

That seems wrong in some really weird way that I can't explain :suspect:

Also, to try and explain the chopping board thing further as I realise my wording is not the best, I just tried searching this ffs. My google search history would get me sectioned I think if anyone looked too closely..

Vicky. 20-10-2021 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11105136)
My chopping board doesn't have any hole in it

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Originally Posted by michael21 (Post 11105139)
Charlotte dose


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Niamh. 20-10-2021 11:31 AM

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michael21 20-10-2021 11:40 AM

Charlotte has 3 sizes all with holes in I am not sure what the holes are for

Thinking about it not the frist time I had the problem :bawling:

Cherie 20-10-2021 11:49 AM

why is it Charlottes chopping board :suspect:

Cherie 20-10-2021 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Vicky. (Post 11105133)
What on earth..apparently the hole on the top of chopping boards is to shove the stuff through aswell, so it doesnt go everywhere (though I dont use them so thats useless to me, might help others though)

Life would be so easy if we already knew all of this. I wonder how proper adults feel sometimes :laugh:

I never knew that, what are spoon holders for them, a complete waste :fist:

Niamh. 20-10-2021 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 11105156)
why is it Charlottes chopping board :suspect:

Unless Charlotte is a Chef then Michael better change his attitude quick smart :nono:

michael21 20-10-2021 12:01 PM

It's time like theses that I relase I am tge only male in this thread

michael21 20-10-2021 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 11105156)
why is it Charlottes chopping board :suspect:

I got them as in I paid for them but there were a birthday present so technically there Charlotte

Vicky. 20-10-2021 12:04 PM

I cannot imagine the rage I would feel if I was given a chopping board as a birthday present

michael21 20-10-2021 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Vicky. (Post 11105165)
I cannot imagine the rage I would feel if I was given a chopping board as a birthday present

I was joking :bday:

Niamh. 20-10-2021 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by michael21 (Post 11105163)
It's time like theses that I relase I am tge only male in this thread

Poor Glenn :nono:

Vicky. 20-10-2021 12:46 PM

He may be glad to not be put in the same category as michael, tbf. Dont speak for him niamh :fist:

Dogeatdog 20-10-2021 01:04 PM

When you turn the ring round on your can of drink so it holds the straw for you.

https://i.ibb.co/qB0Xjv0/A0-C7878-A-...92-CAC75-A.jpg

user104658 20-10-2021 01:06 PM

You used a Brillopad on a non-stick frying pan?? Vicky this is verging on some sort of sociopathy :worry:.

Vicky. 20-10-2021 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 11105192)
You used a Brillopad on a non-stick frying pan?? Vicky this is verging on some sort of sociopathy :worry:.

I genuinely believed that 'easier cleaning' only happened if you sacrificed your pan every few months ffs. I feel such a twat. Never once questioned it.

Cherie 20-10-2021 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Dogeatdog (Post 11105191)
When you turn the ring round on your can of drink so it holds the straw for you.

https://i.ibb.co/qB0Xjv0/A0-C7878-A-...92-CAC75-A.jpg

Mind blown

this is in the same league as when Niamh showed us how to know which side the petrol cap was on the car :omgno:


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