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Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It's such a small specific thing, one I'd never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now.

What are your small, "random" or "junk drawer" type of gadgets that you actually use or like having around?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I dunno. No matter how "heat tolerant" plastic claims to be repeated exposure to high heat seems like it'd increase the chance you'd be dosing all your foods with micro plastics and other plastic related chemicals.

Like I'd never put anything made of plastic that touches food in the microwave myself, heat resistant or not :#

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Eggs have shells.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but I'd rather eat the shells plastic free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_grandmother_to_suck_eggs#

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Egg shells are porous

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Only after being washed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like submersing them in water to boil them? Eggs in the US are pre-washed as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Thats not a bath it's a jacuzzi. That's why they come out so relaxed.