What do you use chopsticks for?

[Seafog]

Besides the usual?
For me, it's getting the tea bags out of the pot, fishing out olives, and taking out the not happy leaves of spinach from the bag.

When pouring oil out of a big container I use a chopstick to stop the oil just running down the side of the container. The liquid runs down the chopstick and not anywhere else

I have used a ‘cleaning chopstick’ (kept in cleaning stuff bucket) for Poking down plug holes if I can see something needing out.
Use one sometimes for cleaning bottom of jars if it’s too stiff for my jar scraper.
Used (sacrificed) one with spectacular success to creat a dowel for broken roller blind fitting. Still working months on.
Used one few weeks ago to help with cleaning under front car seats.

Along with many of the above, turning sausages etc on the grill.

Scrambling eggs in a non-stick pan.

I use a chopstick when I'm repotting my bonsai trees. It's just the right thing for sorting out the soil in between the roots. They've been known as a bonsai tool for centuries.

All manner of food and cooking uses.

Household plant stakes.

Cleaning the door tracks.
Poking the vacuum
I wrap a wet cloth around the end and use it to clean the hinge things at the back of the toilet that are hard to reach.

When I use one for something unorthodox and especially drain it loo related I have a momentary thought about the reverence with which they are held - exquisite carved precious, chopstick stands and boxes etc. No matter I’m using my most basic for these jobs but I do mentally ‘see’ it might be culturally jarring ? Having said that I use old cutlery and kitchen knives etc for all sorts.

I don’t use exquisitely carved precious chopsticks; I buy them in packs of 100 sets of wooden ones from Amazon that come individually wrapped (like you’d get in a takeaway), and use fresh ones each time when eating with them.

Once used, they’re thoroughly washed and used primarily for stirring coffee as you’re not meant to use metal to stir as it ruins the flavour apparently, then as they get used/more come into play, they get demoted to filthier jobs before being eventually chucked. Culturally jarring sounds massively ott - I also use old cutlery as well for different things 😅

There is one cable tied to the top of Christmas tree, the angel sits on it. She has a sort of plastic cone in her skirt.

ISpyCobraKai good tip UT I wonder if my way is even easier. Put the Cannelton filling into a plastic ziploc bag, cut the corner off (just a little) to turn it into a piping bag, and use that to fill the tube. Quite fun actually.

but... canneloni... damn autocorrect!

I bought a pack of multi coloured ones purely to put up my hair

It's neat to see all the ways they can be used, and now I will be using them for my omelette too

Scratching that bit of my back that I can't otherwise reach.

@sittingonacornflake

This thread is eye opening

Please don't use them for that!

I'm intrigued as to how you'd use them to keep hair in place?

Stirring flower food into water, stirring paint and also putting a cleaning cloth over when I need to get into some kind of nook and cranny to clean it. They’re thrown away or cleaned after I hasten to add….!

@LemonRedwood You are like a professional tip giver! I love your post.

@debwong you are funny too!

Hair wrapped around it & it then pushed through close to the head - hard to explain but v easy to do

If done when hair is wet and left to dry with chopstick in, it produces lovely loose waves when chopstick is pulled out,

Like some PPs Harry Potter wands. DS2 has a jar full.

Stirring paint

My DH uses one to poke clean the underside of the lawnmower when he's cut the grass

@Sacreblue I'll give it a go, just because it interested me enough to ask