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hopeful777 · 2022-03-13T17:22:38+00:00

I just found out you can’t put a chopping board in the dishwasher unless you want it to break 😕 as my family are now laughing at me, it made me wonder what other things have people learnt in adulthood that maybe others assume should be intrinsically known?

ThirstyWork · 14/03/2022 18:34

About 2 weeks ago, I was flabbergasted to learn that Borneo is an island in Asia, NOT a small country on the east coast of Central America... and that Brunei is a country on that very island, not in the Middle East! Bonkers

DoubleTweenQueen · 14/03/2022 18:41

@AnchorWHAT

1. That split peas cooked in a pressure cooker take a lot less time than i thought to cook

That overfilling a pressure cooker can cause it to malfunction
That wearing split peas is not a great look
That cleaning split peas off the ceiling -and every other bastard surface in a kitchen- is bloody hard work

HoliHormonalTigerlilly · 14/03/2022 18:42

You know not to put metal in the microwave though, right op?

nopuppiesallowed · 14/03/2022 18:42

That you don't have to buy mould remover to clean the sealant around your shower. Just put a srip of loo roll over it squirt on some water mixed with Milton, press down and leave overnight. Voila! Super white sealant. Even works in a student squat....

NightandViolets · 14/03/2022 18:47

I was in early twenties and had just moved in with OH when I found out why you can’t use a flameproof casserole on the hob. So stupid of me - it exploded into tiny shards and how I didn’t lose an eye I’ll never know. Around the same time I also spilled vinegar on the gas hob and created a mini inferno which charred our rented kitchen cupboards! Oh and going further back as a lazy student I actually tried to boil milk in the kettle I’m actually quite clever but you’d never know from my complete lack of common sense!

Skybubble · 14/03/2022 18:51

@meow1989

I learnt in recent weeks that if you put a mug with a metallic handle in the microwave to reheat your coffee, then pick it up by said handle, you will burn through several layers of skin on your fingers in places you will recurrently catch/rub on things whilst undertaking every day tasks. I swear I heard a sizzle when I did it

I have made this mistake and it bloody hurt! 🙄

IcakethereforeIam · 14/03/2022 18:52

I've always been wary of pressure cookers after my mum's left a stain on the ceiling and had its bottom bowed out like a wok. I don't know what she did to it. My dad put a Pyrex casserole on a gas ring to reheat, that went as well as you might expect.

HadEnoughOfBears · 14/03/2022 18:55

@sunshinesallday

I was 51 years old when I just learnt what "watermelon sugar" is. Do all those teenage girls who love Harry Styles know? My friend just told me!

It's been all over Twitter & Tik Tok so I expect they do. I'm sure he even mentioned it himself 🙈

pussycatunpickingcrossesagain · 14/03/2022 18:55

[quote godmum56]@Harls 1969

so what did you make of "top to toe in tailbacks, I got red lights all around" " [/quote]

😹😹

NightandViolets · 14/03/2022 18:57

@NightandViolets

I was in early twenties and had just moved in with OH when I found out why you can’t use a flameproof casserole on the hob. So stupid of me - it exploded into tiny shards and how I didn’t lose an eye I’ll never know. Around the same time I also spilled vinegar on the gas hob and created a mini inferno which charred our rented kitchen cupboards! Oh and going further back as a lazy student I actually tried to boil milk in the kettle

I’m actually quite clever but you’d never know from my complete lack of common sense!

Should have said non flameproof, of course. Tired and have a small child rabbiting at me!

katepilar · 14/03/2022 18:58

I am often amazed about what people dont know about running a household and DIY and such. But I guess if you had noone to show you or teach you so how would you.

pussycatunpickingcrossesagain · 14/03/2022 19:07

@katepilar

I am often amazed about what people dont know about running a household and DIY and such. But I guess if you had noone to show you or teach you so how would you.

I had someone to teach me - neither were that bothered...although I do know how to mix mortar and lay bricks - and how to knit.

Which is the most useful think to know if I cook dinner 🤔

SuperSocks · 14/03/2022 19:09

@ThumbWitchesAbroad Oh my gosh, going to have to try that! No avocadoes in the house. :-(

Squiff70 · 14/03/2022 19:10

@NightandViolets

I was in early twenties and had just moved in with OH when I found out why you can’t use a flameproof casserole on the hob. So stupid of me - it exploded into tiny shards and how I didn’t lose an eye I’ll never know. Around the same time I also spilled vinegar on the gas hob and created a mini inferno which charred our rented kitchen cupboards! Oh and going further back as a lazy student I actually tried to boil milk in the kettle

I’m actually quite clever but you’d never know from my complete lack of common sense!

So umm, what happens when you boil milk in a kettle?

JudgeJ · 14/03/2022 19:11

Here it's common to just lift the wiper arms up off the glass if you're expecting snow. This was DS's car and he neglected to do so. Ours are in the garage most of the time, so it's not commonly a problem.

I knew someone who always did that but one morning he went out to the car, slipped and nudged a wiper, snapping it off!!!

FantasticFebruary · 14/03/2022 19:11

[quote Justanotherobserver]@FantasticFebruary

Yes. You have to point within about an inch of the bumblebee and it will raise a leg to point back. I've seen them do it at each other too.[/quote]
Thank you! I'm looking forward to summer!!

PiscesSt · 14/03/2022 19:13

Some funny ones on here. I haven’t just learnt it, but I was in my 20’s before I realised the sharp bit in the top of a tube can be used to pierce the seal….

doodlejump1980 · 14/03/2022 19:14

What have I started??
For those questioning why I though capers were tiny fish, I’d always had them with fish in a sauce, and they were always in a brine and tasted … well … fishy!
I only found out when I asked my DH how they caught them as they were tiny and they’d surely need a really fine net. He was like 🙄 (I’d also asked him why we weren’t keeping our jar in the fridge.) I’m actually quite clever really! 😂

JudgeJ · 14/03/2022 19:15

[quote godmum56]@LookItsMeAgain I knew that for the same reason. The West Wing is HUGE favourite of mine.[/quote]
Now there was a President worthy of the name!! I feel a binge watch coming on.

LimaCharlieHotelPapa · 14/03/2022 19:16

@BarbaraofSeville

Well from another thread, I've just learned that a lot of people wipe their arse while standing and were unaware that many people do it sitting down.

On the matter of dishwashers @Magik01, what the PP means is that they don't fill to the top with water, or use that much water at all for that matter.

It's a common misconception that dishwashers are wasteful compared with hand washing and many people will hand wash bits at a time because they don't think it's worth putting the dishwasher on, but in reality, they use far far less water compared with doing the same amount of washing up by hand.

About 10 litres per full cycle, which is probably about half a sink full, or a couple of minutes of a running tap. It is not possible to do a dozen place settings of lunch and dinner plates, breakfast bowls, cutlery, cooking pans, jugs and utensils etc in that little water by hand.

WHAT?! I missed that thread, you're saying some people wipe it sitting down?!

I can't imagine the octopus gymnastics of that but I'm going to have to try it now I know it's a thing

Walkingalot · 14/03/2022 19:18

@godmum56 - Channel Tunnel - I watched too and didn't they have a bit of dilemma when the two ends were out by a few mm? I thought it was amazing that it was only mm.

FantasticFebruary · 14/03/2022 19:19

@ChessMaster3000

The piggy thing has really upset me. I've been to a very dark place where the whole thing is about choosing which pigs go to slaughter (and which get fattened up / stay home) and the wee wee wee is the cry of fear.

@ChessMaster3000

Ack. Pay NO attention to @Soubriquet she knows not if what she speaks!!

Of course the little piggy is going to SHOP at the Market!! He's buying the ingredients for the Roast Vegetables the other little piggy is going to have!!

Sobriquet is a naughty little girl upsetting so many people today! I'm sending her off to the naughty girls corner! (If she makes amends I'll send along alcohol & chocolate, if not - water & gruel!!)

HashtagShitShop · 14/03/2022 19:20

@BigRedDuck

That a tromboleze is not a word, nor, a tiny trombone. And the song goes "My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs"

Courtesy of the misheard lyrics thread the other day!!!!!

It's also not 'Freed from desire, Marlin sends his spirit vibes' allegedly too! :D

SuperSocks · 14/03/2022 19:21

@blisstwins

If it helps I don't know if the little piggy thing is actually necessarily true! Roast beef would have been such an extremely rare luxury for country people of old that they weren't going to go giving it to their blooming pigs!!

pussycatunpickingcrossesagain · 14/03/2022 19:22

JudgeJ I have the box set, just about to watch "The US Poet Laureate" (S3) with Josh "Lemon" Lyman