What if the sauce could just slide out of the bottle ? Image Credit: YouTube / Varanasi Group
It's a question that has puzzled mankind for years - how do you get every drop of sauce out of the bottle?
Anyone who has ever tried to finish off the remnants of a bottle of tomato ketchup will be familiar with the difficulties involved in extracting every last little drop of sauce.
Now though, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believe that they have finally developed a solution to this age-old problem in the form of a new type of bottle coating.
Going by the name Liquiglide, this new liquid-solid coating makes it possible for every last drop of sauce to make its way out of the bottle without any of it getting stuck to the sides.
"The cool thing about it is that because the coating is a composite of solid and liquid, it can be tailored to the product," said Professor Kripa Varanasi, one of the scientists who developed it.
"So for food, we make the coating out of food-based materials and so you can actually eat it."
Everyone is so worried about chemicals these days. If it wasn't chemicals, which basically everything is made of, there'd be something else. I'm sure everyone stopped chargrilling their burgers when the news about carbon being a carcinogen. We're carbon-based for crying out loud! Yes, some chemicals are very much worse than others and all should be treated with respect. But without chemicals our life spans would still probably be in the low 40's. I know without chemicals, I'd have been dead a long time ago.
I'm sure many, like me, just made sure the cap was on tight, gripped the bottle towards the bottom, and swung it downwards hard a couple times? Much of the ketchup is then now towards the cap. But like mentioned earlier, just use squeeze bottles. But I still do the above method anyway when the ketchup (or other condiment) content is low.
I just make sloppy joes out of the last of the bottle. Put some water in bottle, then pour it in the pan with some mustard, brown sugar, onion, and hamburger. The kids would alway alert me to bottle getting low, so I would make them their sloppy joes.
Given the plethora of things waiting to be researched from medical science, astrophysics et al , we are supposed to herald this as a scientific breakthrough? Another wasted research grant solving first world problems. And if anyone wants to suggest it has a beneficial application, then why was this "wondrous" breakthrough announced using the medium of a ketchup bottle? They clearly have the pulse of modern life, and modern thinking it seems.....
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