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Just discovered a much easier way to grind my coffee in the morning and felt dumb because it was so obvious, figure there's some good stories out there about this type of thing out there

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[–] seitanasparagus@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Preparing as much as possible in the evening, really:

  • breakfast: oats in the fridge
  • clothes: picking clothes and putting them on the chair
  • backpack: taking out the old lunch container and other things that I don’t need tomorrow
  • shaving and showering

Only quick wash with a washcloth, getting dressed, eating breakfast, brushing teeth and go

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

You can turn honey into honey syrup by adding a tiiiiny amount of boiling water and stirring it (not in a plastic container!). It keeps a lot better without crystalizing, and you can put it in the fridge where the ants can't get to it. If it crystalizes before you get to it, you can use the same trick to get it back.

My tip for pouring viscous things like honey or molasses is to go slooooow and rotate the bottle if you need to reduce the size of the pour. In this case, I add the boiling water to the bottle to get the residue then pour it into the glass container, much like the pasta trick on this thread.

Now I believe you owe us a coffee tip

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago

now I believe you owe us a coffee tip

It's not applicable to most grinders so I left it out. My grinder is a manual one with three pieces, the top which has the grinder, the bottom jar it screws on to, along with a cap to screw on to the jar to preserve ground coffee when not in use. I store it with the cap on and the top separate. You load the beans into the top part, but the top doesn't have a flat bottom so I would try and balance it and frequently spill the beans when loading it instead of just taking the cap off and screwing it on to the jar and then loading the beans...

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 20 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

wait. so you want our things and your not going to tell us the better way to grind coffee.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 hours ago

Not really applicable to most grinders so I left it out. My grinder is a manual one with three pieces, the top which has the grinder, the bottom jar it screws on to, along with a cap to screw on to the jar to preserve ground coffee when not in use. I store it with the cap on and the top separate. You load the beans into the top part, but the top doesn't have a flat bottom so I would try and balance it and frequently spill the beans when loading it instead of just taking the cap off and screwing it on to the jar and then loading the beans...

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

I too will give no secrets without recompense.

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[–] bananabenana@lemmy.world 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Scroll wheel click to new tab/close tabs

[–] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago

ctrl+shift+t to reopen this page once you test this

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 26 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

When trying to get the last bit of pasta sauce from a jar, don't bother with a rubber spatula/pot licker.

Generally you need to add a bit of water to the pot at some point anyway, because some of that moisture is boiling off. So instead, after you pour most of the sauce into the pot, add that water up front by putting a little bit to the jar, closing the lid and shaking, and now add that to the pot.

[–] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I use a little bit of red wine for my pasta sauce. Works great.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Oh hell yeah! That's classes it up a bunch!

I have a Buick Century. If you push the lock doors button with the door open, it beeps three times at you and doesn't lock the doors, as if to say that's an invalid operation while the door is open. Press it again, and it locks the doors.

Turns out, if you press it once, get the beep code, shut the door, the car shines the headlights, corner lights and reverse lights for about ten seconds (so you can see to get in the house in the dark), and then when it shuts those off, it locks the doors. Why not just fucking lock them, I don't know.

[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

In a lot of dishwashers, the silverware goes in its own little detachable caddy. Instead of reaching over to the dishwasher to load and unload every fork and knife, just pick up the caddy and collect all the silverware, or take it directly to where its stored and unload it there.

Edit: someone beat me to it, haha

[–] ThePrimitive@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I moved that caddy to the top shelf of my dishwasher so I don't have to keep bending over to fill/empty it. Fuck the po-lice!

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Also, if you sort your silverware before starting the dishwasher, unloading will be faster

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I did this until I found out that spoons were spooning this way and some of them weren't clean afterwards. So now it's planned chaos again.

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