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Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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For example, I'm incredibly confused about how you're supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap. At least the kind that I have sits on it's side, so if you measure it with the cap it just leaks everywhere and makes a mess.

Or at my parents house they have a bag of captain crunch berries that has a new design, where instead of zipping along the top of the bag like normal, it has a zipper in the front slightly beneath the top. That way when you poor it you can't see what you're doing cuz the bag is in the way. Like what the heck who's idea was that?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m incredibly confused about how you’re supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap.

You just gave me a stupid idea. First measure out the exact volume of detergent you need for one load - eyeballing it I'd guess 20mL (I'm notoriously terrible at eyeballing volume, so, grain of salt) - then get a 20mL syringe and some IV tubing (it's got one-way valves, so when you connect a syringe to it and draw up, it pulls from on side of the line; then when you depress the syringe back down, it goes out the other side). Tie something heavy to the intake side of the line and throw it in the bucket of detergent. Run the other side of the line to just above the detergent receptacle if your machine has one; or near the door for you to just aim it.

Load clothes; pull syringe, push syringe, close the door, run the machine. No detergent dripping all over the place!

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...detergent is probably too viscous as-is to go through IV tubing at an acceptable rate, so you'd probably have to dilute it with water first to thin it out, then adjust the amount you pull accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The pumps they sell for coffee syrup dispensers maybe.

Also they sell non-medical syringes for general use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ooh, that would for sure handle viscosity better than IV tubing. Good call!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been wondering if a measured pourer for bartending would work or if the detergent is too viscous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't work. - former barkeep

Hand pump from a sauce dispencer might work though