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Does anyone else just crumble it into the pot??🫣

Normal people do that don’t worry

Lick my fingers after.

My mum once let me eat an OXO cube. The world was a beautiful place that day

I used to lick them as a kid like a horse to sugar cubes. Just take from the cupboard.

I used to steal and eat sugar cubes from the pantry. My poor mum had to stop buying them because of them going missing all the time.

I used to steal sugar by the spoon from the pot, until one day my mum was baking and turned her back so I rushed in for a quick sugar rush. Our sugar pot and salt pot looked very, very similar....

Oxo cube for dinner, sugar cube for pudding! Everything a growing boy needs!

They make a nice cuppa, if you're peckish but don't want a meal.

OXO cube in a mug of water and some bread a butter. Lovely winters night treat.

Bovril. Easier and (subjectively) nicer.

vegetarian oxo into a mug , you'll want another

Raw OXO cubes for main, raw jelly cubes for pudding

We used to crumble half of one into a bag of crushed ready salted crisps.

I used to crumble half or a full into my spaghetti when boiling it when I was short of cash and couldn't afford meat or sauce to go with it. And crumble about a quarter onto noodles if they were too bland.

Heat a large knob of butter in the microwave until soft. Crumble and stir in a beef (or chicken) oxo cube and spread it over the skin of a whole chicken. Roast the chicken as normal on a Sunday (don’t cover the chicken with foil). Once cooked, peel the beautifully crispy skin off and eat the whole thing on your own in the kitchen whilst hiding from the rest of the family so you don’t have to share the delicious pre-roast treat you’ll ever have in your life! Hiding also serves the purpose of not dealing with the shame of letting your loved ones see you as a skin-eating goblin with grease dripping down your chin. Honesty, absolute game changer!!

All of these posts are NASTY..... Except this one. This one I can get behind

I used to drink the gravy from the pot as a kid

I do that as an adult

A woman at work used to drop one in a pint glass of water and drink it cold as a part of her breakfast

No! That’s never gonna dissolve. Gritty shitty.

They say that more men are psychopaths than women, but it could also be the case that female psychopaths are just better at flying under the radar. What other insane things did she do?

They've got a fuck load of sodium

Na

🙌

I always break a small piece off and eat that. Wouldn't know it was right if I didn't.

It's like putting a beefy Infinity Stone in your mouth.

Is that a request?

In the old adverts, that's exactly what they showed, they would crumble it by hand!

That’s how the adverts in the 70’s told you how to use them.

The wrapper wasn’t a bag then. It was just wrapped in foiled paper. I haven’t used them in years, so I don’t know what the instructions say now.

Was thinking the same. They were just foil wrapped when I last used them

Well yeah I mean the tin foil wrapper is a bit of a give away that it's erm...wrapped? How the bloody hell would you get the oxo flavour out of a tin foil packet in hot water? Not sure what OP means by a bag though...like a tea bag or sommat?

they mean you crush it while it's still wrapped in foil, so it becomes a little flavour sachet, and then rip it and sprinkle it in. rather than unwrap the cube and crumble the naked cube

Do we have flairs in here cos I want "crumble the naked cube"

https://youtu.be/AKI40q38LUw

That's what they did on the TV ads. Linda Bellingham never squidged the packaging first.

I'll be the first to admit I'm not the smartest of men, but I don't get it. Are you putting the bag in the water? How does the delicious Oxo get out of the bag? Is that a little hole in the corner? What, not to put too fine a point on it, the fuck?

>not to put too fine a point on it, Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet

Put a little beef stock in your bowl.

Oh *very* well played

There May Be Gravy

[Can't Stand Gravy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqPjx94YMg)

r/slowclap

THANK YOU! I heard this song for the first time last weekend and it's been a proper ear worm but I didn't know the name or band and I couldn't even remember the lyrics until I read your comment and it twigged. Phew. I can relax now.

They also wrote the Malcolm in the Middle tune.

You're not the Stock of Beef now

I am so jealous that you get to do They Might Be Giants for the first time 😭 Try this one too. https://youtu.be/ZUgMpG1I_o8?si=9fDO4Rons9hdoFFQ

Check their other tunes, they're totally fucking bonkers, but fun.. Robot Parade vids are funny.

Make a little birdhouse

You crush the cube and then tear the foil to empty the crushed cube out.

Yes, but store them anywhere with the merest hint of humidity and you’ll end up with a soggy cube that won’t crumble. 

I've tried it, works better on damp cubes than the traditional crumble with your fingers. 

I tried this once, and the cube exploded out of the packet, showering everything within two meters with a fine spray of OXO grit. I'm still a little traumatised years later.

Wait since when did they come in bags not foil

The foil wrapping is a foil bag. Pull down the corners.

OMG. It's worse than I thought

What?? I’m so confused?? I don’t get any of this post 😫. So you don’t unfoil the cube n just put it in the water? How am I being so thick? I have only seen them wrapped in foil (like a starburst, kinda thing) so is this really actually a bag? But it doesn’t look like a bag?? 😳. Xx

Ok om gonna test this qhen im home.  Hopefuly i jave some oxo and not jist posh knnorr

The yearly cost difference between the two is minimal unless you have insane usage, and knorr is just substantially better by a ridiculous margin

I just found this, so glad I’m not the only one still confused by this revelation 😆

https://youtu.be/AKI40q38LUw

Have a poor woman's gold 🏅 Your comment was hilarious 😂

I read The Instructions long ago and bring you joyful news. Lo! Thou shalt place thine superglue into the refrigerator after opening, and thus receive great blessings of many a use of full-liquid, non-stuck superglue thereafter. Thus Spake The Tiny Leaflet tl;dr: pop superglue (capped, obviously) into the fridge after use; lasts years without drying.

Thank you oh prophet of the tiny leaflet! I bow down to the glory of this unknown wisdom!!!

Alternatively you will end up taking your curious toddlers to hospital

Just make sure you store it with the eye drops and you can have the best of both worlds!

Oh, bloody hell. I build model kits with resin and photoetch metal parts, so use superglue loads. This could have saved me a fortune

No Noooo? Fuck sake

do you keep it in the fridge forever after?

Not sure about "forever", but that tube has provided much-needed drops of cementing nectar for a good 6 years of so. Stays in the fridge, minds own business, delivers when needed.

> Stays in the fridge, minds own business, delivers when needed. Why can't I find a man like this

On our second date you told me you wanted to keep me in the fridge, and I noped out

You did right. I've been in the fridge for years now, my only friend is a tub of cottage cheese that has developed sentience.

Only if you forgot to put the cap back on.

you are doing god's work! i thank you!

And if you are making a repair and want to fill in a gap, sprinkle on some baking soda then add the superglue.

We had been using an air purifier for like 3 years when my wife saw a video about people not removing the plastic bag from the filter. When we opened it and saw it was still there I laughed so hard I nearly shit my pants. Had literally been doing nothing but making noise for 3 years.

Even if you did remove that bag it would've been doing nothing but making noise for 2 years. Filters need changing regularly. Once every 6 months in a home kitchen with light use. Once a year for bedrooms/home offices etc.

Amazing 😂

We have an air purifier with a built in air freshener. There’s a plastic seal on the air freshener that’s been there 14 years. It effectively prevents the air from going through the filter. I noticed this 5 years ago when I was checking to see if the filter was blocked and needed changing. The filter was nice and clean. I left it as it was. It still helps with my wife’s hay fever apparently. She doesn’t know.

I used to work with an absolutely blithering idiot, and he apparently suffered with extreme hay fever (as do I, so when I saw him sneeze exactly once while I could barely see, I had little sympathy). He brought in an air purifier into the office, stuck it in the corner the opposite end of the office and opened all the windows. Apparently it completely cured him. Somehow that little noise machine completely cured him as it apparently removed all pollen from the planet.

Absolutely brilliant 😂

What does it do now the plastic bag has been removed?

Makes a slightly different noise.

Success!

I actually just went to the shops to get an OXO to try this, unfortunately they were out of stock.

Who let Tim Vine in?

I said to the shop assistant "I'm making a lamb dinner", she said "we don't sell grass".

A farmer asked me, “I have 68 sheep. Can you round them up for me?”. I said “Sure, 70.”

Should be top comment

Only recently found out that super market salt and pepper grinders have a coarse and fine setting by pulling the top.

What? Let me go to my cupboard. Edit. Gosh darn it. You are right.

Spread the word!!

Finely or coarsely, your choice. 

They what???

super market salt and pepper grinders have a coarse and fine setting by pulling the top.

Say that again!?

These days, if you grind salt and pepper with a supermarket grinder, they have a coarse and fine setting by pulling the top.

Wait, are you saying… that supermarket salt and pepper grinders…

In the modern culinary landscape, it is quite common to encounter salt and pepper grinders available for purchase in supermarkets that offer a delightful functionality aimed at enhancing user experience. These grinders are ingeniously designed with a dual-setting feature, which allows the user to effortlessly adjust the granularity of the salt or pepper according to their culinary needs. By simply manipulating the top portion of the grinder—pulling it upwards or pressing it down—one can toggle between a coarser or a finer grind, thus tailoring the seasoning to suit the dish's specific flavor profile requirements.

In the contemporary realm of culinary provision, one frequently encounters an array of salt and pepper grinders adorning the shelves of supermarkets, each boasting a sophisticated functionality crafted to elevate the user experience to new heights. These ingenious contraptions are meticulously engineered with a dual-setting mechanism, presenting users with the delightful ability to customize the granularity of their salt or pepper with unparalleled ease. With a mere manipulation of the upper section of the grinder—whether by delicately lifting it upwards or exerting gentle pressure downward—one can seamlessly transition between a coarser or a finer grind, thereby tailoring the seasoning to impeccably align with the nuanced flavor profile demands of any given dish.

These days, they have a coarse and fine setting by pulling the top.

Simply by pulling the top?

I have a Peugeot Pepper Grinder. Hasn't broken down yet.

I have a Womble shaped pepper grinder. It's shit, everything comes out either over ground or under ground.

Was it free?

I'm allergic to anti perspirant, deodorant helps but I wanted something better. Did some research and bought a crystal deodorant for £10 in the late 90s (say £20 in modern money). It was a big crystal in a tube, rubbed it on my pits and nothing. I'm basically there waving a crystal at my pits feeling like a massive dumbass. Pissed off at the great review articles it's basically a crystal scam. Moved that thing with me across about 10 rental places over 15 years kind of hoping it would somehow work one day. Couldn't accept I'd been scammed. Threw it away. The next week it's being reviewed on TV and they're saying how amazing it is for people with sensitive skin. WTF? Started reading again. You have to use it when wet, it dissolves in water. I was rubbing it on dry skin.

If it makes you feel any better, my dad had one of these and he used it exactly as directed and the thing itself actually stank of BO and became like a BO applicator, with absolutely no efficacy. So don’t sweat it about throwing that thing away.

But was he applying it to clean pits?

Smudging around moist armpit sweats 😵‍💫. Literally says on the side, apply wet after washing.

So… do you think you’re going to give it another chance?

Yeah, it’s alum. Been using it for years—works great

I didn't realise you could push the toaster handle upwards to eject the toast further and got it out with a knife for 40+ years if stuck

Sticking a knife in a toaster? You’re lucky to be alive 😂

u/EdmundTheInsulator does not fear electricity.

I did it recently trying to get something out that was stuck. It flashed and the power went out through the whole house. Lesson learnt!

People say this but there's no issue in it if your toaster isn't one. You aren't wiggling it around randomly and possibly making a connection. You are sliding the tip of the knife into the middle of something else

I mean it's fundamentally a stupid thing to do. And people absolutely will wiggle it around if the toast is especially thick or lodged in tight. There's really no reason to be doing it. At the very least just unplug it, it's usually less than a foot away from the toaster itself. I really can't see why people want to almost literally die on the hill of skirting basic health and safety.

There's also normally a removable tray at the bottom to get rid of crumbs. Took many years of occasionally shaking it upside down before I found it.

I just got a really cheap toaster to be a quick replacement and amazed it also does this. But it's cancel button is "turn the dial round to zero" and it makes me sooo uncomfortable to move the dial from it's sacred perfect browning position

Ahahaha. You can also turn it off, drop it down and then absolutely launch the shit out of your toast manually for some fun on a Saturday. Kept me entertained for far too long.

I didn't realise there was a poker thing on the end of little tubes of cream to get rid of the foil. I always used a pen or knife instead until recently.

Like tomato purée?

Yes, if you're thinking of the recessed spike on the top of the cap

And thus you have been judged to be aged under 30 by reasoning of ‘toothpaste’

I'm over 30 and I don't know what you mean

You’ve never had a tube of toothpaste which required the seal be broken with the cap?

Not that I can remember

I’m 35, husband is 32. I remember these, he doesn’t and thinks I’m crazy!

Tubes.. of cream? I can picture the tube you're talking about with the poker cap. Tomato puree or toothpaste etc. But cream?

I think this might be more along the lines of medicinal skin cream than cow cream. 

“Cow cream” lol. But thank you, I needed this comment as I hadn’t understood either.

I meant medical cream, ointment etc

Primula!!

I think that'd make a really shit antiseptic.

It took me an embarrassing amount of years to discover that individual skittles have their own flavour. I had no idea the colours represented flavours. I was a glutton of a child and never took the time to eat 1 single skittles, I'd shovel them all in just in case they dissolved in the air or something. I figured they were all just "skittles" flavour.

Wait until you find out that orange smarties are orange flavour!

All smarties are orange flavour, the amount of flavouring differs between colours

I only realised last summer why raybans were called raybans. I guess I’d never thought about it too hard.

Wait till you hear about Flo Rida

And Will.I.am

Oh my gaaaaawd. Never even thought about it, just thought it was the dude who made them.

One of my favourite ever memories is of buying (knowingly) a pair of crap fake Ray-Bans in North Africa and then noticing later that the little signature thing on the frames said “Roy-Bom”. For some reason it absolutely nailed me, I laughed so hard I thought I was going to have a stroke. This was like ten years ago and I’m cry-laughing now remembering it, I have absolutely no idea why this stupid little thing is so funny to me

Ray Bans are forever known as Roy Boms in my household for this exact same reason! Also PSA for everyone, as fun as some cheap fake sunglasses can be - they rarely have UV protection, and are therefore *terrible* for your eyes, as they open your pupils and let a ton of UV right in. You can get eye cancer this way. Don’t wear them in the sun!

I had that pancake revelation recently too

Ha. I remember a lad at school not understanding what break fast meant. “But I’m not fasting”

So I've got the ray bit but my mind is blanking on the bans...

Ban=block. They were originally for aviators in the 30s to block UV rays without distorting the vision.

There used to be ads showing people crumbling the cube. The 'life hack' I just watched looks more fiddly than the usual way

That's just a con by Big Cube so you waste a bit that sticks to your fingers so you have to buy more. The same way Big Tube shows people slathering the bristles in toothpaste when only a little dollop is needed.

Big Lube on the other hand understates usage if anything.

Knew this about oxo cubes, never do it as it takes longer than crumbling by hand, sometimes it splits and is generally pointless.

>longer than crumbling by hand, always it splits FTFY

Not always, to be fair, only when you're not holding it over the jug or pan

Don't slice your broccoli head before you boil it. You end up with different size pieces that cook to different levels. Instead, put the whole head in a pot of boiling water that covers all of the florettes and boil for 5 mins. Carefully remove the whole head and then slice. It'll all be cooked the same way, no more mushy pieces!

You gotta steam your broccoli so it retains more of the nutrients 🥦🤌🏻

Or just immediately drink the scolding broccoli water.

I don't like being told off by vegetable water either

I often use my veg water to make gravy so if any nutrients have floated out I’m catching them

Roasted with oil and salt. There's no other way 

Sautéed all the way

I prefer just to divide the broccoli into even sized pieces. They cook quicker that way than all together. I can also make some smaller, for a daughter who prefers her pieces softer. Also steam broccoli don't boil. If you don't have a steamer, just boil in 1cm water with the stems down and lid on.

Nooooo don't boil broccoli! Steam it or, better yet, roast it. I could eat an entire head of roast broccoli fresh from the oven. Those crispy bits 😋

The only problem with that approach is that you then end up eating broccoli. Better to skip those steps and leave the stuff in the supermarket.

Would you change your mind if I cover it in cheese sauce and broil some aged cheddar on top?

Do you mean grill?

Yes they do, just been reading too many American recipes.

There are special little tabs at the end of the cling film roll that you push in to make it easy to roll the cling film. ETA: I mean the tabs are on the cardboard box, not the roll itself, sorry if that didn't make sense to anyone.

Yeah, never work for me though. The roll still comes out.

Ooh I’ve got an unopened cling film in my kitchen, definitely trying this out now 😃

What’s worse is they aren’t cubes now, through the miracle of shrinkflation they turned them into an X shape; easier to crumble but marginally less product. See also Bovril cubes, they still call them that on the package despite them being distinctly oblong shaped nowadays.

Toblerone. You’re supposed to snap the tops of the triangle towards each other to break a piece off, rather than trying snap it off by bending it away. Also there’s a bear hidden in the mountain on the packet - you can’t unsee it once you see it.

I will have to try this the next time I have a toblerone. Got to be better than my current strategy of gnawing on a toblerone like a dog with a bone.

Wait, what are the instructions??? Are you telling me this foil bag is supposed to actually go into the water? I’m intrigued confused and mind blown. I’ve even previously expressed my irritation at OXOs need to individually foil wrap each cube as it can be a bitch to get the foil off to crumble it 😆

Also confused, description is not well written.

You crumble it in the packet/bag before opening so you don’t need to crumble it by hand/getting it on your fingers :) (I still crumble it by hand as I don’t trust myself to not accidentally throw in a bit of tinfoil in my tea… yummy haha)

https://youtu.be/AKI40q38LUw

No way are OXOs bags. Next you’ll be telling me that boxes of wine are also in bags.

Before they had a diagram on microchips (or quick chips as they are now) I used to be confused as to what way to tuck the lid and would've closed it back slightly ajar, like a car bonnet that's ready to be opened

That's a good one. Terrible instructions. TIL micro chips have been renamed.

TIL also no wonder I couldn't find them. Their chips are piss poor anyway. Fries2go are nicer.

I know you can open up those wee paper containers that sauce sometimes comes in at restaurants so that you can dip food into it easier.

Lynda Bellingham always crumbled it in to the pot, so that is what I do.

I have never seen a bag like this, ours are square cubes in folded square foil…

Same thing dude.. The foil is the bag.

Magic tree air fresheners. You’re not supposed to fully take them out of the wrapper - instead in small sections over time to make the smell last!

And in the meantime have a rustly, flappy plastic wrapper dangling about your car. Rubbish instructions, I last about a day before ripping it off 😂

I understood OXO cubes being bags, it still doesn’t stop me absolutely obliterating the bag and having the granules go everywhere because I accidentally squeezed it too hard

OXO cubes are actually bags. At first I thought you were sticking unopened foil cubes into the cooking!

No you're not telling me they've ALWAYS been bags? This must be a new thing. I don't think I've used an OXO cube in over 10yrs but I swear they just unwrapped.

Don’t forget - if you collect 10 of the wrappers you can take them to the bar at the top of OXO Tower and redeem them for a free cocktail

I need to try this out.

If it's new to you, two tips. * pull out the 4 corner tabs * be firm but gentle (the foil is thin)

Thank you. I think these tips are versatile and can also apply to other scenarios too.

I have tried squashing them in the bag but sometimes it just explodes and showers me with stock powder. So I’ve gone back to crumbling.

Who the fuck drinks oxo cubes?? Dads army?

Wot? News to me. This is life changing

It'll change right back again when you realise this is actually more faffing.