MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles 292
An anonymous reader writes "First we had a superhydrophobic spray that meant no dirt or sweat could stick to your clothes. Then a hydrophobic nanocoating was created for circuit boards to make them water resistant. Now MIT has gone a step further and solved one of the ongoing problems of using condiments: they've figured out how to make a food-safe superhydrophobic coating for food packaging. It means ketchup and mayonnaise will no longer be stuck to the insides of the bottle, and therefore there will no longer be any waste. What's amusing is this seems to be a happy accident. The MIT team was actually investigating slippery coatings to stop gas and oil lines clogging as well as how to stop a surface from having ice form on it. Now their lab is filled with condiments for continued testing of their food-safe version."
Re:Wrong Item (Score:5, Funny)
>I'm lucky I had another.
I don't think irreplaceable means what you think it means...
Re:How durable? (Score:5, Funny)
"Is it durable enough to be used on washless or "rinse-off" dishes?"
To hell with the dishes, think of the Fleshlights!
Re:I just flip the bottle upside down (Score:5, Funny)
I spin them with my arm out like a centrifuge and pretend I'm refining the ketchup. Also, woe be to he who doesn't cap the bottle all the way.
Re:Wrong Item (Score:5, Funny)
>I'm lucky I had another.
I don't think irreplaceable means what you think it means...
He has 20 of them. Each one irreplaceable.
Re:Maybe it's irrational... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I just flip the bottle upside down (Score:5, Funny)
True story... I used to work in a restaurant. If you've ever seen the movie cocktail, you'll get a rough idea of how I was at work: one man show. One day the cap was NOT on tightly. Poor girl never saw it coming. Blonde to redhead in .5 seconds.
New song (Score:5, Funny)
Super Hydrophobalistic Condimental Bottles,
The glass inside remains so clean just like the twelve apostles,
From them ketchup flows so fast you'll need to use some throttles,
Super Hydrophobalistic Condimental Bottles!
(to the tune of...)
Re:Wrong Item (Score:2, Funny)
another beer, not another irreplaceable keyboard
Re:How durable? (Score:5, Funny)
I'd really rather not...
Re:I just flip the bottle upside down (Score:4, Funny)
did the curtains match the carpet?
Depends on the time of the month.
Re:I just flip the bottle upside down (Score:5, Funny)
I was actually present once when someone did that the other way around: they were banging on the back end of the bottle with the heel of their hand to try and get it started and the bottle literally separated in half right there in his hand. The neck end slipped through his fingers and crashed to the floor, spraying everyone sitting at our table (and a few tables around us) under their tables from the knees down with ketchup with some broken glass fragments thrown in for good measure.
The best part was his reaction to it, he was so completely unprepared for that possibility that for a few seconds he just kinda sat there with the busted end of the ketchup bottle in one hand (as it quickly emptied of the remaining ketchup onto his lap and the floor) with an expression much like the one on the T-1000's face when he gets blown up [youtu.be] at the end of Terminator 2.