are you one of those people who starts a new jar/tub before the old one is finished?

[Minnie_the_Minx]

what did he do? tell him the internet wants to know

VP never revealed whether they were full rolls. I'd be very worried about his bowel health if there were two full rolls and now there's only one

 

[Biddlybee]

Shower caps from hotels are also useful for covering a bowl in which bread is proving. Hotels: a source of culinary usefulness.

They're good for covering bike seats when you lock them in the rain too

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

pasta - if it just needs a bit of butter adding to it, i swirl it round the tub first for a light coating

Ooh, that's a whole new culinary adventure waiting to be explored.

It had never occurred to me to put butter on pasta.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I think I've only got 2 ketchups on the go at the moment. 2 squeezy mayos too. Oh, and 2 nutellas. And the 2 loo rolls I mentioned earlier - although Mr Paw has just been to the loo, so depending on what he had to do one may be gone now.

Does Mr Paw know you're telling the internetz?

I can just imagine the conversation in the Paw household.

Mr Paw: Hello darling, what are you up to on the computer?
Vintage Paw: Oh, y'know, just telling the internetz that you've been to the loo and might have had a poo and used the rest of that loo roll...

 

[Orang Utan]

Ooh, that's a whole new culinary adventure waiting to be explored.

It had never occurred to me to put butter on pasta.

seriously, it's like saying it never occurred to you to put a tomato sauce with pasta.
butter improves most dishes it has to be said. i can't think of many things in which i don't use it. best to use the packs though rather than the fake butter in tubs, though i often/usually resort to it cos my flatmate uses all my nice butter and never buys any himself.

 

[oryx]

I swill out empty Marmite jars with boiling water to make stock.

 

[wtfftw]

I don't always finish jam before opening another but I try to disguise this by having different jams.

I try to finish things but I suspect I don't persevere with scraping as much as some here do. I'd never have doubles open (except jam...).

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

if so, perhaps you can explain to me, WHY?

No. I scrape every last dreg out of the old one first.

We grew up without a lot of money. I recall my aunt taking a rolling pin to a tube of toothpaste to get every last bit out.

Seeing food get wasted gives me an uncomfortable feeling deep inside.

 

[High Voltage]

Whilst not going to the "eccentric" lengths that some of you appear to go to, I'll use as much as I can - this entitles me to the right of opening the NEW ONE - in particular, instant coffee!

Note to IZZ!! - YOU DO NOT PUNCH A SPOON THROUGH THE DRUM SKIN TAUGHT FOIL SEAL

Firstly, you don't drink the damn stuff

and

Secondly, you don't open it "right" - the seal needs to be removed neatly, leaving nothing behind on the jar - Thank you

 

[tarannau]

When you get precious about the grand opening of a jar of instant coffee then it's a bad sign imo. Worse than worrying about 2 open ketchups imo

As long as it's all eaten and not wasted I don't really give too much of an arse tbh. But I'm not even bad with jars of stuff and they quickly take up capacity in the fridge.

 

[Geri]

A woman at work does this with milk. She had four x 2 pints in the fridge the other day and three were open!

 

[King Biscuit Time]

3 pages in and no-one has mentioned John Shuttleworth yet??

 

[izz]

Whilst not going to the "eccentric" lengths that some of you appear to go to, I'll use as much as I can - this entitles me to the right of opening the NEW ONE - in particular, instant coffee!

Note to IZZ!! - YOU DO NOT PUNCH A SPOON THROUGH THE DRUM SKIN TAUGHT FOIL SEAL

Firstly, you don't drink the damn stuff

and

Secondly, you don't open it "right" - the seal needs to be removed neatly, leaving nothing behind on the jar - Thank you

bump !

I will open a jar 'properly' the day you learn what the laundry basket is for.

And the next time I open a jar, I'll gob in it.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

My son does this all the time

 

[Jazzz]

Why is it that the very last bits of Peanut Butter, Peach Marmalade, Bovril or Marmite, those last bits that you have to work hard to get out .. why is it that they always taste loads better than the first bits!

I know what you are getting at here. The length that are gone to to get the last bits out - I am thinking of crisps here particularly. If you could make the whole packet out of the last bits, it would be worth twenty quid.

 

[silver]

My boyfriend does this with shower gels, theres about 6 opened ones in the bathroom, it drives me mad