26 Surprisingly Brilliantly Engineered Everyday Items You Won’t Believe Are So Affordable
Secondary fun fact: you can also use a thermos as a slow cooker. I’d preheat my thermos, put my stew ingredients in a pan and bring it to a boil, dump it all into my thermos, and leave it in my lunch box for the 5-6 hours until lunch. It’s still steaming hot and all the ingredients have cooked down. It even worked with those ultra tough beef stew chunks and raw barley. Both were soft and slow cooked to perfection.
Hugh_JaRod said:
Velcro
Pinkbeans1 replied:
This made my kids’ shoes so much easier to deal with!
Of course, Dad (Grandpa) insisted on teaching them to tie shoelaces anyway. My kids were tying everyone else’s shoelaces for them in kindergarten.
LefterisLegend said:
The lighter. Spontaneously ignite fire basically whenever you want.
raitalin replied:
Specifically, Bic lighters are incredibly reliable. You can find one on the ground that’s been outside for months and they still work. Cheaper disposables break in a million ways and more expensive refillable lighters will leave you disappointed if you store them, but you can always keep a Bic handy and know it’ll work when you need it.
TriggeredSnake said:
Hinges! I had to [do] a study on them for my engineering class.
MagnusBruce replied:
I bet that bit of work opened some doors for you.
GreatPlagiarist replied:
I always get a laugh when you swing by.
[But in all seriousness…]
DonatellaVerpsyche replied:
Are we talking only metal hinges or are we talking bookbinding / box hinges, like the 2 hinges holding a 3 ring binder together? I did a massive project of recycling 3 ring binders and made all my own fabric and leather hinges. FASCINATING STUFF! How flexible/ not flexible the fabric had to be +how much glue to both create and hold the shape of the binder while letting it open completely like a plastic hinge. It was honestly fascinating nerdy stuff. I have a whole new appreciation for hinges (the wrap around and displacement of the main panels).
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