Imagine the following situation: you sit down to eat a sumptuous portion of fries or a juicy burger, reach for the bottle of stressful ketchup - and red! All that's left at the bottom of the bottle are the last few drops of the seasoning and it won't come out. You get angry, grab the bottle, bang it the table (maybe even your head out of desperation), get angry at the person who finished your ketchup and didn't bother to buy a new one. Before you say desperate - it turns out that there is a simple trick for extracting ketchup residues that comes from, not surprisingly, from the network.
The patent, called The ketchup Hack, works like this: you take the unruly ketchup bottle (or mayonnaise, or anything else that gets stuck in the squeeze bottle), hold it at its base, turn your hand quickly and firmly about seven times in counterclockwise circular motions – and that's it. Now the last drops of ketchup should easily come out of the bottle and you've also gained a fitness exercise for your biceps along the way.
@caseyrieger#ketchup#heinz#lifehack♬ original sound - Casey Rieger
This trick is not new and has already amassed close to 50 million views on TikTok (and other social networks in all sorts of variations), but the one who has rekindled the enthusiasm for it is content creator Casey Rieger (whose TikTok account has more than 281,22 followers). Rieger posted a video of herself trying the trick at the end of August. Her TikTok post has so far garnered over 7.2 million views, more than 30 million likes and nearly <>,<> comments.
"I saw someone doing it on TikTok," she said at the beginning of the video, "and I thought it was genius, so I'm going to try it myself," she said. "You know when you're trying to get what's left out of ketchup... Most people just knock on the bottom of the bottle with their palm," she said, demonstrating the patent.
@idapilups#ketchuphack♬ original sound - Ida Pilups
Some commenters were enthusiastic about the trick, but some, as expected, were also skeptical or mocked Rieger. "I'd definitely forget to check the lid closed and then spray the whole kitchen with ketchup," a follower joked. Another wrote: "My shoulder would come out." Another added: "I'm totally going to try it with my shampoo and conditioner bottles."
"It's not really that exciting or innovative," dozens of others wrote, explaining that it's a simple scientific principle based on the application of centrifugal force, which actually causes the ketchup residues to find their way to the bottom of the bottle and allows us to squeeze the bottle to its fullest.
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