Pasta Spoon

pasta spoon

How you’re using it: For straining only

Just like everything in your kitchen, pasta spoon is very well designed. The holes in the pasta spoon have a very significant role. They are used to measure the amount of spaghetti you cook!

Button Hole

Close up of a top button of a blue shirt

How you’re using it: Just for buttoning’s sake

Every single button hole in a regular shirt is vertical except that one on the top. Ever wondered why? Well, the horizontal buttonhole at the very top is placed there to prevent your shirt from unbuttoning on top.

Staple Remover

Close up of staplers

How you’re using it: Letting the name get the best of you.

There are two other very important uses of it. First, use the teeth of the device to pry open key rings for easier access. The second, go ahead and sterilize it. Now use it to pop your blisters.

Beer Bottles

Multiple green colored beer bottles

How you’re using it: In the wrong spot.

One reason beer bottles are designed with a narrow, elongated neck is to reduce the amount of body heat that is transferred to the liquid. Hold that brewskie by the neck instead of the body, and your beer will stay colder, longer.

Aluminium Foil

How you’re using it: Struggling to keep it in the box.

Their is a easy way of dealing with this problem, on each end of the aluminum foil box are little tabs. Bunch them in before rolling out a sheet of the stuff, and the roll will stay in place. It really is that easy!

Shoelaces

How you’re using it: Your knot is just bad.

It is a fact, that the knot the traditional method produces a knot that faces upward comes undone quite easily. But a 2012 TED talk shows us how we’ve been doing wrong all these years.