MIT Scientists Invent LiquiGlide To Get Ketchup Out Of The Bottle Easily
The Daily What - It took two months and a whole team of MIT mechanical engineers and nano-technologists, but at long last, mankind has a solution to the ketchup bottle battle. LiquiGlide, a “super slippery” coating, is made up of nontoxic materials that allow the condiment to pour out smoothly, the way it was intended. The lubricant can be applied to all sorts of food packaging, but ketchup likely will be priority number one. One of the biggest challenges the team faced was making sure the coating was safe to consume, which meant ingredients had to be FDA-approved. “We had a limited amount of materials to pick from,” said team member Dave Smith, an MIT Ph.D. candidate. “I can’t say what they are, but we’ve patented the hell out of it.”
Welp, looks like I’m gonna have to completely revise my list of best every day inventions from a couple days ago. This is a game changer, folks. A life changer. The days of sitting at the restaurant looking like you’re jerking off a ketchup bottle are over. Gone are the days of giving up halfway through your bottle shaking with about 1/4 the ketchup you wanted because you just can’t take it anymore. No more “Hit the #57 symbol and it will come out!” No more sticking a knife all the way up there and getting ketchup all over the handle. Because the nerds at MIT have unlocked the secret to the ketchup bottle.
I know some people are gonna be like “Good thing you’re putting your mechanical engineering degree from MIT to good use!” but fuck them. People always act like if you’re a scientist all you should ever be doing is trying to cure cancer or some shit like that. Not to sound insensitive here, but I don’t have cancer. Lots of people don’t have cancer. And a ton more people like ketchup. So it might not exactly be as noble as curing a disease but you can bet your bottom fucking dollar fixing the ketchup bottle problem will effect literally millions of people every second of every day. Thats exactly what I’d wanna do with my MIT degree. Rid the world of one of its most frustrating problems and sit back and watch the money roll in.
LiquiGlide?? sound a little too much like an anal lube to be putting all up in my ketchup.
or everyone could just use the Squeeze Bottles
Or you can just hit the 57 on the bottle, and the Ketchup comes out.
Seriously. You hit the side of the bottle, not the top. It’s not a fucking secret. It’s nice to see scientists working on the important stuff. I wonder which MIT braniac invented the Comfort Wipe? It’s a pole that lets fat people wipe their ass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfGXmxJ1vM
i’m with kfc on this. definitely a good thing if you ask me. you have to hit the 57 about a million times and you still look like a jerkoff doing it. if i can just tilt the fucking bottle and it comes out, i’d be happy. not sure why it took this long to come up with this. i’ve been able to record live television and bounce through commercials for years now, can ring up my buddy in china and talk to him face to face in a matter of seconds but up until today, i couldn’t empty a ketchup bottle
Do any people not like ketchup? I personally find it disgusting
While Im quite happy about this, this still doesn’t get rid of the most diabolical problem ketchup has ever faced. And that is the ketchup packet. The only things that aggravate me more are traffic and waiting in line, which are basically the same thing. Get rid of the ketchup packet and I’ll be a happy happy man
aww how cute, a hydrophilic surface so the ketchup doesn’t stick to the walls. And yes geniuses can also be stoolies.
^fag
How does one dislike Ketchup? You hate America, freedom, and beer also bro?
Personally, I welcome the ketchup challenge. Especially when it becomes competitive among friends. Who can hit the sweet spot and make that bitch flow out? You get 10 seconds to make it spooge then you’re out. Always ends in “I loosened it for you.”
Next up, why potato chip bags are 1/4 full when I open them.
All fun and games until you empty the bottle of ketchup on your burger.
Hydrophobic, rockets212. A hydrophilic coating would cause the ketchup to stick more. But seriously, try harder to look smart on a website where no one cares, jackass.
Its a huge step forward, but I think the new Heniz Dip & Squeeze packets are actually more important. Sadly, seems like no place around here has actually started using them. http://www.heinzketchup.com/Dip-and-Squeeze/Locator/
So I hate to apply the real world here Mr. M.I.T. PhD guy, but why would Heinz pay money so consumers will now be able to get the last 1/8 of their ketchup out of the bottle? So they will pay $ so their sales will go down by 12.5%???
Now they need to invent a good Ketchup stain remover…for when you accidentally knock the bottle over and it empties all over the place.
really bachb?? I remember high school chemistry too you faggot. Water does not adhere to polyethylene (what bottles are made of) at all, even microscopically, but ketchup does. It’s the cellulose of the tomatoes that adhere to the walls of the bottle. You need a surface that is polar to repel cellulose and that is a hydrophilic surface. So remember your place you dumbass and go fuck yourself.
^^fag
hahaha pedrofartinez ur killin me with those comments!! rockets212, you a genius bro?
fuck restauraunts that are still on their glass bottle ketchup bullshit .. get the squeeze bottle and get with the fucking times already, it may look a little shotty but then we could use these genius MIT nerds to invent something worthwhile because this honestly is a pretty sweet creation I must say
oh and to piggy back on pedofartinez’s comments..rockets212 you are certainly a fag