Peel Your Banana Backwards

Life – it turns out that you’ve been doing it all wrong.

Because last week it was revealed that cooks, who for decades have crumbled Oxo stock cubes into their cooking with their fingers, are making a basic mistake.

The ‘correct’ – and certainly more efficient way – to add an Oxo cube to your food is to crush and flatten the stock in its foil wrapper before opening the packet with scissors and tipping the resulting granules neatly into your saucepan. The disclosure caused an uproar on social media.

So what other everyday things have we been doing ‘the wrong way’? From peeling off sticky notes to cracking eggs, tying your trainers and eating Toblerone – be prepared to be amazed at the little tips and tweaks that really can change your life.

MANDY FRANCIS takes a look …

Quick Foil Fix

Do you hate the way your rolls of aluminium foil, cling film and greaseproof paper jump out of their boxes and unravel whenever you try to tear off a length? Funnily enough, this irritating quirk is not a design fault. In fact, you are missing a trick.

If you take a look at the small, square ends of your cardboard container, there should be a tab on each end with the words ‘press here’ or ‘push in’. Push those tabs in and they will so they hold the roll of foil in place – much like a toilet roll holder, meaning the roll will be held securely in its box when you next tear off a length of foil, clingfilm or baking parchment.

Sticky solution

Love the convenience of sticky notes (such as Post-Its) but find the way they tend to curl up, stick out from, and sometimes even fall off any flat surface irritating? Just change the way you peel your notes from their stack.

Instead of peeling away from the stack in an upward motion (ie grabbing the loose bottom edge of the note, and peeling off the sticky edge last), try peeling your note across – so that the sticky strip is peeled from the stack from left to right or right to left. This stops the note curling, so it sits nice and flat and will stay put longer.

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