Do you have a stash of things in your kitchen that has takeout menus, extra batteries, a toy straw, and rubber bands? You’re not alone. We think we could still use these things and we don’t want to throw them away, but we don’t know where. How many rubber band uses do you know?
These 12 cool rubber band uses would surprise you.
Keep your straws in place.
You have probably experienced trying to drink from your straw only to have it scoot away from your mouth. Use a rubber band next time to keep it right where you want it.
Gives extra grip on jar lids
Other rubber band ideas that will be helpful in your daily life are to use them to give your jar lids extra grip. If you have a particularly tough jar to open, try wrapping a rubber band tightly around it for a little bit more traction.
If it’s really hard to open, put one around the body of the jar as well and grab it with both hands, twisting in opposite directions.
Keep your opened packages fresh
Don’t have any chip clips handy? That’s ok—a rubber band can also work wonders for keeping your containers closed and your food fresh.
Fold your bag of chips and secure it with your rubber band.
Adds a grip edge to your stirring utensils
When cooking, we often need to keep reusing a spoon or other stirring utensil throughout the process—and we don’t want to set it down dirty on the counter.
Still, leaving it in the bowl means it falls in usually. To fix this, use kitchen rubber bands. To do this, try wrapping a rubber band around the end to create a little ledge for it to lean on.
Does a good job with keeping your cooking lids fastened
If you’ve had a slow cooker for a long time, you can relate to this. Sometimes the seal around the lid loosens somewhat and lets the steam escape.
To make sure your lids stay tight, try using rubber bands to secure everything in place. You don’t have to buy them online, use silicone cooking bands or the ones in your kitchen drawer.
Rubber band uses: added grip to your eyeglasses
If your glasses are loose or it’s particularly hot outside, you may notice them beginning to slip down the front of your face.
People who have worn glasses for a long time can relate to this. Fix this easily by wrapping some rubber bands around the back end of the glasses to keep them snug against your head.
Use one with a rolled paper towel as a chopstick trainer
If you’re not very good at using chopsticks, no problem! You’re not alone, and we’ll give you a tip that will help you.
Did you know that you can learn how to make training chopsticks at home? Simply roll up some paper towels into a little rectangle and put them at the end of your chopsticks.
Wrap a rubber band around each side of the chopsticks and around the paper towel to hold it in place. In the end, you have your rubber band chopsticks and you can start using them.
Make your own empty tissue container using rubber bands
Ok, so this one is more of a tissue box hack than a rubber band hack. Still, why not use a rubber band to keep two boxes of tissues together, one full and one empty?
If you do this, the empty one can serve as an immediate dirty tissue container! Cool, huh?
Keep your sliced apples fresh by putting them back together
Here are other uses of a rubber band that you have been ignoring for a while. Although sliced apples can be a delicious snack, sometimes we cut more of them than we can actually eat in one sitting.
If you want to keep them from oxidizing and turning brown, use a rubber band to bind the whole apple together and enjoy it later on.
They can help in keeping cutting boards in place
Having a cutting board sliding around all over the place while you’re working can be annoying and dangerous.
Use rubber bands to keep it in place. Just put rubber bands around either end of it to give it more grip on the surface of the counter.
Try them on a rolling pin to control the dough thickness
Rolling out dough for bread and other baked goods can be a painstaking process—you have to constantly monitor the temperature, amount of flour, and how thick the dough is.
You can make the task easier by putting thicker bands around the ends of the rolling pin to keep everything to an even height.
Ease the flow on any squirt bottles you have
If you have a squirt bottle that always shoots liquid out too quickly, fix that without much effort.To do so, wrap a rubber band just under the pushdown part to slow the mechanism down.
Takeaway
These are just a few rubber band uses that will make your life easier. In fact, you could still discover so many rubber band hacks. Share this with your friends and family!
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Source: YouTube/Simple Tricks & Hacks