flat coke

Butterfly_Brain

Ham cooked in cola is a definate favourite in our house or why not try cola cake - another Nigella recipe (basically it is chocolate cake with cola in it)
Or mix cola and tomato sauce half and half for a great BBQ sauce
Try http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/heritage/recipes.html


Or failing that it is good for:

• Cleaning Loos
• Getting blood, grease and creosote off clothes
• cleaning burnt pans
• For Baby colic leave out a glass of warm cola during the day and give it a stir now and then during the day so most of the bubbles are out before the colic usually hits, put it in the baby's bottle and allow him/her to drink and burp as normal and the colic is gone. {both of mine had 3 month colic and it worked a charm} - miles better than infacol and a lot cheaper and there is never a chemist open when you need one but there is always an off licence.
• Use it to clean tyres
• Grout cleaner
• Remove oil from the drive
• descale your kettle - put a 2l bottle of cola in your kettle and leave for a day, rinse out and voila a really clean kettle
• cleans corrosion on battery terminals
• loosens rusty screws and bolts
• clears ice off of windscreens also cleans bugs bodies and traffic film off {rinse well after though}
• spray on to grass once a month for a super green lawn
• cheaper than using beer to get rid of slugs

sabretoothtigger

Is that true of diet and caffeine free types I wonder or just the fully acidic sugar coke

Butterfly_Brain

Evidently diet doesn't work as well

tomterm8

If you can get hold of a free second hand soda stream, there is no need for coke ever to go flat.

Butterfly_Brain

Just found another use - it kills mice! if you put a bowl of cola down and they drink it they bloat out and die because they can't burp or vomit
_pale_

Ladyhawk

I left 3 bottle of coke (1 diet) in the car over the weekend and they froze (well the full fat ones did - not sure about the diet one)... has anyone got any other suggestions? I don't eat pork so that's out...

mcjordi

drink it.
its fine and i agree it does taste nicer tbh..

babyshoes

You can cook chicken pieces in it, apparently. I have been served some which was tasty, but never made it myself.

Bronnie

rabbit8587 wrote: »

Thanks everyone, very helpful! Was aware of the cleaning pennies.

Is this a regular OS thing then, laundering your money?

What else? Polishing your pound coins and ironing your fivers?

I'm a worse slattern than I thought then!


:rotfl:

Petlamb

There is a recipe for a sort-of sweet and sour chicken that uses a can of diet coke (so 330ml) with i think 6 tablespoons of ketchup... Not the classiest dish, but tasty and handy in a squeeze! Goes well with rice, and I cant see the coke being flat as being a problem!

Things like onion, sweetcorn etc go well in it too x