What have you been doing all wrong?

candygirl

tiredwithtwins wrote: »

you can do that to an oxo cube!!!?????


but I secretly like licking my fingers after ive crushed it haha ...

Me too:rotfl: I'm carrying on the old way :rotfl:

Farway

MY ones are so old they are just soggy lumps anyway, more squish than crumble

bexster1975

Indeed tizerbelle. I have been doing it ever since!

When I read it I thought it was cobblers! So of course I immediately tested the theory....

Bexster

kerri_gt

bexster1975 wrote: »

Hi

I found out that oxo cubes are little sachets if you pull out the corners you can crush the cube whilst in the packet and then rip and pour out. I have lived my whole life not knowing this, thinking they were just foil wrapped cubes you had to unwrap and crush in your fingers!

Is it just me?!?

Bexster

my mum used to crumble cubes in with her fingers - I suspect that in yesteryear the foil wasn't heat sealed in the same way it is now and many of us just followed what we saw parents / grandparents doing..in fact, I remember an advert for Oxo cubes when it was crumbled in .... and questioning Lynda is like suggesting Queen Mary Berry is making cakes incorrectly :rotfl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj-WJHUO6ag

pavlovs_dog

I remember trawling the local high street as a teen in search of pipe cleaners for an art project. I went home to my mum bemoaning that whmiths, woolies and the local stationers had all failed me.

She asked why I hadn't gone to the tobacconists, to which I told her not to be ridiculous, they wouldn't sell art supplies! I thought she was pulling my leg that pipe cleaners were actually for cleaning pipes :D

bexster1975

I know the very advert Kerri! If it was good enough for " oxo mum"....

Bexster

ancientofdays

I was delighted to read this about Oxo cubes until I realised that it doesn't apply to Knorr cubes. I don't like Oxo.

My OH eats his toast upside down (the toast not him) because he says that his tastebuds are on his tongue and not on the roof of his mouth. I see exactly what he means but for clumsy me, the likelihood of getting buttery pjs would be increased. But apparently I Am Wrong.

sillyvixen

kerri_gt wrote: »

my mum used to crumble cubes in with her fingers - I suspect that in yesteryear the foil wasn't heat sealed in the same way it is now and many of us just followed what we saw parents / grandparents doing..in fact, I remember an advert for Oxo cubes when it was crumbled in .... and questioning Lynda is like suggesting Queen Mary Berry is making cakes incorrectly :rotfl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj-WJHUO6ag

To be honest, I have not used an o xo cube in 30 years (I don't like the veggie ones - prefer marmite as stock) but back in the day they used to be wraped in foil like boxed presents and would need opening like knor cubes still do, hence Linda Bellingham needing to unwrap and crumble as in the 70's adds.
Mum always used knor but I remember my nan giving me o xo to unwrap before she crumbled it into cooking.

Spendless

sillyvixen wrote: »

To be honest, I have not used an o xo cube in 30 years (I don't like the veggie ones - prefer marmite as stock) but back in the day they used to be wraped in foil like boxed presents and would need opening like knor cubes still do, hence Linda Bellingham needing to unwrap and crumble as in the 70's adds.
Mum always used knor but I remember my nan giving me o xo to unwrap before she crumbled it into cooking.

That's what I remember, you needed to unwrap it. Wonder when they changed? It sounds like oxo missed a whole marketing campaign to inform us of this.

castleton

I lived to the age of 40 years before I saw a friend take off the top of a tube and use the spike on it to pierce the silver seal.

I felt so silly. I had been using a skewer.