For example, I’m incredibly confused about how you’re supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap. At least the kind that I have sits on it’s side, so if you measure it with the cap it just leaks everywhere and makes a mess.

Or at my parents house they have a bag of captain crunch berries that has a new design, where instead of zipping along the top of the bag like normal, it has a zipper in the front slightly beneath the top. That way when you poor it you can’t see what you’re doing cuz the bag is in the way. Like what the heck who’s idea was that?

  • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl
    10·
    2 days ago

    light bulbs that die too often.

    those pots and sauce pans that use a screw to connect the handle. the screw head generally places inside the pot and will get to all your food.

    chopping boards. plastic chopping boards enhance your meals with microplastic. composite wood enhances your food with bacteria lodged in-between wood pieces. bamboo – too thin and ends up similar to composite.

    • hbar@lemmy.ml
      8·
      2 days ago

      Light bulbs! I thought when we moved away from the traditional incandescent the new stuff was supposed to last forever. Why do they die all the time!?

      • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Can I ask where everyone is from? I’m in the UK, which uses 230v, and even cheap-ass LED bulbs last forever. But a lot of the bulbs are rated for both 230v and 115v so I’m wondering if those same bulbs are being sold in the US. If that’s the case, they’ll need to pull double the current to manage the same output which is far more stressful on the electronics than higher voltage with lower current.

      • ooterness@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        It’s usually because of cheap electrolytic capacitors. Letting a $10+ item die because they were too cheap to pay $0.25 instead of $0.15 for a properly rated component.

      • dustyData@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 days ago

        It’s usually the electronic drivers. They overoverheat and degrade. Most burned LED bulbs still have working LEDs and just need to replace some component of the driver board.

      • vandsjov@feddit.dkEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I use the Phillips Hue bulbs and spots and I’m yet to have one die on me. Some of the bulbs has been in use for more than 10 years. However, I see my fair share of other LED spots that dies too soon.

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
      7·
      2 days ago

      Wood boards don’t harbor bacteria assuming you wash them. The wood dries out and the bacteria die with it. They need moist surfaces with some food supply to grow.