If you order takeaway food a lot, chances are you’ve accumulated a surplus of spare cheap chopsticks. I asked the internet what to do about my chopstick clutter, and learned that there are actually some pretty clever uses for them. Here are the best.
Keep Grease Off Your Fingers When Eating at the Computer
Forks are great, but they’re not for everything. For example, they’re not so good at stabbing a Cheesel. Your fingers are better for that, and chopsticks are like long, skinny, wooden finger extenders. Using them to eat snacks, or at least easily handle greasy foods while you’re going between eating and typing, is a good way to power through your collection.
Use Chopsticks To Clean Your Gadgets
Modern technology is notorious for its hard-to-reach places, making cleaning pretty annoying. One solution is taking a chopstick, tying a napkin (or some kind of cloth) to the end of it and using it as a cleaner. It’s a simple solution and you can do it with stuff you’ve already got lying around.
If you don’t have the proper tools for pitting cherries, a pair of chopsticks will do the trick. Just push the chopsticks through the top where the stem used to be and the pit will come out of the bottom.
Shawn notes a few options:
- Use them as a back scratcher.
- Use them as an alternative to a shoe horn
- Stir coffee with a single chopstick.
- Stick them in a hair bun.
Anamari points out that you can use them to stake small plants, especially in the case of tomato plants which can use the help growing upward.
And finally, one not-so-practical use from David:
Make A Five-Round Semi-Automatic Rubber Band Gun
If there’s anything I end up with more of than chopsticks when getting takeout it is rubber bands. This gun finds a use for both.
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