I just boil and eat the entire box like any normal person.
I pay for the box. I eat the box.
Most of the nutrients are in the rind, I’m aghast to learn that most people just throw the box away!
If it tastes like it looks on the package, a viable option. Has probably more nutritional value, too.
How do you tell when it’s done?
When you can’t read the box anymore, obviously…
Look at the girth of that dude’s index finger. No wonder it works for him.
Hahaha
The post does not say that you will be able to penetrate with the index finger. It just recommends to place the finger that way.
If you want to be able to penetrate with an index finger, I’m off work in about 2 hours. Wait…what?
while you kiss your ass goodbye, and the box of noodles and cheesy flavoring defeats you yet again
I feel the secret might be how the thumb and middle finger squeeze the sides of the box.
I’ll try it out someday, but I probably won’t report back. (Don’t want to get your hopes up).
I used to just cut the top off of the box using a kitchen knife. I would start just below one of the corners, with the box on it’s side, and I sawed through it.
I got some funny looks for that one when I first did it on autopilot around other people lmao.
You know that the serrated lines on the box aren’t great when cutting the cardboard with a kitchen knife is legitimately easier. The blade wasn’t even serrated.
I think you all just have weak thumbs. I’ve always opened them just as the package says to. Never had a problem.
As a kid, I would have thumb wrestling matches with my older brother, and sometimes, on weekends, I’d hitchhike. I used my thumbs a lot. I’ve had to replace 4 space bars on my keyboard.
Never skip thumb day.
Do you even lift to open bro?
I actually just recently, after years of frustration, figured out a technique that works. You squeeze the box near the opening so that it bulges out. Then you can poke it with your finger and rip the top open. Feels like gutting a fish, which I assume now is what they were going for.
I usually just knuckle-punch them in.
It’s not that your thumbs aren’t strong enough, it’s that they aren’t sharp enough.
It’s possible, but it’s a very high Dex roll.
Latest kitty litter I bought actually says “opens inward for easy pouring” 🙄. Worst part of the chore stabbing it with a finger and hooking the tab back through so it doesn’t block all the litter.
Use a tool. Handle of butter knife, bottle opener. Anything sturdier than a finger those litter boxes are made out of something that masquerades as cardboard, don’t believe those lies!
90% of the time the whole box collapses before the perforation breaks.
I just rip open the top of the box instead.
That’s right, I’m a rebel.
It’s not you. The only person that consistently works for is Freddy Krueger.
Edward Scissorhands
You’re not extending your chi through your finger when you push. The instructions take that for granted, but they really should be more specific.
I tried extending my chi, but it just made my jar of salsa fall on the floor and shatter.
The Weaklings must be sacrificed to the pit of fire.
You’re supposed to use your thumb to lift that flap, as instructed, not try to punch a hole in it. Start at the side.
As instructed: ‘insert thumb’.
I don’t think I am the only one thinking inserting on a flat fragile surface means: “punch hole”.
If it had some cavity for your thumb to be inserted in it would make more sense.
“Grip corner and lift”?
Yeah I get it … but yeah they meant like insert in-between the flaps. That said not sure what wording I would use there.
it aren’t supposed to be your thumb just a thumb.
An unsettling yet plausible interpretation
Good God, the number of products where someone spent the time and effort to design in “systems” for opening/using the package, which are utterly ineffectual is mind boggling.
Did a flimsy cardboard box ever need some special tear tab to begin with?? Hell no, just glue the flap shut and we will open it like every other food box on the planet.
Shit that is infuriating.
