Every once in a while an act of genius or serendipity brings forth a product that has a profound effect on humanity.
Examples include the lightbulb, internal combustion engine, telephone, radio, television, integrated circuit, VCR, personal computer, internet, DVD and...
....stay-clean sauce-bottle cap.
Top view - Left, new-gen stay-clean cap;
right, old-style mucky cap (click for larger image)
Inside view - Left, new-gen stay-clean cap;
right, old-style mucky cap (click for larger image)
But, sadly, this latest invention has not yet been adopted by all sauce makers and not even across the range by Heinz, whose idea, it seemingly was.
So...
...fed up with having a drippy Salad Cream bottle,
Standard drippy
Salad Cream bottle
I checked whether the Stay Clean cap from an empty Tomato Sauce bottle would fit.
To my delight, I found that it did.
And, the pimped bottle Salad Cream not only stays clean but looks a whole lot sexier, too.
Customised Salad Cream
bottle - with Stay Clean cap
Currently, though, as you can see, there's a bit of a mismatch between Tomato Sauce and Salad Cream.
Visual dischord
So, some further changes will be required for the mod to be complete and for me to be totally happy with the pimping job:
1/ The main labels (front and back) need to be removed, rotated 180 degrees and replaced
2/ Trickier still, the same will have to happen to the label on the neck of the bottle
But, these are things that must to wait for a less busy time.
Bob