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“Does Your Country Have An Invention That Never Made It To The Outside World?” (38 Answers)
Sometimes we take things we have around for granted. Basically, we assume that this one useful thing we always have available will be like this whenever we travel around the world. And then we learn how wrong we were.
Just like these inventions named in today's listicle. Apparently, they're only popular among people from certain countries and not elsewhere. So, just imagine getting used to utilizing in your day-to-day life only to learn that doing that outside of your country's borders is nearly impossible, because it simply doesn't exist there.
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#1
The „Superfest“ Glass. Scientists in the GDR developed it, trying to make standard glass more durable. They used the ion exchange method, replacing sodium ions on the glasses surface with potassium ions, this is the same method Gorilla Glass is fastened with. The glass was 15 times more durable than normal glass. When they tried to sell the glasses to other companies and into other (western) countries, they failed, because no one wanted to sell glasses that don’t break. After the reunion of Germany the production got stopped, but today there are still plenty of glasses (mostly in eastern Germany) in use, just because they are so durable.
Mel in Georgia 1 month ago
It's ridiculous that we buy so many products that are made to break quickly. I guess it keeps the world's economic machine running, but it's so wasteful and expensive in the long run.
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
The world's economic machine ran perfectly fine for decades before planned obsolescence, because companies concentrated on quality and innovation. Now they just want your money, but will provide you with a garbage product.
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Panda McPandaface 1 month ago (edited)
What's to stop someone reviving production? I realise they would hit the same distribution problems but internet shopping and direct selling only might work.
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#2
The *harrumph* "Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher", a device for people with OCD who also like a boiled egg in the morning. You place it on the egg, pull the ball up and let it *clack* fall down. Creates a perfectly round defined breaking circle to lift the head of the egg...☝️😀...!
Moving Enigma 1 month ago
I have one (and have given them as presents often). They are awesome although it takes a while until you get the technique right but when you do only the top shell is removed leaving a perfect white dome to dig in to.
sturmwesen 1 month ago
I think I saw it once in nearly 40 years in a private home. not really common
Alli K. 1 month ago
Cute try but besides the fact that it's a *very* niche item, the common name actually is "Eierköpfer" (roughly translates as "egg guillotine"). German speakers would understand the meaning of the super long word but it's just too long to be practical. There are enough long words that can't be avoided to add unnecessary "Zungenbrecher" to the mix.
Twidder Sux 1 month ago (edited)
The must-have if you ever want to eat Œufs à la coque et mouillettes (French for "Dipping Soldiers"). The "soldiers" being strips of toast you dunk into the runny egg yolk.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago (edited)
I love this name. German? Foreigner: "What is this?" German: "A thing for doing this thing to this other thing" F: "Ah. What is it called?" G: *confused* "Thing for doing this thing to this other thing..."
Calane E. Vanya 1 month ago
Even though I knew a little German, I didn't believe this word is real, so I googled it. it seems like it is, but I'm still suspicious.
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
Germans can make a compound word out of anything
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Sauna sausage pipe. You put the sausage in the stone cylinder, place it on the sauna stones and you get a cooked sausage as a post-sauna snack.
Maybe the reason it didn't become an international success is that it makes the whole sauna smell of sausage grease.
JL 1 month ago
"it makes the whole sauna smell of sausage grease" - that seems like a selling point
Bjørn Langbakk 4 weeks ago
For ca. 30 år siden, så fantes det noe lignende, men både for pølser og pølsebrød. Jeg husker iikke helt den så ut, men jeg tror en måtte bruke strøm.
Deta Rossiter 1 month ago
not an internation success as other sausages will will be inserted into the sausage pipe...... OMS what am i typing. HAHA
Quite a lot of people dream of being the inventors of something big and meaningful, especially when they’re little. In the young days, such a dream seemed like an inviting career path.
Then, over time, you start realizing that, in reality, becoming a renowned inventor might not be as easy as it looked, and you start looking for other career opportunities. And yet, for many, his dream remains in the back of their minds, even if it is an unrealistic one.
#4
Automatic pasta machine. Guzzles flour and eggs, craps tagliatelle.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
I have one of these, though it does spaghetti and two other pastas, so it has made it to Australia.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
I have a thing that does that, with attachments for different types of pasta. Real PITA to clean, so I don't use it as much as I should.
Francesca Annoni 1 month ago
They look like bucatini...it' a pasta type similar to a straw...
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nm 1 month ago
That's no fusilli at all. Fusilli is a spiral or corkscrew-shaped pasta.
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The dish drying cabinet was developed in Finland in the 40s. It was build in practically every kitchen but has declined a bit in popularity since dish washing machines have become popular. Still very useful for non-machine-washable stuff.
Noltha 1 month ago
I used to hate it when I was renting an apartment in Italy. The water dripping from above on my arms when washing dishes...
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
I did have a look at a dish rack that installed over the sink, much like this cabinet. All I could think of was water running down my arm and inside my sleeve every time I put a dish in the rack. I'll pass.
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Ageing_Changeling 1 month ago
I am gratified to discover that this is a real-world thing! I built one of these in each of my first two flats after I moved out.
#6
In Australia (predominantly in South Australia), we have the 'Stobie Pole' - it is a utility/power line pole that is made of two steel beams with a slab of concrete in between them. It was invented out of necessity due to a lack of suitable timber. You can ask permission from the power company to paint artwork onto the pole.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
I've definitely never seen them in Victoria. I do like the trend (in many countries) of painting utility boxes though.
In fact, some even go out of their way to try to make it a reality. Whether doing that in their free time or in their job, sometimes giving up on a dream might seem more impossible than realizing it. And it’s not like no one is successful in doing that – some people do make it as inventors.
Then, they have to go through with filing a patent, which would grant them exclusive rights for their invention, so no one else could take the credit for it, make, use, or sell the creation. Of course, the process of patent filing depends from country to country, but the general idea of it still stands.
#7
The Minitel, used before internet became mainstream. Minitel made it possible to use services (like book train tickets, buy stuff, chat, check opening hours etc., all this just through the telephone lines. As far as I know it never took off outside of France...
Rick Murray 1 month ago (edited)
Most of the Minitel I've seen (and the two I own) are Minitel 1B and 2. One has a keyboard that folds up to cover the screen, the other has the keyboard slide in underneath the screen. Neither look quite as ancient and dated as this thing.
Bjørn Langbakk 4 weeks ago
Minitel var en fransk onlineservice for teledata (fransk: Vidéotex) som var tilgjengelig via telefonnettet. Den blir ansett for å ha vært en av verdens mest suksessfulle onlinetjenester før World Wide Web. Testing av Minitel begynte i 1978 i Bretagne og bredte seg til hele Frankrike i 1982 med hjelp av Poste, Téléphone et Télécommunications (PTT). Det ble utviklet en egen terminal med sort-hvit skjerm, tastatur og modem, som ble gitt bort til kundene. I Norge ble det gjort testforsøk med et minitel-prosjekt på Gjøvik, Lillehammer og Rjukan i Tinn kommune, der det ble delt ut et stort antall gratis terminaler. Disse byene kunne således kommunisere med hverandre via Minitel i prosjektet. Det norske prøveprosjektet var et forskningsprosjekt i regi av Teledirektoratet, og terminalene ble produsert av Alcatel STK i en norsk utgave, for øvrig omtalt i et hefte "Minitel i husstander : Minitelprosjektet på Rjukan og Lillehammer", utgitt av Televerkets forskningsinstitutt i 1992.
howdylee 1 month ago
Why is the keyboard messed up? Do keyboards in France typically use this layout, as opposed to QWERTY?
Giraffe Sitter 1 month ago (edited)
The AZERTY keyboard was common in France and Belgium and was specifically optimized for the French language.
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Ace 1 month ago
Yeah, the French were still using these, or a later variant of, well into the 2000s. One of the reasons they were, and still are IMO, so much behind the rest of the world in internet usage.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
On the other hand, there wasn't much call for internet in France as this service existed long before the internet was a thing. The problem was that due to the huge number of old tech terminals around (it is basically built around a very simple modem, an 8051 all-in-one chip and an ED9345 video chip), they never really managed to get beyond the treacle slow 1200/75 behaviour. Some enhancements were made and later models could do vector graphics and JPEGs, but few people had compatible units. Had it enhanced itself to keep pace with contemporary technology it would have been phenomenal, but it stayed "something from the early 80s" until sometime around 2010 when it was clear that people were using the internet.
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Kimchi fridges.
Honestly not exactly useful outside of Korea I guess.
Russell Bowman 1 month ago
Local H-Mart in Northern Virginia has a whole section dedicated to Kimchi appliances
tameson 4 weeks ago
From Wikipedia: A kimchi refrigerator is a refrigerator designed specifically to meet the storage requirements of kimchi and facilitate different fermentation processes. The kimchi refrigerator aims to be colder, with more consistent temperature, more humidity, and less moving air than a conventional refrigerator, providing the ideal environment for fermentation of kimchi. Some models may include features such as a UV sterilizer. In a consumer survey aimed at South Korean homemakers conducted by a top-ranking Korean media agency in 2004, the kimchi refrigerator was ranked first for most wanted household appliance..
#9
The famous Dutch 'trekmuur' (pull-wall). Deep fried snacks that are kept warm like this. You pay with coins (or card for modern ones) and you pull on the lid to open and get an unhealthy snack. Found in cities, amusement parks etc. Really popular at 02:00 in the night with all the drunk folk looking for some food.
S Bow 1 month ago
This kind of thing used to be popular in the US decades ago, there were restaurants that used this setup, they were called automats and were quite popular for a while. It wasn't just fried food though, you could get an entire meal.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
Like the automats of my childhood. A nickel got you all sorts of things. Yes I'm old.
Just as the possibility of patent rejection. Just because you think you invented something big, doesn’t mean that the people who are responsible for giving out patents will think the same thing.
The fault in getting the patent might fall to inadequate disclosure while filling out the application, or a lack of utility to be patentable. The creation might be viewed as not enough of an “improvement” of the existing creations or just as not a novel thing at all.
#10
Girolle.
While a lot have some kind of Fondue pot or Raclette device, I never saw this in a private household outside of Switzerland.
Ace 1 month ago
Famously from the Jura area, which I often pass. There's a restaurant up there whose name I can't remember, in an old monastery, which I think lays claim to being the original source of this cheese and the spiral device to scrape it off into fan-shaped circles. Ah, here we go maisondelatetedemoine dot ch
#11
Ham Holder/Stand. Don’t really know how to call it in English. It is very common here in Spain to buy and cut ham legs yourself. For that purpose, we have this ham holder to cut ham confortably. Also we have specific ham knifes that I don’t know if they are useful besides cutting hum.
Edit: hahaha I’m sorry friends.I definitely failed in my “Spanish-only device”. Looks like this device is all around the world.🤣.
sturmwesen 1 month ago
big supermarkets sell them around christmas in Germany. mostly with one bacon included
Ace 1 month ago
Yeah, these get rolled out in shops including Aldi and Lidl across France and Switzerland around this time of year as well. Often sold as a set, complete with the ham and the special knife to carve it into fine slices... which nobody but a true Spaniard is ever able to achieve, IME. Had one once, presumably still kicking around somewhere.
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 1 month ago
A friend brought us a big Iberian ham from Spain and my husband bought a holder like this for it (not as fancy, though.) Only used it the one time!
Don't listen to me 1 month ago
UK here. Our old ham knife is still in the family 2 generations down already.
Chewie Baron 1 month ago
You can get them now in the UK. Either a really expensive one in the hundreds, or Aldi/Lidl in the few tens of pounds.
Bjørn Langbakk 4 weeks ago
Familien hadde noe lignende engang på 90-tallet, begynnelsen av 2000-tallet. Den ble ikke brukt så ofte.
Barbara Wilcock 1 month ago
Last Christmas I got one. Including a huge leg of parma. I keep it in the cold in the garage
DeoManus Argentem 1 month ago
They sell these at Costco (US) - even comes with the special knife (really more like a small sword, hah!)
#12
Bottle scraper. You use it to scrape the contents out of a bottle or jar that you normally would throw away along with the bottle. Purest example of Dutch thrift.
Yet, this shouldn’t be taken as a discouragement – after all, we live during the times where a few innovation booms have passed. Here, solely from 1900 to 1949, many groundbreaking inventions, such as airplanes, radios, and safety razors, were made. Not to mention the boom of technology innovations in the second half of the 20th century and the first part of the 21st century.
And that’s just taking into account the most well-known innovations. Besides them, there are plenty of others that are known only in certain contexts. Just take a look at the list we’re serving you today.
#13
I guess this tortilla press. You use it literally to make homemade tortillas. Surely they exist in the southern US or something but I would imagine nobody else has it.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
You can definitely buy them in Australia. My brother has one or two. They were especially useful before shops started selling gluten free tortillas (still probably cheaper to make your own).
marcelo D. 4 weeks ago
smaller versions are used for empanadas and dumplings in several countries
#14
Hjell. Wooden rack used for drying fish outdoors in cold, windy coastal climates.
#15
The lunch dabba! There’s a whole network of workers called [dabbawalas]
Bjørn Langbakk 4 weeks ago
Programmet Top Gear så kunne vi se slike bli brukt i India.
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Fatér Dezső 4 weeks ago
Still used in Hungary, elderly/vulnerable/disabled ppl get their daily meal in these by gov/local authorities in their own home, there are plastic/metal ones.
Lucidus Astrum 4 weeks ago
Tiffin box? I recently bought one on Amazon for my youngest starting college
It’s full of people listing things that are a grand creation in the countries they’re from, but not really anywhere else. Sometimes, some innovations shouldn’t be groundbreaking on a global scale; just a nationwide scale is more than enough.
Does your country have anything that you have never seen anywhere else? What is it?
#16
I was very surprised to not see this so often outside of post-Soviet countries
Not particularly an invention but still
edit with explanation: it's a champagne/ vine cork putten into a metal lid handle. It doesn't take heat so you can take a lid off without using pot holder
edit2: I was told that champagne ones work much better so here is some more knowledge for you
Auntriarch 1 month ago
I've got two lids with metal handles and it's a pain to keep picking up a cloth to lift them, excuse me while I open a couple of bottles...
nm 1 month ago
Yeah, every Soviet citizen in his izba had a cellar with french champagne and used the corks.
M O'Connell 1 month ago
Only the French get upset about champagne that doesn't come from Champagne. Sparkling white wine can be found in basically any grape-growing region. Sovetskoye Shampanskoye, for example.
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In Poland when we go to the beach we take that thing called "parawan" and make our own small private spaces. Not only that but it also stops wind which is common on beaches at the Baltic sea. I don't think I ever saw something like this anywhere else.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 month ago
As a kid in holiday in the UK, we had a windbreak, but it wasn't as comprehensive as those in the picture. Ours had 2 panels IIRC
Panda McPandaface 1 month ago (edited)
Ours had three - so there (raspberry).
Load More Replies... Bjørn Langbakk 4 weeks ago
Jeg tror at dem bruker sånt i England, men er ikke sikker. Mener å ha sett det vært brukt i tv-serien Poirot.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
These were common in Australia in the past, but now most people use pop-up sun shelters (which are incredibly hard to put away when it's really windy, once it took a group of us about half an hour, and I think we broke it).
#18
Behold the Brazilian eletric shower.
Eduardo Kraszczuk 1 month ago
Brazilian here. Just a quick explanation about this: as many must have figured, there is an electric heater inside the shower, that heats up the water. The device is designed so it turns on automatically when there is water flowing through it, and turns off automatically when not being used. As long as the electrical part is done correctly, it is actually very safe. That "thing" in the picture was obviouly installed without any regards for safety , and looks like it had a short-circuit. (By the way, the green wire is suposed to be safety grounding, and it was not even conected)
Rob Stevens 1 month ago
You go ahead and show me how it works. I'll stand over here where my feet stay dry while you do it. Go on now...
nm 1 month ago
I have been there and used it. There are millions of this device in Brazil. The current is in direct contact with the water. The cables are fixed on a rubber disk, which makes contact by water pressure, as soon as the faucet is turned on. The voltage in Brazil is only 110V. There is no risk, provided the connections are well made and the system is well grounded.
LizzieBoredom 1 month ago
Judging from the condition of the wall, not very well.
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Siege Rook 1 month ago
Not just no, but hell no. Not just hell no, but **** no. B******k??!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo... !
#19
I believe garbage disposals are very uncommon outside the US
Ace 1 month ago
That's because we recognised many years ago that pumping all that organic waste into the sewage/water system is a really bad idea.
arthbach 1 month ago
It's not just the organic waste being pumped into the waste water system, it's also about the water and power needed to run them.
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Dave Walters 1 month ago
First thing I did when we moved to our house was remove a garbage disposal - it was horrible, I still feel sick thinking about the decades of congealed slime (UK)
Bjørn Langbakk 4 weeks ago
Større sjanser for at rotter og mus kommer seg inn i hus eller leiligheter.
Chewie Baron 1 month ago
A children’s home I lived at, in Greater Manchester, had one there. I used to love turning it on.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
Uncommon, but existed in the past. My grandad put one in the house he built in Australia in the 70s. By the early 2000s we had i removed.
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
They're uncommon in the US as well, at least in the past couple decades.
#20
A bicycle made out of plastic. Go figure why it failed.
#21
The Robertson screw/fastener. Henry Ford wanted to use the Robertson screw because it was faster and better for assembly, but the inventor wouldn’t give Ford control over manufacturing. The deal collapsed, Ford adopted Phillips instead, and the Robertson never became a global standard.
DerpPlerp 1 month ago
Wait... what? There aren't common? We use these all the time in Canada! TIL
Rick Murray 1 month ago
TIL that this s***w exists. It is now my life's quest to find a square screwdriver in case I ever come across one...
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Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
You can still buy these in the US. The design seems much superior to the Phillips, and absolutely superior to the slotted.
WindySwede 1 month ago
Torx is my favourite. And slotted can only e used for replacing visible screws on old things. Like in an old house. Otherwise there are no use for the slotted one.
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Well yeah, posidrive and later Torx heads are simply much better, so this one is no great surprise. There are still some specialist uses for unusual s***w heads like this though.
WindySwede 1 month ago
BP posts daily about dress shaming, prompting orn stars, but we can't write 🔩 (that it the closest pic i could find..)
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Philips was specifically designed to slip on the bit at high torque so it couldn't be overtightened. I think for use on aeroplanes. That's why they always wear out the heads and the bits keep slipping. Torx was designed NOT to slip, on the other hand.
#22
The electric cargo bicycle. Commonly used to pick up kids from school, or transporting larger cargo. It's cheap to use, easier to navigate in a busy city than a car, and parking is always available and free.
#23
Probably this thing: the Poffertjespan. The best ones are made of cast iron. It's sole purpose is to be able to bake one of our national sweet dishes: poffertjes.
Edit: this is NOT the same as an æbleskiver pan. Poffertjes are shallow diskshaped, not ballshaped like æbleskiver, so the pan's shape is different.
You can't make ballshaped dishes in a poffertjespan, and you can't make decent æbleskiver using a poffertjespan. Trust me, I know 😅
Serena Myers 1 month ago
Well, OP did mention "ballshaped" so not too much of a reach!
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Spannidandoolar 1 month ago
I tried to make poffertjes once as they are in an episode of Bluey, I used a muffin tray shallow filled to make the discs and it worked pretty well but then I've never seen real thing...
tameson 4 weeks ago
My daughter's great-grandmother was Danish so she grew up with æbleskiver for Christmas breakfast. I bought her a pan a few years ago.
Svenne O'Lotta 4 weeks ago
We definitely don't eat æbleskiver for breakfast
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 1 month ago
Very common in Australia, but again that is our multiculturalism I guess. I love buying them at farmers markets and festivals.
#24
"Spätzlepresse" Noodle maker common in southern Germany.
Ace 1 month ago
Yeah, most people don't make their own Spaetzle, its available fresh chilled for little cost. One of my favourites. A proper chef will make it with a knife on a wooden board, scraping pieces off into a pot of boiling water (I did it myself, successfully, one time only) then cool until needed. Fry up in butter until it gets lovely eggy crispy brown bits on the surface, absolutely delicious. See also Knepfle, a slightly larger version. both very popular in Alsace and across the whole region including Switzerland and Austria.
Pernille 1 month ago
I recently tried making a Spätzleflette as im trying as many variations of tartiflette as I can, it was good, but I'm still partial to a strange version with chorizo and gnocchi that a neighbour has invented.
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Huddo's sister 1 month ago (edited)
I made some in Australia, I think I used a colander or something to drip it through. This would have been much easier. Haven't made it since.
Robert Trebor 1 month ago
I have a similar fevice called a ricer which I use to pulverize boiled eggs for egg salad.
#25
This is a water filter made of clay.
Very popular in Brazilian homes.
It keeps the water fresh, but with a questionable taste. They say the older the better.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago (edited)
Used to be common in Australia, before refrigeration (as did the bags hung on a hook beneath verandas).
#26
Although there are similar items in certain zones of Portugal, the "botijo" or "búcaro" is one of the most Spaniard things you can have. It keeps water cold even in the worst of Summer.
Laszlo Larthlanc 4 weeks ago
Archaeological evidence shows that these have been in use in Greece since at least 2500 BCE, and in the Indus Valley since at least 3000 BCE. It was a good idea that lasted.
#27
Cuscuzeira. It's a specific type of kitchen utensil used to make Brazilian-style couscous (known as "cuscuz"), most prevalent in the Northeast region of the country.
#28
The traditional South Indian coffee maker. Makes creamy, mellow coffee that would probably send black coffee drinkers into conniptions but is very tasty and easy on the stomach.
sturmwesen 1 month ago
I looked it up and it works like a vietnamese filter basically. a tin with tiny holes, filled with coffee followed by a metall plate with holes as a weight. you pour the water over the metall plate into the tin, so it seeps through the coffee and the bottom of the tin into a container
#29
Turkey deep-fry pots
Why wait hours for your turkey to roast in the oven when you can turn it into a piece of charcoal in 30 minutes?
It’s of the most disaster-prone cooking vessels ever invented. Every Thanksgiving there are reports of people setting fire to their yards, decks, and homes.
Pandaodboredem22 1 month ago
Honestly you'd have to be pretty stupid to start a fire with a turkey deep fryer. Add the cold turkey to the fryer after patting off water, add oil to measure, pull the turkey out, heat oil, and very slowly drop in. It says it right in the manual!!!
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
Bold of you to assume people are reading the manual in 2025...lol.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
I recall an incident during my childhood where we spent Thanksgiving at my dad's friend's house. Dad's friend was hyped to try deep-frying a turkey. He had a long pot that basically looked like the fuselage of a small missile. It was placed over a propane-fueled firepit and FILLED nearly to the brim with boiling oil. I don't remember the exact details as I was too young to really understand the "why", but I think my dad's friend dropped the turkey in while it was still cold/frozen. Let's just say that the turkey literally LAUNCHED into the sky and flew quite far XD My dad's friend had been using a long pole to drop it in, so he wasn't burned by the splashing oil, and nothing caught on fire, but I still remember that turkey flying across his yard. It probably wasn't airborne for more than a second or two, but it seemed like MUCH longer when I was a kid XD Literally no one else I've ever known has ever tried to deep-fry a turkey, just my dad's crazy friend, over three decades ago XD
LizzieBoredom 1 month ago
In the United States, we call this 'GiveTheFireDepartmentSomethingToDoOnThanksgiving'.
MedusaWasBeautiful 4 weeks ago
By the look of the material, those are leggings and not tights.
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#30
Biltong maker. Make dried meats, like Biltong and Droëwors at home. Just a box with a fan and light. I feel like dried meat is popular kinda everywhere, but not a lot of countries have this in thier homes.
Deta Rossiter 1 month ago
yes yes. Some people make their own drynig racks at home! South Africa BTW
Auntriarch 1 month ago
Yes! I made one from a cardboard box with a light bulb in the base. Now I just use the oven on defrost setting.
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#31
For the UK
Sinclair C5 Perfect exhaust pipe inhalation height
Ace 1 month ago
It never made it in the UK either. Was viewed as a joke by most people. Sir Clive Sinclair, pictured, did have a lot of notable successes, such as some of the earliest pocket calculators, back in the early-mid 1970s. And the first digital watches too, now I come to think about it.
Bjørn Langbakk 4 weeks ago
Sinclair C5 var en trehjuls, batteridrevet el-moped lansert i 1985, utviklet av Sir Clive Sinclair, ment for billig, miljøvennlig persontransport i Storbritannia; den hadde en toppfart på 24 km/t, men ble en kommersiell fiasko på grunn av dårlig ytelse (spesielt i bakker), lav sikkerhet, og eksponering for været, selv om den senere fikk kultstatus og entusiaster bygger om de originale modellene
Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
Not just the inhalation of exhaust...it was invisible to lorry drivers, so there would have been a lot of accidents.
#32
Half Boiled Egg maker from Malaysia.
We eat our eggs here on the runnier side, with soy sauce and black pepper. This invention makes the perfect version of Malaysian Half Boiled eggs. Theres no guessing or timing. Just follow the water.
Ace 1 month ago
Soft-boiled (I presume that's what they meat by half-boiled) eggs are common across the world, and every few years there seems to be a resurgence of gadgets to make one of the easiest tasks in the kitchen even easier. Regarded by most as a solution to no actual problem.
Hugo 1 month ago
Thanks for the explanation: I thought it meant the eggs are halved!
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
I have an egg boiler. You can make soft or hard boiled eggs depending on how much water you put in. Works great, uses less electricity than the stove (electricity is crazy expensive in South Africa).
Auntriarch 1 month ago
I have one because I'm rubbish at boiling eggs, and it's foolproof.
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#33
Electric solo BBQ grill
JL 1 month ago
It would be nice if these posts listed which countries these things supposedly never made it out of.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 month ago
If you go to the original post there is a country indicator under each username. This is Japanese
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Swans that made from tires, I guess. Used for decoration
Update: today I learned that this thing is much more common across the world than I thought. Cool
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
Again, which country? They are super common in Australia, but I imagine them also being found in places like America. We also make children's swings from tyres and many other things.
M O'Connell 1 month ago
Do you have the children's swings that are a tire cut to look like a little horse?
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Rumour has it, is this is quite unique in Germany: The „egg piercer“. You pinch an tiny hole into the bottom part of the shell an it reduces the risk of cracking open while cooking the eggs in a pot of boiling water. Easy physics 😉
There is also the egg-slicer and ofc the „Sollbruchstellen“-tool that earned some popularity in internet puns. But both are more gimmicky, while the piercer is very common in most households.
Shannon Donnelly 1 month ago
I just bought one of these on Temu less than a month ago after getting tired of using a quilting needle to pierce my eggs before hard boiling them.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
Egg slicers were very common in Australia in the 00s/90s (possibly before that too) because the egg slices were put in salads. My mum still has one, but I don't think she has used it for years.
Tucker Cahooter 1 month ago
My wife thinks I am weird for punching holes in my eggs before cooking them, so it is nice to know that I am not alone in doing this. But I just use a small skewer
#36
Freaking "Videoke" machines. Basically a karaoke machine with a tv built in. There's one in every tio's house.
#37
Technically it wasn't legal anywhere but "The Cornballer" was successfully marketed in Mexico.
GalPalAl 1 month ago
It's made by the Bluth company which is the same name as the family in Arrested Development. Coincidence?
What do you think ?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
I want the Bulgarian pepper roasting cylinder XD I was raised in a Mexican/Hispanic family and that would come in handy roasting poblanos and Anaheim peppers for a single person's meal (me!) XD
Sam Trudeau 4 weeks ago
In Canada we have milk bags. The story is that when the metric switch happened, they used bags a bit as well as jugs and cartons
M O'Connell 1 month ago
I submit the Presto Hot-Dogger. Heats your hotdogs through the direct application of mains current, and probably introduces some metal contamination from the electrodes.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
I want the Bulgarian pepper roasting cylinder XD I was raised in a Mexican/Hispanic family and that would come in handy roasting poblanos and Anaheim peppers for a single person's meal (me!) XD
Sam Trudeau 4 weeks ago
In Canada we have milk bags. The story is that when the metric switch happened, they used bags a bit as well as jugs and cartons
M O'Connell 1 month ago
I submit the Presto Hot-Dogger. Heats your hotdogs through the direct application of mains current, and probably introduces some metal contamination from the electrodes.
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