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Useful when you accidentally overspice things; top coming off the pepper pot, a jolt on the side of the spoon when dusting.
It's a small vacuum cleaner with one modification - a small pipe that bends round the sucking end to send a small jet of air into the spice heap. Anything that is still dry will
then become airbourne and get hoovered up.
Coaxial Vacuum Cleaner
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Its big brother. [bigsleep, Jun 30 2009]
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Along with anything else that happens to be dry and floating in the air, like dust and flying insects, resulting in impurities tainting your spices, which might result in shortened shelf life and people complaining about flies in their soup. |
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or just pour the spice into the palm of your hand then dump. |
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[21 Q] - I don't see anything there that says the hooverized dust will get dumped back into the spice jar. |
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I thought it was implied, but I guess that *is* the main question here. Well, Bigs? Does it just collect the spice for easy disposal, or add it back to the jar? Now, I do think adding it back to the jar would be a good idea, as it would save money replacing that much wasted spice. But it would need some kind of sifter that separates the spice from any impurities. Could that be possible? Anyway, I'm giving it a bun because it's a good idea as stated, and could be a better idea with the mod I suggested. [+] |
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no to 21, yes to bigsleep. good one. |
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I imagine this would only be used in emergencies, so it wouldn't be productive to save the hoovered spices. [+] |
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A tiny vacuum cleaner for when you over-spice something, that's a good idea in itself [+].
But you have hit on another innovation that the other annos are yet to pick up on. The small air jet that makes the spice airbourne before being hoovered up. So it sucks as it blows as it sucks.
When vacuuming anything, the best results are obtained after some degree of agitation. In your case, an air jet, in the case of carpets it is usually some rotating brushes.
It is amazing how many fibres come out of a new carpet when those rotating brushes are used. Your air jet idea might have a wider range of uses than you intially thought. |
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<holds up crayon-drawing of cat in the back of the class> Oooh! I know! I know! Pick MEEE!</hucdocitbotc> |
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Thanks [skegger], although for this application it might not be a good idea re: blowing dry powder into a wet bit. I could certainly use a blower when using the pointy attachment on a full size hoover though. |
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For the case of a too-big heap of spices resting on the food (only circumstance the hoover will work), what hinders you using a spoon to get it off? |
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If you use a vacuum, you'll be able to get all of the spice which still dry. If you use a spoon, you'll either need to scoop up some of the food below the spice, or get less than all of the still dry spice. |
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If you dump the vacuumed spices into your hand, you can add some back to your food, if you vacuumed too much. If you spoon spices out of your food, and get some wet food, it can get very messy if you want to put some of the spices back in your food. |
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"Waiter, I see you have many spices on your menu" |
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"Yes, sir. Now what would you like?" |
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"A clean menu, or a tiny vacuum cleaner, please!" |
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