now do you put water on your toothbrush before or after putting on the toothpaste? or neither?
Both. Like every member of the civilized world. All you only before or only after heathens can get off my lawn.
Does this mean you put the toothpaste on and then put it under the water and rinse it off? I cannot understand anything other than running the toothbrush under the water to clean it, putting on toothpaste, brushing your teeth, and then rinsing it off. Why would anyone rinse the toothpaste off the brush before you use it?
now do you put water on your toothbrush before or after putting on the toothpaste? or neither?
Both. Like every member of the civilized world. All you only before or only after heathens can get off my lawn.
Does this mean you put the toothpaste on and then put it under the water and rinse it off? I cannot understand anything other than running the toothbrush under the water to clean it, putting on toothpaste, brushing your teeth, and then rinsing it off. Why would anyone rinse the toothpaste off the brush before you use it?
You don't turn the water on full blast. It's just a light trickle to make the toothpaste damp before you start brushing.
@CretanBull Isn’t it supposedly that the bacteria goes into the air or something (god you can tell I didn’t do science past Year 9)? I always keep my toothbrush in the cabinet for that reason. I don’t want minute poop particles on my brush.
I've always believed the same. Actually I'm a bit paranoid of the poop particles. I close my lid before flushing and the toothbrush is definitely in the cabinet...with a cover for good measure.
And of course the toothbrush is wet before applying the paste. I'm not a barbarian
The thing is, there's fecal "bacteria" on literally everything because that bacterial lives other places as well. If it was actually a health risk, a whole lot of people would get sick from it, but basically no one does.
@asmallcat Look, I have quite enough germaphobic tendencies that have been running more rampant than usual due to Covid. Don’t tell me things like that or I’ll end up going full Howard Hughes.
poop particles in the air was always the first thing i thought about when people would brush their teeth at work. many moons ago when i went into an actual office.
Brushing your teeth in the shower. Gross or next level time saving technique?
Meh. I tried it for a bit. Felt like I was just wasting more water. Granted, I was enjoying the shower, but 2 minutes of brushing teeth while my shower pours water seemed wasteful. Also, I'm not good and multitasking when one of those tasks is brushing my teeth.
now do you put water on your toothbrush before or after putting on the toothpaste? or neither?
Before. I like my brush to be fully wetted. My toothpaste still sticks to the brush just fine. Having the brush wet and the paste dry feels like it helps with the abrasive procedure of scraping fine grit suspended in minty fluid across your pearly whites.
I have no idea if it's true or not, but when I was a teenager I read that when you flush your toilet germs can be spread 6 feet from the flush zone and I've never had a washroom large enough where my toothbrush was more than 6 feet away from my toilet so I've always washed/rinsed my toothbrush before putting the toothpaste on.
I read about this as a youth in a book called "The Almanac of the Gross, Disgusting, and Totally Repulsive" published in 1994. After reading your comment, I searched it out on Amazon. Turns out, had I kept this book I could pay for the HVAC repair I just had done with it!
I’m going to make a potato salad for tomorrow later today, and I’m currently watching a bunch of YouTube videos for ingredient ideas. It’s going to be a creamy one but with yoghurt rather than Mayo as I like a bit of tang. It will also definitely involve bacon. I’m thinking of tweaking this one a bit:
We got behind in our liquor advent calendar and thank God my parents took our daughter for tonight cuz its gonna get weird while we wrap presents and watch the new Expanse episode
Merry Christmas from the future! Lily came through with the goods - got me a Gregory Crewdson photography book, a new Microplane because I broke my old one a while ago, and some nice plant pots.
We are having low key lunch of chicken on sticks and a couple of salads with Eton mess for dessert, so I’ve got my chicken marinating in the fridge and the bacon I need for Caesar and potato salad in the oven and I’m having a coffee and a chill out. Hopefully should be a relaxing day.
Bit of light relief, I’m into having avocado on my homemade pizza at the moment. Avo on pizza - yay or nay?
hmm that's pretty weird. now do you bake the pizza then throw on the avocado on after, or do you bake the pizza with avocado on it? what other topping do you put on your pizza?
@chinaski Cut it into small chunks and bake the pizza with it on. My usual at home pizza fixins are tomato purée, red capsicum, mushroom, red onions, olives, asparagus if I have any, baby spinach and mozzarella. The avo is good under the melted cheese.
@Chinaski Wait, do you not have jaffles? It’s just a toasted sandwich made in an appliance that presses the edges together so it holds the filling in better. Like this:
I gave my jaffle maker to my daughter when she moved but then I regretted it so I bought another one. Best fillings: cheese (of course), baked beans or canned spaghetti with grated cheese, savoury mince.
When I was a kid, my mum had a cast iron one that was round and had super long handles and you held it directly over the flame on the stove. Got super excited when that bad boy got pulled out, let me tell you.
ohhhhhh.. then well i'll be damned! i own a 'jaffle maker' haha. a cuisinart sandwich grill that we've had forever that's in cabinet full of appliances we seldom use. when we did use it back in the day, salami and cheese filling was the go to.
edit: may need to blow the dust off that bad boy and have some 'jaffles' this weekend haha.
@Chinaski I don’t hold with mixing sweet and savoury so I don’t put anything sweet on bread, personally. I know a lot of people like that sort of thing though - apple and cinnamon, banana and Nutella, etc.
Vegemite only goes on toast in my house. I’m old school classic.
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Does this mean you put the toothpaste on and then put it under the water and rinse it off? I cannot understand anything other than running the toothbrush under the water to clean it, putting on toothpaste, brushing your teeth, and then rinsing it off. Why would anyone rinse the toothpaste off the brush before you use it?
And of course the toothbrush is wet before applying the paste. I'm not a barbarian
https://youtu.be/WYvQd6JChcY
If you have a fave potato salad or suggestions for ingredients to add to the salad or dressing, please weigh in.
We are having low key lunch of chicken on sticks and a couple of salads with Eton mess for dessert, so I’ve got my chicken marinating in the fridge and the bacon I need for Caesar and potato salad in the oven and I’m having a coffee and a chill out. Hopefully should be a relaxing day.
Kangaroo burgers, Emu on a stick, roasted drop bear, and Kwala-kabobs?
I gave my jaffle maker to my daughter when she moved but then I regretted it so I bought another one. Best fillings: cheese (of course), baked beans or canned spaghetti with grated cheese, savoury mince.
Vegemite only goes on toast in my house. I’m old school classic.