Sealing Plastic Bags

[GinBoy2]

Ok, I know this a frivolous, but hopefully entertaining post, God knows we need a few.

Have any of you perfected the Thai 'art' of sealing a plastic bag with rubber bands.? I was putting some food in bags this morning ready to go into the freezer. My usual pathetic sealing of the bags ensued. Wife came into kitchen, sighed, "Oh Please", then promptly proceeded to do the 'whizzing' action, and Voila, Watertight, Airtight, and Hermetically sealed plastic bags.

Sometimes I am in Awe

[Gsxrnz]

Nope, I can't do it. Missus doesn't understand why I put all my stuff in Tupperware containers instead of plastic bags.

By the same token, I can never get the <deleted> rubber band off the bags to open them. I just hack off the top with a pair of scissors, much to her disgust.

[GinBoy2]

Nope, I can't do it. Missus doesn't understand why I put all my stuff in Tupperware containers instead of plastic bags.

By the same token, I can never get the <deleted> rubber band off the bags to open them. I just hack off the top with a pair of scissors, much to her disgust.

Oh I know what you mean. I try, then eventually in a fit of rage take a pair of scissors to finish the job LOL

[weegee]

Nope, I can't do it. Missus doesn't understand why I put all my stuff in Tupperware containers instead of plastic bags.

By the same token, I can never get the <deleted> rubber band off the bags to open them. I just hack off the top with a pair of scissors, much to her disgust.

I just read your comment above.....told the wife, and laughter filled the room....She wants to know if you are Australian too?....

[canuckamuck]

I can do it, Once I saw that the band goes inside itself at the beginning and it is finished with a quick loop over the bent over top of the bag. Mai me ben ha!

The trick to opening is finding the loopover. Flip it back over and the bag should nearly open itself.

[weegee]

I can do it, Once I saw that the band goes inside itself at the beginning and it is finished with a quick loop over the bent over top of the bag. Mai me ben ha!

The trick to opening is finding the loopover. Flip it back over and the bag should nearly open itself.

Finding the loop over is my problem....hence the scissors are kept at the ready, to assist .

[Gsxrnz]

Nope, I can't do it. Missus doesn't understand why I put all my stuff in Tupperware containers instead of plastic bags.

By the same token, I can never get the <deleted> rubber band off the bags to open them. I just hack off the top with a pair of scissors, much to her disgust.

I just read your comment above.....told the wife, and laughter filled the room....She wants to know if you are Australian too?....

Close enough, I'm from the other side of the ditch. Glad she got a laugh, so I assume you have the same limited dexterity with the rubber bands as me!

Here's a classic - Missus brought some food home in a plastic bag (god knows what it was, some sort of soup and noodles, but it was a large bag) and asked me to pour it into a bowl. It used to be my habit to cut the bottom corner off the bag, which I did, and realised I hadn't gotten the bowl ready. I'd had a few JD's to be fair.

I balanced the bag against the microwave with the cut corner against it and went to get the bowl. Missus comes in, says "why you not put in the bowl", grabs the bag by the sealed rubber band end and sort of whips it away in a big circular movement.

The contents literally repainted the kitchen cupboards and floor. I heard a lot of new Thai words while she was cleaning it up.

And that's why now I cut the top off instead.

[NanLaew]

I can do it, Once I saw that the band goes inside itself at the beginning and it is finished with a quick loop over the bent over top of the bag. Mai me ben ha!

The trick to opening is finding the loopover. Flip it back over and the bag should nearly open itself.

We must have discovered a new measurement of ones 'Thainess' no?

[bazmlb]

I find it much better to use a heatsealer, you can squeeze most of the air out of the bag to prevent frostbite of the food, Makro has them for around 800 baht.

[weegee]

I find it much better to use a heatsealer, you can squeeze most of the air out of the bag to prevent frostbite of the food, Makro has them for around 800 baht.

ha ha ha....I would probably burn my bloody fingers

[weegee]

Nope, I can't do it. Missus doesn't understand why I put all my stuff in Tupperware containers instead of plastic bags.

By the same token, I can never get the <deleted> rubber band off the bags to open them. I just hack off the top with a pair of scissors, much to her disgust.

I just read your comment above.....told the wife, and laughter filled the room....She wants to know if you are Australian too?....

Close enough, I'm from the other side of the ditch. Glad she got a laugh, so I assume you have the same limited dexterity with the rubber bands as me!

Here's a classic - Missus brought some food home in a plastic bag (god knows what it was, some sort of soup and noodles, but it was a large bag) and asked me to pour it into a bowl. It used to be my habit to cut the bottom corner off the bag, which I did, and realised I hadn't gotten the bowl ready. I'd had a few JD's to be fair.

I balanced the bag against the microwave with the cut corner against it and went to get the bowl. Missus comes in, says "why you not put in the bowl", grabs the bag by the sealed rubber band end and sort of whips it away in a big circular movement.

The contents literally repainted the kitchen cupboards and floor. I heard a lot of new Thai words while she was cleaning it up.

And that's why now I cut the top off instead.

Are you sure you don't live in this house here too?????????....It's a bugger getting old hey?

[GinBoy2]

I can do it, Once I saw that the band goes inside itself at the beginning and it is finished with a quick loop over the bent over top of the bag. Mai me ben ha!

The trick to opening is finding the loopover. Flip it back over and the bag should nearly open itself.

We must have discovered a new measurement of ones 'Thainess' no?

If this is the case, I'm definitely flunking with straight F's

[yourauntbob]

I have mastered the rubber band trick as much as the Thai language.... I make it work, but people sometimes look confused and it isnt nearly as pretty

[David48]

Nope, I can't do it. Missus doesn't understand why I put all my stuff in Tupperware containers instead of plastic bags.

By the same token, I can never get the <deleted> rubber band off the bags to open them. I just hack off the top with a pair of scissors, much to her disgust.

If it's a sauce, and you're going to use all of it ... simply cut a small triangle off the bottom of the bag, squeeze ... and the sauce simple pours out.

I never thought to do it like that ... till I watched the Thais.

[mca]

It took me years of research before i discovered that all you have to do is pick at those infernal rubber bands around those little bags of fish sauce and eventually they just come undone

[tgeezer]

Here's a classic - Missus brought some food home in a plastic bag (god knows what it was, some sort of soup and noodles, but it was a large bag) and asked me to pour it into a bowl. It used to be my habit to cut the bottom corner off the bag, which I did, and realised I hadn't gotten the bowl ready. I'd had a few JD's to be fair.

I balanced the bag against the microwave with the cut corner against it and went to get the bowl. Missus comes in, says "why you not put in the bowl", grabs the bag by the sealed rubber band end and sort of whips it away in a big circular movement.

The contents literally repainted the kitchen cupboards and floor. I heard a lot of new Thai words while she was cleaning it up.

And that's why now I cut the top off instead.

Thanks for that, Brought me to tears, I pictured myself in the same situation, I don't think that wives take that sort of thing well !