Last week, readerstold us their biggest life hacking fails, and some of them were truly spectacular.
So good, in fact, we just had to share them with you.
These stories have been edited for grammar and length.
Heres a pick of the immediate results:
I was pretty pleased.
I found some heavier-duty ones and havent had any problems since.
The one with the mess-cato, fromTJ:
Watched a video on how to Sodastream wine to make bubbly.
This… this was a mistake.
The one with the eggy avocado, fromMr.
P Is Mad Wack:
The GD baked avocado with the GD egg in it.
Bake and youll have a cooked egg inside a delicious Pinterest-worthy breakfast!
It turns out to be revolting.
Temperatures that cook egg make avocados disgusting and the egg doesnt really even cook.
Ive been gagging just writing this and thinking about it.
Commentermusicagrees:
The video was one of the most misleading things I can think of.
Andbury me at makeout creekoffers a warning:
I made it once.
The avocado turned bitter and the egg was this very odd consistency.
Looked and felt like those rubber fried eggs youd get in a lets play pretend cooking toy house.
Problem was, Soylent was on back order and wouldnt ship for a month.
I went the DIY route and bought all the ingredients off Amazon to make my own.
I tried hand mixing the ingredients which were all in metric and Im trying to convert them to US.
Then I switch to my $200 blender, which almost breaks due to the consistency.
I struggle to get it down.
The second gulp
has
to be better.
I have to fight my gag reflex.
I barely got through half the glass before pouring it out.
I even tried again in the morning with the same results.
Only this time the concrete was cold.
I spent $200 on Soylent ingredients only to be able to drink 4 oz.
So I go online and find tricks for otherwise opening wine bottles.
The one with thPOP!
The ensuing explosion left little blobs of white chocolate in places you cant even imagine!
We stayed the night.
I dont recall why, but we brought some laundry and my moms dryer wasnt working very well.
I didnt count on the elastic or decorative metal thread in the waistband.
In only a few seconds they were a molten scrunched pile starting to flame.
And if you forget about it in there, youll eventually start spiking your ice cubes unexpectedly.
Apparently this is a thing that is supposed to work.
I was skeptical, but he insisted.
All seemed to be going well until the flame got a little too high.
My wife-then-girlfriend was like hey, watch out for that flame…
I turned to her and said Dont worry, aluminum foil doesnt catch fire…right?
Well as I said that, SOMETHING caught fire.
Finally she yells FIRE!
This all happened in the course of about 20 seconds.
And thats the story of how I almost burned down my in-laws house on Easter.
Sadly, the bacon was half raw, half charred, and covered in baking soda.
