This is a real thing I do. It feels weird if the weight of the carton isn’t evenly balanced when I take it from the fridge.

  • adarza@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    it’s just sensible. if you take from one end, you run the risk of unexpectedly grabbing the ‘light end’ and accidentally dropping the partial carton on the floor next time you take it out of the fridge.

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      1 year ago

      Bam. Right here. It’s all about that weight distribution, simple as. First time I grabbed a carton by the light end, my stomach dropped. Not having that, no way.

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      1 year ago

      So always put the heavy (short, not long) end facing the door, so you always grab the heavy end, and never have this problem.

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      1 year ago

      My wife insists on true neutral and I can’t think of a worse way of doing it. I try to counterbalance with lawful good whenever I have eggs, bit I’m always playing catch up…

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Knowing Randall, I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually got his own DnD group, or conducted some sort of poll, where he actually asked people already in certain alignment categories to describe their own egg carton balancing patterns… or lack thereof.

        That would come closer to the actual alignments self representing…

        But also I have no idea, this is just my head canon now rofl.

    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      According to this I am chaotic neutral, not sure what that means? I aim to balance the weight evenly, when pulling out of the fridge, the carton stays level.

      • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I use Lawful Good for the same reason. Both keep the center of weight in the middle, but your method is more evenly distributed.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, this is a common sense thing. If you don’t balance the mass the next time you pull it out of the fridge there’s a good chance the imbalance causes the carton to twist or to bang it on something on the way out.

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        1 year ago

        If your carton can physically do that, then either your carton is paper and not carton, or your eggs have stones inside them.

    • CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Or you just put the heavy end facing the door of the refrigerator so you always are picking up the heavy end and not the empty end. It should be that way anyways if you’re putting the eggs in the fridge because you’d also want to be holding the stable end of the carton and not the empty side.

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          1 year ago

          Then you don’t have teenagers that are taking eggs from the carton to make scrambled eggs at 10pm. They happen to put the eggs back in correctly because they need the sturdy side to handle them. I don’t need to teach them fractal patterns to take eggs out.