New non-stick coating keeps sauce flowing
Scientists at MIT have developed a new coating for sauce bottles that means every last drop comes out - and that mean less waste.
Compare the video above, where the bottle is coated with LiquiGlide, with the one below.
Pretty impressive stuff. MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith and a team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists developed it. Speaking to the website Co.Exist, Smith said: "it's kind of a structured liquid - it’s rigid like a solid, but it’s lubricated like a liquid".
Safe
The team had to make sure that LiquiGlide was safe for human consumption, so they used only substances that were approved by the Federal Drug Administration, the body charged with food safety in the USA. "We had a limited amount of materials to pick from," Smith told Co.Exist "I can’t say what they are, but we’ve patented the hell out of it."
Bye bye waste and waiting
One thing's for sure, the Heinz ad from the 80s featuring Matt Le Blanc and the strap line 'good things come to those who wait' looks like it's been well and truly consigned to the history books.
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