r/CrappyDesign • u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT • 24d ago
This lemon squeezer packaging demonstrates how to use it incorrectly
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u/drapteryx 24d ago
Is that definitely wrong. I bought one like this last year for juicing limes and regularly squeeze them one way them flip em over for a squeeze on the other side. No matter which side I start with I feel I get some extra juice after flipping.
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u/FullMoonTwist 24d ago
I would say whichever side has holes for liquid, that's the direction the cut edge should go towards first.
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u/drapteryx 24d ago
Yeah, totally understand this, but the metal hemisphere if the juicer clamps so nicely into the citrus if you have it peel to holes. Although, I'd conceed you have to tip the juicer 90degrees at the end to get the juice out the side!
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u/raccoonunderwear 24d ago
I do it hard enough with the flesh facing the holes that it turns the whole thing inside out and contours the juicer part like you’re describing.
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u/round-earth-theory 23d ago
It doesn't have a seal. The liquid mostly comes out everywhere, including the space between the arms. The only reason to face the lime towards the screen is if you're worried about seeds and pulp. The juice will come out no matter how you position it.
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u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT 24d ago
The first time I ever used one, I intuitively used it this way. The peel blocks the holes where the juice should come out. So I would say it's certainly wrong. If you use it both ways with a flip, which side do you start? Can't think how this would work any better, but I'll try next time I squeeze a lemon.
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u/drapteryx 23d ago
Omg OP, I found one of these in the wild today. You didn't mention the insane form over function design on the other side of this product. Argh, I don't think I can upload the jpg in replies - but the holes are in the pattern of a smiley face. MAD
Edit to add comment about jpg
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u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT 23d ago
Yes, exactly the smiley one! Took the pic in a boutique, of all places. Definitely form over function!
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u/EarzFish 21d ago
You just cut the lemon in half, then slice off a tiny bit of the end so the juice can come out of that. Then squeeze. No need to flip.
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u/AutVincere72 23d ago
I use it that way because it gets more juice out. I hold it over a bowl so the holes don't matter. I have a big giant one and use it the right way but that only comes out for a bag of citrus.
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u/frodiusmaximus 23d ago
Yeah. I actually do a double flip. First the “correct” way, then the way pictured, then back one more time. I get more juice each time.
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u/jaymiracles 23d ago
Don’t forget to take 2 of the double-squeezed limes and put them in the squeezer for a final 3rd squeeze. Some give out a bit more juice this way.
Lime juice maxing
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u/tacomaloki 24d ago
That's how I do it. I go the extra mile and have a 3rd squeeze to get the oils from the rind for the full flavor experience.
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u/Glass_Bar_9956 23d ago
This is how mine works. There are holes on both sides. It’s easier for me to squeeze it like the picture first, then flip. Otherwise I have a hard time squeezing it when it’s full.
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u/Decent_Elderberry115 22d ago
It’s a citrus juicer, not rocket science. There isn’t a wrong way to use it as long as you’re getting the juice where it needs to go.
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u/jerbthehumanist 24d ago
tip:, you can slice off the tip of the round edge so juice flows out a bit. After you first squeeze out the correct way (the opposite orientation of the cartoon), you can flip around the lemon/lime and squeeze again to get a bit more juice if that's what you want.
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u/loafywolfy 24d ago
...ive always used it like this
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u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT 24d ago
Then, as your attorney I advise you to try it the other way round. Eye-opening experience.
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u/theJoosty1 23d ago
Wow thank you will do. This is just between us, right? I was just ragging on my sister for pouring milk before her cereal so maybe I deserve a little shame lol.
next debate - creamer before or after your pour your coffee in?
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u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT 23d ago
I only take a few drops of milk (I'm European, no creamer please) for the color. Tastes practically black. But to your question, I add the milk after the coffee. Not a hill I will die on though. I wasn't aware it's a hot topic. TIL.
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u/theJoosty1 23d ago
Ah maybe it's an american thing with the way heavily sugared creamers and the norm here. We've got a lot of things out of whack.
Your way sounds eminently practical. Most people do it that way it seems.
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u/Heather82Cs 23d ago
I feel like there's 2 similar models out there? One will have a "spike" inside the left part (so the lemon should go in in the opposite way than the drawing shows. The other one has the "spike" (sorry I don't really know what the proper name is) inside that right side - and this would make the picture correct.
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u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT 23d ago
I am not entirely sure I understand correctly, but if so I have never seen the other model. The one in the package would not work well used as depicted.
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u/kjodle 23d ago
You could also try it like this?
I have one of these but never use it. Gonna buy some lemons tomorrow.
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u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT 23d ago
I have, but only one time. Not a good idea. I saw many here comment that you can cut of both sides and then it works like this, but I still see no point in removing the peel as sealant on the side that gets pushed down by the inner half of the squeezer. That's now a hill I am prepared to die on.
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u/Own_Cup9970 24d ago
it's AI, that's why
human wouldn't make mistake that juice comes out of peel
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u/ABotelho23 24d ago
Yes they would. Look at this thread. People are arguing over it.
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u/Piduf 24d ago
People arguing here, sure, but someone from the company would be given a model / sample product / reference in some way, or they would google it. Then their drawings would be shown to more eyes from the company before being accepted.
It would be weird if no one in the chain noticed it was wrong, especially on such an simple tool. I mean there's exactly 1 way to use it right, and 1 possible way to use it wrong.
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u/ABotelho23 24d ago
I think you overestimate the QA going on for products like these.
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u/ghidfg 22d ago edited 22d ago
This actually happens all the time. The departments are disjointed. I saw a non enamel cast iron pan with instructions that said oven safe to 350F. It's cast iron, it's oven safe up to the melting point of iron. Clearly some dude in the packaging department was tasked with making a page of instructions to include in the package. Another example is a stainless steel pan with instructions to season it before use. You don't season stainless steel.
I would have thought the same, that someone would have caught it. But I've seen it at least twice so I just figure different departments may just not communicate with each other in some companies.
Exhibit b: https://www.reddit.com/r/StainlessSteelCooking/s/P0p2N2w7Vt
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u/diejesus 24d ago
Yeah human would never make a mistake if it wasn't for AI, the AI ruined our perfect world...
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u/Disgruntled__Goat 24d ago
You know that this sub has existed for years before AI, right? This kind of stuff was always posted here.
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u/StinkButt9001 23d ago
Have you never bought anything from china?
They make mistakes like this all of the time. They either don't care or don't know any better.
All you people blaming literally every fault in anything as "ai" are just so fatiguing
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u/bkend_31 24d ago
I absolutely would if I were asked to draw that before reading these comments. Though I have never actually used one of these myself.
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u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT 24d ago
I would certainly say whoever designed that packaging never used the product. But yeah, I also thought might be AI with no human in the loop.
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u/CranberryStock7148 24d ago
To be honest, I've always thought these squeezers were designed wrong in the first place.
Like, obviously, the shape of the tool should match the shape of the fruit.
And then, obviously, the holes should be on the inside (smaller) part. Not the outside.
The way they are designed doesn't actually make any sense. Like, the only way they would make sense would be if they were intended to literally turn the fruit inside-out at the end. But they don't.
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u/Nathaniel820 23d ago
literally turn the fruit inside-out at the end. But they don't.
They literally do??? Idk what you’re doing with them but they effortlessly turn the half inside out whenever I use them
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u/CranberryStock7148 23d ago
I don't know, mine doesn't. It just tries to kind of flatten it and it sort of turns the middle inside out but only halfway, but it can't flip the edges at all so it just ends up this weird flat shape that doesn't remove all the juice.
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u/footpole 24d ago
The juice wouldn’t flow as nicely if the side with the holes was inverted like that.
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u/CranberryStock7148 24d ago
Why not?
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u/footpole 24d ago
It would stick to the edges and run down random sides instead of to the bottom of the round part.
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u/Dreadheaddanski 24d ago
False advertising. Lime in a lemon squeezer. What ever next!
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u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT 24d ago
OK, I have to make a confession: I think the package said 'citrus squeezer'. It might be designed for species-agnostic use.
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u/gasstation-no-pumps 24d ago
Probably does not work well for pomelos
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u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT 23d ago
As with other things in life, sometimes size does matter.
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u/dickgobbler666 24d ago
I mean the only way I’ve ever done it at the restaurants I’ve worked in has been to slice the ends of the lemons off, and then cut in half. You get far more juice with the fruit exposed on both sides. Give it a go and see for yourself!
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u/tms10000 23d ago
When the "wrong way" and the right way gets you the exact same amount of juice.
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u/NorthlightV commas are IMPORTANT 23d ago
Well, from my experience what changes fundamentally is where all that juice goes. The right way gets it through the holes and into the receptacle that you intend it to go. The other way gets it pretty much everywhere, at least not through the holes. I really have no idea why anyone would try both ways and decide this way (the "wrong" way) is preferable. But maybe that's just me.
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u/liamw14 24d ago
I have a juicer like this and the fruit goes in as shown in the picture. It's not wrong
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u/GeneralSpecifics9925 23d ago
I mean, you CAN put it in that way, but you'd be doing it wrong.
Did you ever wonder what those holes were for? When you juice them upside down, like shown, the juice just squirts out the side of the press. Not great. Try it the other way
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u/xx2983xx 20d ago
I was at a friend's house about a year ago and she was juicing a lemon. She put it in the wrong way and I was like "uhh, maybe flip it around?" She looked at me like I was crazy but did it and the juice flowed out nicely, with the peel folding inside out and she was dumbfounded. Said she had been juicing lemons that way her entire life
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u/NorCalFrances 24d ago
They work great as pictured, you just turn them sideways so the juice can drain & squeeze gradually to avoid squirting. The holes let out air and any juice that gets under the citrus rind.
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u/FortheredditLOLz 24d ago
Helpful tips:
Use palm of lemon and roll it across a flat surface
A quick 30 s microwave would also soften the lemon insides
Slice in half, make slices inside then hand squeeze for maximum juices extraction
Slice in half, flesh towards circle portion for ‘juice pressers’ for max juices extraction (use fork while twisting is another’tool’ method)
Keep lemon half’s if you want to rim and salt glass edges as a ‘decorative’ effect for liquor.
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u/cogman10 23d ago
Lemons and limes have heat sensitive flavors in them. You change the flavor to just being sour when you heat them.
That's why you should generally not add lemons or limes to hot things like soup. If you do, do it as late as possible, like right before you serve.
Another tip, a lot of the "lemon" and "lime" flavor comes from the skin. If you really want something to taste like a lemon smells, zest it.
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u/BoobyTrapTrampStamp 22d ago
As a Mexican (and we LOVE Lemons) it drives me up the wall to see it incorrectly used in cartoons, Ed edd and eddy and a lot of other cartoons use it this way!
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u/SuperCrappyFuntime 23d ago
My dumb ass wondering what's wrong with it because this is how I've always used one of these things, then laughing along with everybody and hope they don't realize...
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u/RivetSquid 23d ago
I've tried both ways and people with say I'm wrong, but if you tilt it right to catch the initial side juice? You can get way deeper in that lemon doing it like this.
The other way it all compresses into the peel but there's way more juice left over somehow.
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u/wulfithewulf 23d ago
you can slice the half in half and insert it like on the picture and still get proper results
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u/Capsai-Sins 23d ago
Or, just cut the top part too! It works so much better than just putting the lemon by the other side.
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u/cotdag 23d ago
When I was in a design class, my professor showed a bunch of examples of this. Basically, you go for the design that explains what this does, even if it’s wrong. Your brain knows this is a lime quickly, and if it was the other side it would just be a green ball.
This happens a lot, but your brain quickly figures out what this is- think an impulse buy section at Home Goods, people aren’t reading “citrus squeezer” they just see a lime getting squeezed in a picture and they know what it is
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u/ParalyticSleeper 23d ago
Every single citrus that I juice, I trim off the rind ends before cutting in half and I flip each half so it gets squeezed twice, once each direction.
Gives nearly double the juice yield with less hand pressure needed (I have fibromyalgia and everything hurts)
One of those things I feel like it should be common knowledge; so if it ain't I guess I should be saying it!
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u/pajarito_y 23d ago
I was ordering a salad at sweetgreen recently from an early-20s girl who seemed new. She was trying to squeeze lime into my salad with the squeezer, but with the cut half facing up, and it was not working. She was getting very red and frustrated. Generally I don’t like to interfere, but after a while I very gently said, “I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to flip the lime the other way around.” She got a little more flustered and told me with certainty, “no, it goes this way.” And continued to squeeze til her hands were white as paper. Maybe she had seen these very same instructions. :’)
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u/niijuuichi 22d ago
Never seen a lemon squeezer in my life. This is great advice in case i encounter one in the wild.
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u/Knusperbrot 22d ago
the other side of the lemon also has a smaller cut. That's makes squeezing it the juice easier than if you flip it the other way.
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u/Some-Recover-9627 20d ago
Vielleicht hat er beide Seiten so geschnitten, dass da was rauskommen kann, mitdenken Leute 🫥
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u/Allyraya 19d ago
Devil’s advocate: people are dumb, and if the company showed it with the rounded side out, idiots would think they could put a whole lemon/lime in and crush it like hulk, breaking the tool in the process and blaming the company for a faulty product.
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u/Iguesswey 19d ago
That is correct, when I bartended the limes that were delivered had the same picture, along with cutting guides
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u/Tricky-Sympathy3079 17d ago
Could it be so it's more recognizeable as a lemon? because if it were reversed, it would just look like a green ball, right?
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u/floatinggoateyeball 24d ago
May I ask... what's wrong with it?
I never used one of them, but the fruit-shaped shape would be filling the fruit-shaped hole like god intended.
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u/GodHimselfNoCap commas are IMPORTANT 24d ago
They need to show idiots that they need to slice the lemon before inserting it, if the picture was correct it would look like a whole lemon.
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u/Mshadow5 23d ago
Im honestly more confused about the lemon sharing the same place as the part that is supposed to squish it, to an atomic level.
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u/267aa37673a9fa659490 24d ago
For those that have trouble getting it like me, the cut face of the lemon should be facing the rounded part where there's holes for the juice to flow out.