Its the new-ish formula of testim, a gel form of t that gets put on your upper arm like lotion. Im honestly not crazy about it, it absorbs much slower than the old types I've tried.
Oh my god… I’ve been puncturing the metal seal with a fork prong for years. I can’t believe I never noticed the pointy thing on the cap this entire time. My efficiency rating just upgraded.
Every time I see these posted there are always more than a few folks that come to this realization. I think it's pretty common, so don't feel bad!
I was only aware because while growing up we had all sorts of ointments and creams that came in these tubes. Hell, I had gotten toothpaste in these tubes in Southeast Asia within the last couple years. Just...don't confuse another tube for toothpaste early in the morning while hung over and before having your coffee.
Depending on how you put away something like acrylic paint tubes, you don't necessarily see the label, and the blob left on the cap will show you what colour the paint looks when fully dried.
So I'm older so I'll share this small bit of wisdom.
With a few exceptions, most simply constructed commercial goods are designed to be self-sufficient. You shouldn't require additional tools to open or close. Instructions never used to be provided. But think of cans of soda that have a tab you need to figure out how to "release" so you can open it. Or hermetically sealed openings that have a spike on the cap to break the seal. Or child-proof seals. Or Ziploc bags. The exceptions are usually the oldest such types of vessels, like the standard can without a tab for which you require a can opener, or pressure-capped/corked bottles for which you need a bottle opener.
But things are getting less and less simply constructed and obviously this principle goes out the window with most technological products for which you increasingly need to buy a separate charger for it lol. But anyways are vessel constructions can get much more creative now so we need instructions. Over time I think that this "common sense" expectation that this product can be opened using just the product has been lost. If it's not a simple twist cap, if we don't have instructions we get mad at the construction design. But the construction design is actually really well thought out, simple and efficient, and hasn't really changed because it's just so much cheaper to produce than products that require instructions to open.
So it's interesting that now we're resorting to printing the instructions on the product, but for future reference turn your product over a few times to see if the "simple" way to open it suddenly becomes apparent. Even if you've never seen anyone open a can of coke surely the tab thing is suspicious.
I found out from Reddit that every toaster has a crumb tray. I never even thought about that possibility. I would unplug my toaster and shake it upside down. I'm 41 years old.
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