It’s taken months of research and some of America’s brightest minds to figure it out, but now it seems the end of tomato sauce frustration is nigh.
A new bottle coating developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) doctoral candidate Dave Smith, together with a team of mechanical engineers and nanotechnology researchers, has ketchup flowing like milk.
They have created the awesome-sounding LiquiGlide – a non-toxic slippery coating which can be sprayed onto glass and plastic surfaces. Its most useful application will be to food packaging, helping solve the age-old problem of how to get a knife into the bottom of the ketchup bottle.
Smith and his team say LiquiGlide could save 1 million tons of perfectly good but inaccessible condiments and other food annually. A service to humanity if ever we’ve heard of one.
Thanks, Beau
[Source: MSNBC]
