What are some proven (i.e. backed by documented empirical evidence)
practical (e.g. cleaning?) unconventional (i.e. besides drinking) uses
for Coca-Cola (a.k.a. Coke) either as concentrated syrup or combined
with soda water? *Comments* about fun (legal) uses are also welcome
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Hello btn-ga,
By “empirical evidence” (i.e. evidence deriving only from experience,
not from theory), I took it you meant documented statements of people
saying “I use Coca Cola for …. “
There are certainly numerous urban legends out there about highway
patrols using Coke to clean blood off cars, how Coke can dissolve a
nail in two days, etc. These tend to be mixed with more plausible
hints for cleaning with Coke. There is a discussion on which of the
allegations are true and which are false at TruthorFiction.com:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/watervscoke.htm
I think that the best documented uses are in cooking since you
actually get proper recipes, even some endorsed by the Coca Cola
company at http://www2.coca-cola.com/ourcompany/recipes.html
Recipes on the site include:
Banana Cake, Barbequed Ham, Casserole BBQ, Chicken, Chinese Pepper
Steak, Coca Cola Ham, Family Pot Roast, French Onion Soup, Matchless
Meat Loaf, Southern Belle Salad, Steak Fried Onions, Sweet and Sour
Cabbage, Barbeque Sauce, Chocolate Cola Cake, Coconnut Shake,Cola
Cake, Cuba Libre Chiffon Pie, Date Nut Bread, Easy Low Fat Cake and
Gingerbread Deluxe
The book How to Eat (2000) by Nigella Lawson also includes a recipe
for Ham in Coca Cola
www.stylenetwork.com/Shows/Nigella/ Recipes/hamincoke.html
Or you might prefer Minestrone Soup Coca Cola:
http://www.recipesource.com/soups/soups/06/rec0644.html
There are lots of others to be found if you search Google for Coca
Cola + recipes
Coca Cola is also mentioned in a serious support forum. A member of
the PST Tech Support Discussion Forum messaged “We use Coke in the
shop to remove the residue from spilled battery acid inside the
timers. We only use Coke, not diet, not other colas. They just don't
seem to work as well.”
http://cgi.abacom.com/cgi-bin/psttech/forum/forum?read=275
In reply, another participant messaged: “have a Canon Speedlite 177A
flash unit which contained a couple of batteries that had corroded and
oozed into the battery compartment. I found his message and decided to
try using Coke to clean it. Coke did a very good job of cleaning up
the mess in the compartment and on the contacts and getting the
Speedlite usable again.”
http://cgi.abacom.com/cgi-bin/psttech/forum/forum?read=566
Household hints by Susan Doyle at
http://www.kitchenproject.com/susan/Coca_Cola_for_cleaning_stains.htm
also mentions Coke used as a toilet cleaner, and adds that it can be
used for removing grass and grease stains from clothes: “use your
regular cleaning items, detergent, color safe chlorine bleach, etc.,
in hot water and
ADD ONE 12 OZ. CAN OF COLA to the wash water. Continue on as usual.
Another use for cola, take the greasy film off the windshield. Wet
cloth with cola and wash the window, rinse and dry.”
From http://www.wackyuses.com/author.html
“Joey Green has been called "a modern-day Heloise" by the New York
Times and the "Pantry Professor" by People magazine… … has been seen
polishing furniture with SPAM on CNN Headline News and cleaning a
toilet with Coca-Cola in The New York Times.”
Other uses he lists at: http://www.wackyuses.com/coke.html
Remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers.
Clean corrosion from car battery terminals.
Loosen a rusted bolt.
Bake a moist ham.
Remove grease from clothes.
Uses listed by visitors to his site:
"My son-in-law, who is in the Army, says he uses Baby Wipes to clean
the camouflage off his face while they are out in the field and good
old Coca Cola to clean the carbon off his weapons."
"the cat got on the countertop in the kitchen and knocked over my
Mom's jar of bacon grease onto the linoleum floor… … Mom tried every
kind of soap and detergent to get rid of the stain, but none worked.
Years later, during my brother's birthday party, someone spilled a
Coca Cola on the floor, right over the stain, and it got left there
until the party was over. When that mess got mopped up, the ugly
grease stain had disappeared!"
"Years ago, we were doing a television special from the Ed Sullivan
Theatre in New York City…. …they had polished the stage and the girls
kept slipping. We bought a case of Coke and poured it on the stage
which made it sticky enough to proceed."
Joey has published a series of books on strange uses of common
household products. These are listed at
http://www.wackyuses.com/books.html and are all available on
Amazon.com
Titles include:
Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz
Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose
Paint Your House with Powdered Milk
Wash Your Hair with Whipped Cream
Joey Green's Encyclopedia of Brand-Name Products
To add to the list of cleaning uses, my schoolfriend’s brother used it
to clean his coin collection.
I didn’t find any uses listed for the syrup.
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