it’s just sensible. if you take from one end, you run the risk of unexpectedly grabbing the ‘light end’ and accidentally dropping the partial carton on the floor next time you take it out of the fridge.
A completely useful compulsion I have.
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adarza@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
don@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Bam. Right here. It’s all about that weight distribution, simple as. First time I grabbed a carton by the light end, my stomach dropped. Not having that, no way.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So always put the heavy (short, not long) end facing the door, so you always grab the heavy end, and never have this problem.
Q_the_misanthrope@startrek.website 3 days ago
This is why I do it. It’s not necessarily symmetrical, just roughly even weight distribution to prevent a heavy side.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
You try to take the egg carton out of the fridge and it’s unbalanced ONE TIME…
4am@lemm.ee 3 days ago
The problem now is living with someone who doesn’t do this and then you expect it to be balanced because you take the time and effort to be precise as a show of appreciation for the others around you so they don’t befall the same fate that you now must suffer as you discover the eggs are now in unbalanced and they’d till all over the floor, because they didn’t happen to hyper focus these exact thoughts and how could they be so inconsiderate after you put in so much effort to focus on this to prevent this exact situation
Bro life is too exhausting wtf
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I also like to maintain balance in containers as well for just these reasons, but after years of living with people who didn’t share that preference, I learned to lift a container in place, then pull it out. That way I am cognizant of its balance before taking significant risk.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Eggs all over the floor! Especially if the carton is also not quite hooked shut, or slightly creased.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Huh… I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.
bejean@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I do this too for weight distribution, but I don’t make sure it’s symmetrical. I’m worried someone in my family will be surprised by the uneven weight of the carton when they pull it off the shelf and drop it.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I do this because the weight distribution is even so i dint drop the carton when grabbing out if the fridge again
CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Or you just put the heavy end facing the door of the refrigerator so you always are picking up the heavy end and not the empty end.
Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
But what if all the ends are stable and there is no empty side?
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I used to do it that way but other people in the house dont so I’ve switched to spreading it out
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
laranis@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Yeah, this is a common sense thing. If you don’t balance the mass the next time you pull it out of the fridge there’s a good chance the imbalance causes the carton to twist or to bang it on something on the way out.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
If your carton can physically do that, then either your carton is paper and not carton, or your eggs have stones inside them.
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m not autistic or OCD, and I do this too. It’s just common sense and mildly entertaining.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Is he Monk’s cousin?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 days ago
now kick your egg balancing autism into high gear to start balancing electrons on atoms to discover new elements.
or balance the number of molecules to create a new type of crystal that cures cancer.
or…you get the picture.
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
They clearly don’t get any other picture. No one balances eggs… EVER
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I balance eggs…
Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 day ago
There’s another way to egg?
Shamber@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Balance is everything, I don’t want the carton to flip on me cause the eggs are placed randomly
UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I do that all the time. The eggs MUST BE balanced.
RBWells@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I do also balance the carton. Not always absolute symmetry but don’t want someone to drop them.
pyre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
not autistic but I picked up a very unbalanced egg carton once and realized we shouldn’t have unbalanced egg cartons. it’s just sensible.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
sep@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is the way!
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
And if you are left with a prime number of eggs?
rooster_butt@lemm.ee 1 day ago
2 is a prime. I think you meant odd.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Of course, how could I forget about the oddest prime!
ShortFuse@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Always removed in two, there are. No more. No less.
bampop@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is why eggs should be sold in packs of 15
phantomwise@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
YOU’RE A GENIUS ! I take eggs out starting by one end and it always feels super weird to have an unbalanced carton, I’ll have to try your method.
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m positive there is a correlation between ocd and autism. This seems like it’s hinting at a more ocd thing. Still it’s not entirely irrational itself.
seeigel@feddit.org 2 days ago
How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?
pyre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
you take out another egg
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Start from the corners one at a time.
majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 2 days ago
T’was the tism m’lord
ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Ngl I’m too lazy to do this and just take eggs out from right to left. I always put the carton back in the fridge the same way so the weight is always on the end I grab.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Are you a lefty? (Left-handed, I assume you’re politically Left because you’re here)
ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Lol nah I’m right handed. But to get the geometry right, my fridge is on the right side of the kitchen, and the door hinge is on the right. So the eggs stay on the left side of the fridge closest to the rest of the kitchen counter tops. So the carton comes out and goes back in the same orientation using my right hand. Meaning I’m always grabbing the heavy side with the eggs.
I’m still careful anytime I’m grabbing the carton just in case, but so far no dropped eggs in the house
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I usually create checker patterns to keep a consistent weight balance and keep box strength strength against external force evenly spread.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
When it must be inbalanced due to the number of eggs, as long as the extra weight is towards the hinge then it retains the safety benefits of being balanced.
Since I get eggs while holding the carton I tend to take from the ‘outside’ row first, starting at the ends, and work my way into the center by the hinge. This puts the weight in the hand I’m using to hold the carton and works well even for 18 and 24 count cartons. If I set the carton down before yoinking eggs, I would go for more balance.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I first heard of this a couple years ago on a reddit post. It had never occurred to me to think that an egg carton should be balanced, or to expect an egg carton to be balanced when I pick it up.
I still don’t worry about the balance, but I get it.
I don’t even take them out of the same lateral side of the carton, just pick at random
ooxoxx ooooxx
InputZero@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’ll bring chaos into your house rumba!
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I have a teen and a tween, we are at max entropy already
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I kind of have both, just learn to enjoy the beauty of symmetry.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
So you always have to take a multiple of two eggs? Well it’s unarguably visually pleasing
Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
OMG, I do this too!
ModestCrab@lemmy.wtf 3 days ago
Huh, maybe I should give it a try……
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
When I eat grapes, I like to eat two at a time, and end with an even number. I throw away the last grape if it’s not an even number. Why? #JustAutieThings.
WhatSay@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I keep the eggs away from the corners, most likely to get damaged imo
MikeOxlong@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Relevant XKCD
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
According to this I am chaotic neutral, not sure what that means? I aim to balance the weight evenly, when pulling out of the fridge, the carton stays level.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I use Lawful Good for the same reason. Both keep the center of weight in the middle, but your method is more evenly distributed.
Rokin@lemm.ee 3 days ago
There is always a relevant xkcd.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Chaotic good here.
Yep, I’m an Autist.
… Also had a mom with pretty severe OCD, so I always remember that ‘good enough is good enough’, in scenarios like this.
AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Did your mom also have a neverending project of slowly removing the old layers of lead paint from the inside of the house by scraping it off a little at a time with a razor blade?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I disagree with most of those. Lawful neutral is evil for example, as it imbalances the carton away from the hinge.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Knowing Randall, I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually got his own DnD group, or conducted some sort of poll, where he actually asked people already in certain alignment categories to describe their own egg carton balancing patterns… or lack thereof.
That would come closer to the actual alignments self representing…
But also I have no idea, this is just my head canon now rofl.
Pilon23@feddit.dk 3 days ago
My wife insists on true neutral and I can’t think of a worse way of doing it. I try to counterbalance with lawful good whenever I have eggs, bit I’m always playing catch up…
amedd69@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Per this example I’m lawful good
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
TIL I’m true neutral. Always thought I was chaotic good.