A washandje is good for only having to soap up once. The soap sticks to the cloth so you use less soap. And it scrubs a bit which is nice. Back in the old days you didn’t shower every day, you just washed with one of these at the sink
Of course, we are Dutch, don't have the WASHAND now anymore but Yes my Grandparents and my Mother did, so you use less soap...Soap sticks into the material...Thats the way it is...
@@EricvanDorp007 I myself still use one (i'm 37) and also my children (12 and 11) use it. We also still use soapbars instead of washgel. It scrubs your body way better then just using the bar directly on your skin.
Just about getting everything you've paid for for me. Like we're stereotyped as stingy. But all we really do is try to find the best price for what we're looking for, and get everything we can out of what we paid for. Indeed, why throw those last 2 spoonfuls tricking to the sides away? That's still 2 spoonfuls of yogurt or whatever you paid for and can enjoy.
Not that the washandje isn't good for showering, it's efficient there, but I suspect it was invented for when people washed themselves at the sink more often (until the sixties lots of cities had bath houses because many homes didn't have a shower or bath or it was removed because of the space needed). When it's hot in the summer and I simply can't keep showering I often do a quick armpit wash, and that certainly works better with a washandje than just your hand.
Yes your right ..But it also make you can do longer with the soap you use..And thats a good thing for the environment. If you wash with your hands its takes a lot of soap .. And again it makes normal stuf cheaper ..so you can save more for the nice things in live .. its a win win win ..
You are right. Both my parent grew up in houses without showers. I am in my 50’s and although we had a shower in the house, we often washed ourselved at the sink with a washandje.
@@ConnieIsMijnNaam Yes, often they were build with a bathroom, but the space was needed. Basically with a washandje you can wash yourself with water without getting the floor wet, try that without. I think the washandje is still very popular with people who have to wash another for whatever reason.
To be fair, its also efficient to use in a shower. If you put soap on your hands the water will wash it away but if you put soap on a washand it stays in there longer. Not to mention that the patterns on a washand also clean you better and faster than just your hand. I mostly use them for cleaning tables and shit tho.
I didn't realize a "washandje" was a typical Dutch thing Also about the bottle licker, it was brought on the market in the 1950s. Only a few short years after the dutch famine at the end of world War 2. People no doubt still greatly valued to have food at all so they didn't want to waste a single drop.
Yes, the bottle-licker was actually designed to fit perfectly in the glass bottles we used back then. Those bottles were used for yoghurt and “vla” (a kind of pudding but less solid) that were - and still are - staples in the Dutch kitchen. The bottles were closed with a thin aluminum lid. We had to save those lids for recycling because the proceeds of those lids were used for charities.
Dat wist ik eerlijk gezegd ook niet, een washandje om je gezicht te wassen en daarna je oksels. Hoe doen zij dat dan?.met je handen...kan maar haalt weinig uit. En een handdoek gebruiken is raar,dan kan je beter een washandje hebben toch. En nu ik er overna denkt heb ik met engelse les op school wel het woord towel geleerd, en ons washandje kwam niet te sprake. Apart.
IT is pretty normal tot use a washandje in Holland under the shower solo or together with soap or showergel. You can see it like a exfoliation. You remove better the dirt of your skin. Also the unseen 😂. After that trow it in the wasmachine 👍☺️
The appelboor reaction was hilarious! I use that thing a lot. And the flessenlikker comes in handy to empty cartons with yoghurt, deserts and sauce bottles. It’s in my kitchen drawer. Even the washandje is still used for cleaning babies, children and grown ups also 😂😂.
There are also different versions of them, that cut it into parts instantly and are two handed, kind of standard issue for elderly people with memory issues, because the huge green thing that will not fit in any drawer will trigger them to eat fruit
So funny that we Dutch are so used to having a 'washand' that we often don't realize anymore it's actually very Dutch. As a kid I used to put a piece of soap in it and wash myself. Works perfectly, lol. I find it works better than a wash cloth though. You don't wash your hands with it, you put your hand in there and wash you whole body with it.
I use a "washandje" twice a day. Definitely to wash my face. Put the cleansing milk on my fash and whit a wet washandje remove the cleamsing milk and make up.. In the shower you put your showergel on it and at the same time you exfoliate your skin (lightly) and you save a lot of showergel too..
Really laughed about the ( flessenlikker) bottle licker, actually it's from the era 1950, when " vla" (thick custard) was delivered in glass bottles, this stuff was to solid to get it out of the bottles , ah yes memories :)
You yelling at your screen like we yelling at ours, to you, love it XD I love how you are ABSOLUTELY convinced that the "Washandje" is a potholder and all talking about how in can't be a wash cloth cus of the pocket while it actually is a wash cloth XD
the flessenlikker is not really used for carton, carton packaged have folding instructions and special weak points to fold it. in the old days every diary was in glass bottles there you used it for. it also works in plastic containers.
@6:58 It's not to wash your hands only. I've a bunch of 'washandjes' as well. It's a very useful object when only a solid piece of soap is used to wash your body. When both of them are made wet, the material of a "washandje" easily picks up a thin layer of the soap, which then can be used like shower gel on a sponges. And about the "flessenlikker" (bottle licker)... When I moved out, this item was one of the first things I've added to my kitchen inventory. 🙈 Especially when you're finishing a carton of yoghurt, a lot of the yoghurt keeps sticking to the sides. With the "flessenlikker" it's easy to scrape everything out of the carton. 💪🏼😎
potholder is in the netherlands pannelap ....funny I thought everyone knows the washcloth,but turns out to be something Dutch, these day's it is no longer used by everyone, but the elderly certainly use it in the morning to wash at the sink and for babies it is still often used
Ah Highly... Even you still underestimate the Dutch frugality, to us it is not a derogatory term, It's a badge of honour... but yes Loved the look on your face when that sunk in...
I remember in the old days, milk pudding, yogurt and custard were in liter bottles with about a 3.5 cm opening, when you empty it there was still quite a lot of custard hanging on the glass about 1 cm thick the yogurt used to be creamier and thicker full-fat milk products so you could remove almost a whole doce with a bottle licker and families often had many kids in the past, those bottles were also picked up by the milkman rinsed clean and there was almost no plastic in the past you had small separate shops, baker, greengrocer, butcher, milkman, etc. and reminded as a child that the peel farmer drove the tractor or horse with cart daily through the street to pick up potato peelings stale bread and leftover vegetables for cattle feed what people threw on the cart while he slowly passed the streets
A potholder is made out of insulating material. A washandje is a washcloth made out of the same material as a bath towel. The original purpose was to put a piece of soap in it while you are in the shower so it doesn't slip out of your hands. The extra benefit these days is that you can put showergell on it a bit at a time, so you don't spoil a lot of it.
I use a washandje everyday, a appelboor is never used. I eat apples with core and everything.. I never use a jointroler, I have my hands and fingers to do that. And a flesselikker or Pottelikker as we say in the area I live I still use to this day.... Thanks for this video!!!!!
@@Linda-hs1lk Thank you for your concern,I truely appriciate it😊.yes, I know that they contain prussic acid which can become cyanide when in contact with water.( Saliva contains water.) However,research and multiple studies state very clearly that the amount of cyanide is só extremely small that the liver has no problem what so ever with filtering this out. Unlike the amounts of prussic acid in bitter almonds and apricot kernels. People who smoke have a high dose of cyanide in their urine. I don't smoke and never eat these almonds or kernels and I really don't eat apples very often so I'm not very concerned about it😉.
"it's a potholder" 🤣Certainly my favorite video so far haha I never called the Flessenlicker (Bottle licker) that way. I always called it a Pottenlikker (Pots licker).
Washandjes are so useful when washing yourself in the shower or bath. Much easier than a washing towel. These are a bit big, the smaller ones are easier in use. The Flessenlikker is very useful to get everything out of a bottle or carton.
This "washandje" was very custom in the old days when you had to wash yourself in a small tub or out of a bowl. There was no water grid yet and hot water was sold at your door. So, no filling up the bathtub with plenty of warm water. With a washandje you can wash yourself with the little water you have. Other option was the local 'bath house'.
YEP. I still use washandjes. But I don't use one, I use several. It feels nice, it holds and spreads the soap nicely too. And of course if you really do only have one, you start on your face and work your way to the other area's last. Duh. You rinse the clothe, squeeze it dry-ish, and in the laundry it goes with the towels. Oh, and a washandje is way thinner than a potholder. And softer too.
Same here. I have a stack of like 8 of them at home. I throw them in the washing machine after using, so I want multiple. :P Same for picking areas. You start with the face and work your way down, leaving private areas for last. More countries should try it imo. It scrubs not just rinses, you use less soap, and it works WAY better than just hands to remove dirt and dead skin cells.
The flessenlikker was used to get the last bit from the bottle in the days yogurt, custard (vla) and chocolat custard was still sold in bottels. It would take you forever when you put them upside down and there was at least one portion left on the inside. In the days families had 4 to 6 children and people didnt have much money, nothing was wasted. Nowadays its al in carton packages. You can fold those to squeeze out the last portion. Its not really frugal, its about not wasting.
Washandje: in the old days, people had no shower or big bathtubs and washed themselves at the kitchen sink. A washcloth (the 'washandje') makes sure that you don't mess up the place by splashing water all around (you go and try washing your body at a sink, without some washcloth). You would soak the cloth with water, put soap on only one side, squeeze out excess water (over the sink, I might add) and start rubbing the body parts that need cleaning with the soapy side. Then, with a quick twist of the wrist, you turn the cloth on your hand to get the soap free side in front and wipe the soap of the soapy body parts, rinse the cloth under the faucet and repeat the whole process until done. So, there's the two-sided washcloth, brought to you by NL...you're welcome!
you made me laugh so hard I could hardly breathe . and especially with the bottle licker 🤣🤣 thanks for the video . Sincerely Hollandduck from the Netherlands
Like your cat! A washcloth is nice to scrub and not having to put soap on your hands every-time during a shower. Appelboor is handy when making apple pie. The joint roller, I didn't know either. I used to smoke tobacco and hand-rolled my own cigarettes. Stopped smoking about 10 years ago, but sometimes I still roll for elderly who cannot do it themselves anymore. We used to have a flessenlikker at home, I do not own one myself.
It's not just a washcloth, but essentially a 'washglove'. This tool is used in a wet state to wash your face, and after that you scrub soap onto it to wash your body. The idea is also that this way you're sparing the amount of soap and water you'd use otherwise. The 'potholder' that you're referring to looks a little different. And then we also have what we would literally refer to as 'oven gloves'.
Another nice 'recipe' for the apple core remover is using it on a (big) potato then fill it with herb butter cut of the ends of the core you removed to plug the 2 holes. And then wrap it in aluminium foil and pof the potato (roast I guess in English?) The melted herb butter get absorbed by the potato from the inside and its alot more delicious then just roasting the potato and put herb butter on it afterwards.
A washandje was very popular when showers were still uncommon and it sort of stayed. Its used in showers to create more some or in the morning and evenings that you dont shower to clean your private area’s with as little use of water and just do it quickly and efficiently.
26:26 Yes, we are saving that much money. You'd be surprised how much still comes out of bottles, pots, cans. I recommend you get one alongside your applecorerer.
Heb het ook nog nooit gezien of van gehoord. Zover ik weet rolt iedereen gewoon met de hand. Dat is sneller, minder rommelig en neemt geen ruimte in. Mits je goed kan rollen natuurlijk, maar dat kennen de meeste wel. Anders vragen ze het wel aan een ander of kopen voorgedraaide.
Washandje is used for washing yourself with soap. The effect of the cloth around your hand is scrubbing your skin lightly. We love to use them because if you use it your skin gets cleaner the. Without it. Because of the ligt scrubbing effect. If you push harder your will scrub better. It feels wonderful 😊
The thing with a 'bathroom' is that the Dutch would probably define that room in the house specifically as the room with a bathtub and/or shower included. There's not a toilet in every bathroom. So, when the Dutch would go to use the toilet, they'd say "I have to go to the toilet" instead of "Ihave to go to the bathroom." In fact, in many of the more old-fashioned houses the 'toilet' and the 'bathroom' are two separate rooms. Nowadays houses often have two toilets; one in the 'toiletroom' downstairs and one in the bathroom upstairs. In cases like these the Dutch are quite specific at what they mean by certain rooms. Another example is the Dutch living room. Most smaller Dutch houses have a living room that is kinda divided in two parts. One part is often literally called the 'eating corner' and the other is literally called the 'sitting corner' (they're not really corners, but I think you'd get the picture. They're equivalent to the separate dining room and lounge/living room respectively, but in the case of these houses together they are often part of the same room, which we would call 'living room'. I don't know how common these 'hybrid rooms are in the US, but they are common in the Netherlands.
😂 At 3:06 That is what a 180 crash and bump looks like... and 5:20 again... And in the end still not really believing... @07:48 Edit: No P. , ditch your thoughts. It's not for washing your hands, you moist the thing, rub soap on it and then use it to soap, to wash your body.😁🤣 2nd one, the apple-corer, straight away! 👌 3rd, joint-roller, almost straight away, but unsure straying afterwards...👌 4th, the bottle-scraper, You got it at 24:40 👌 (this dates from the time 'vla' and yoghurt (this was real yoghurt and quite thick), were sold in glass bottles capped with thin aluminium on a opening of approximate 3-4 cm..(or 2,5 inch....) - That's 3 out of 4! Really good!
The thing with the wash glove ( washandje) , that really made me laugh my ass off. Its to wash yourself. The cloth can absorb much more soap than a hand ever can and thats why.
Hahaha de flessenlikker is sooooo old, it's from the 1950-1960s from a time we Dutch had just enough money to make it to the end of the month. My Grandparents had this and my mother also.. Don't see them much these days, but the shops HEMA and BLOKKER will have this 100%
Back in the day the milk man came door to door every week, selling glass bottles. Milk products were luxury products back then so expensive and glass bottles had to be re used. so a tool like that helped use every last bit that was in the bottle in stead of wassing it it out with half the product still in them (not milk, but thick stuff like yoghurt and such) ... it also kept your pantry clean. no unwanted culture growth.
The washandje has a scrubbing effect, which your hands defenitly dont have. We do have something similar to use for taking stuff out of the oven, just thicker and handshaped.
omg this is so funny. of all items I only use the washcloth. Lots of soap on the washcloth and then you have a lot of foam in the shower. that's really great what a sweet cat. I like cats. I have 3 myself
I use a washandje to clean my face at the sink in the morning, I don't use it in the shower though. We have potholders as well, but you can't usually put your hand in those :P The flessenlikker is used a lot at my house primarily for bottles with a small opening because there is usually like a quarter left in the bottle that just doesn't want to come out and you can't get with a spoon. We ain't wasting food XD
Dude at 23:57 when you said frugal, you sounded like my echo. I said the exact thing, with the same tone, just a second earlier. I knew exactly what it was, but didn't know what it's called. Pottenlikker, flessenlikker and pakkenlikker, i used it for everything. And i seriously wonder what people use to wash themselves. A washand, basically a washcloth, is perfect. Its designed to fit your hand, holds soap well and it scrapes the skin very nicely. And since they are small you can fit an infinite amount of them in your laundry.
I’m Dutch but I never saw a joint roller. I think there is a similar device for shag, but I have never seen one. I don’t smoke and I never have, nor did I ever smoke a joint.
When there weren't showers yet, people used the washing cloth to wash yourself at the sink. My parents still use washing clothes when they dont want to shower. You wash your whole body with it. It's also handy for cleaning kids faces when they've played outside or for just washing your private parts. I dont ever use one anymore, just because I love to shower 😊
To be fair, this scraper was used when ' ye olde ' milkman delivered everything in bottles. And these bottles had to be rinsed and returned. We aren't so cheap that we use it on cartons.
1. I never use a washandje in the shower. I only use it to wash my face in the morning. 2. I don't eat apples, because I'm allergic to it, but I know what it is. 3. Although I don't smoke, I have seen one of these at least one time in my life. 4. In my family we still use this to get everything out of a pack of custard or yoghurt or a pot of apple sauce.
the old school bottles of ketchup I bet if you clean 10 with them you have a new bottle. I have it with my vape liquid I cut them open and get the last drops out :P 10 empty bottles almost a full one. I am very dutch when it comes to waste like that :)
@@thesillypig785 taking the cap of does not do it for me. I just cut them open halfway down the bottle and get the liquid out that way. you can squeeze it in a nice shape to drain it. and I get the last bit that never wants to come out by touching the contained I am putting it in. I am just that dutch.
I cant shower correctly without a washandje! It really helps with scrubbing, my hands are too smooth for that hahaha! and it keeps the soap usable longer too
I have never ever seen someone use a joint roller in a coffeeshop. Being able to roll a splendid joint by hand is a rite of passage. 😂 Have seen those about 20 years ago when some family still smoked cigarettes but didn't even recognize it anymore.
I don't have a washandje, I snitched one from a hotel when they toke mine (nowadays I use what is called a guest towel in Dutch which is a little bit oversized). I do have a white flessenlikker (not for licking bottles but still for other stuff cartons or little pots). But not really for cans, just give the a good shake. Oh, cleaning your plate, we use our tongue to show our real way to show we like this plate (only informerly, not in reastaurants and with friends, only at home. Just like a kitten or puppy... ;-) It is polite to do it for your mon's cookings ;-)
The appelboor is indeed also used to sample cheese. Not by consumers, but in big cheese warehouses. You'll swing the extracted cilinder of cheese to test the quality of the cheese. The end with the plastic goed back into the cheese and then the cheese gets a new layer of plastic so you can't see it anymore.
Ok, about the "washandje" you have one hanging on your faucet, so your small kids, when they get in from playing outside and they are, let's face it disgustingly dirty (how) you can wash their face real quickly: stick your hand in het washandje, grab your kid, and go to town on their face and hands!
I like using a washandje because it scrubs harder than just by hand, good for exfoliating 😄 Also yes we save that much, I even cut plastic empty tubes of handcream open halfway so I can use it a couple of more days
As Dutch guy I know all ofcource. Washandje: we use it, just to wash your whole body with soap. Ideal for kids, put soap in it, and they can easy wash without to care that the soap is gone before they have to use it. Appelboor: my parents had it, but I don't have it. You have also one that also cut your apple in precies in the same slice. Sigaret machine: I've seen it, 15 year ago on school use other classmates it, but I have never smoke, so I don't have use it. Flessenlikker: my parents also use it, but I don't use it. Also I don't buy yogurt in bottles.
The "washandje" serves 2 main purposes, it saves soap because you only apply it once to the side and rinse your body with it and it also makes it easy to assign to a person, this became important after the second world war where bathing was a luxury instead of daily routine but for some reason it stuck around. We even have a separate configuration on our dryer to dry bathroom equipment, such as "washandjes" now.
the bottlelicker (flessenlikker) was very popular under the generation that had starved during ww2. my grandmother used it on almost everything. and you'll be suprised how much ketchup you can get out of the bottle when people now a days would throw away.
Been using them for 50 years and had no idea this is only used in our country. Showergel and a hand don't have the same scrubbing effect. And before I go to bed I also use a washandje and soap to quickly clean myself up. In my youth everybody used them and (another old tradition) only with Sunlight soap bars! Whomever invented the washand deserves a Nobel price I realize just now! Are the Dutch weird for using this or is the rest of the world just weird because they can't grasp it's use? Try it people and be amazed, you'll have the best shower imaginable!
I still use it at the cartons where the yoghurt and vla is sold in. There is a flat side on this tool for cartons, the round side is for bottles and cans.
18:29 I had the same thoughts course I've never came across that ... ever really, Joint roller well that explains it. Never used that :D. There is a much easier tool for making cigarettes but those use the husks with filter
A washandje is good for only having to soap up once. The soap sticks to the cloth so you use less soap. And it scrubs a bit which is nice. Back in the old days you didn’t shower every day, you just washed with one of these at the sink
i still use it every morning at the sink and in evening if i come from work then i take a shower and also then i use it
Of course, we are Dutch, don't have the WASHAND now anymore but Yes my Grandparents and my Mother did, so you use less soap...Soap sticks into the material...Thats the way it is...
@@EricvanDorp007 I myself still use one (i'm 37) and also my children (12 and 11) use it. We also still use soapbars instead of washgel. It scrubs your body way better then just using the bar directly on your skin.
Not used to wash your hands, but your face and body. Still use one every day. And especially on holiday, when the showers aren't as good as at home.
@@Scarafax You keep the WASHAND alive :)
For me the pannenlikker isn't about saving money, but more about not being wasteful.
Just about getting everything you've paid for for me. Like we're stereotyped as stingy. But all we really do is try to find the best price for what we're looking for, and get everything we can out of what we paid for. Indeed, why throw those last 2 spoonfuls tricking to the sides away? That's still 2 spoonfuls of yogurt or whatever you paid for and can enjoy.
Not that the washandje isn't good for showering, it's efficient there, but I suspect it was invented for when people washed themselves at the sink more often (until the sixties lots of cities had bath houses because many homes didn't have a shower or bath or it was removed because of the space needed).
When it's hot in the summer and I simply can't keep showering I often do a quick armpit wash, and that certainly works better with a washandje than just your hand.
It's also great for a sweat cleanse for lunch, yeah.
Yes your right ..But it also make you can do longer with the soap you use..And thats a good thing for the environment. If you wash with your hands its takes a lot of soap .. And again it makes normal stuf cheaper ..so you can save more for the nice things in live .. its a win win win ..
You are right. Both my parent grew up in houses without showers. I am in my 50’s and although we had a shower in the house, we often washed ourselved at the sink with a washandje.
@@ConnieIsMijnNaam Yes, often they were build with a bathroom, but the space was needed. Basically with a washandje you can wash yourself with water without getting the floor wet, try that without. I think the washandje is still very popular with people who have to wash another for whatever reason.
To be fair, its also efficient to use in a shower.
If you put soap on your hands the water will wash it away but if you put soap on a washand it stays in there longer.
Not to mention that the patterns on a washand also clean you better and faster than just your hand.
I mostly use them for cleaning tables and shit tho.
I didn't realize a "washandje" was a typical Dutch thing
Also about the bottle licker, it was brought on the market in the 1950s. Only a few short years after the dutch famine at the end of world War 2. People no doubt still greatly valued to have food at all so they didn't want to waste a single drop.
It also helped that the packaging at the time was mostly glass. Can't really fold-press glass.
Yes, the bottle-licker was actually designed to fit perfectly in the glass bottles we used back then. Those bottles were used for yoghurt and “vla” (a kind of pudding but less solid) that were - and still are - staples in the Dutch kitchen. The bottles were closed with a thin aluminum lid. We had to save those lids for recycling because the proceeds of those lids were used for charities.
We give more hulp than most country's. And spilling food as you nhow lot of People and children starfing of hunger. Hypocriet
Dat wist ik eerlijk gezegd ook niet, een washandje om je gezicht te wassen en daarna je oksels. Hoe doen zij dat dan?.met je handen...kan maar haalt weinig uit. En een handdoek gebruiken is raar,dan kan je beter een washandje hebben toch. En nu ik er overna denkt heb ik met engelse les op school wel het woord towel geleerd, en ons washandje kwam niet te sprake. Apart.
IT is pretty normal tot use a washandje in Holland under the shower solo or together with soap or showergel. You can see it like a exfoliation. You remove better the dirt of your skin. Also the unseen 😂. After that trow it in the wasmachine 👍☺️
Not only that, it suds better than just using your hand even if you are directly under the showerhead.
Then again, nothing beats a loofah for that.
It's actually pretty normal in the rest of the Netherlands as well !
@@JPDijkstra Hahahahaha GG
@@Ich1GoTgl loofah's are a bacteria magnet.. They never completely dry..this you can wash with all of your towels and have it be clean
They even use it in the other provinces, not only in Holland. Here in North-Brabant it is also common...
Your reaction 😂your frustration. I’m dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣
To the apple bore Briliant. 😂
Now he knows how we Dutch sometimes feel with the other "ordenary" stuf. 😋
The appelboor reaction was hilarious! I use that thing a lot. And the flessenlikker comes in handy to empty cartons with yoghurt, deserts and sauce bottles. It’s in my kitchen drawer. Even the washandje is still used for cleaning babies, children and grown ups also 😂😂.
There are also different versions of them, that cut it into parts instantly and are two handed, kind of standard issue for elderly people with memory issues, because the huge green thing that will not fit in any drawer will trigger them to eat fruit
So funny that we Dutch are so used to having a 'washand' that we often don't realize anymore it's actually very Dutch. As a kid I used to put a piece of soap in it and wash myself. Works perfectly, lol. I find it works better than a wash cloth though. You don't wash your hands with it, you put your hand in there and wash you whole body with it.
I use a "washandje" twice a day. Definitely to wash my face. Put the cleansing milk on my fash and whit a wet washandje remove the cleamsing milk and make up.. In the shower you put your showergel on it and at the same time you exfoliate your skin (lightly) and you save a lot of showergel too..
Really laughed about the ( flessenlikker) bottle licker, actually it's from the era 1950, when " vla" (thick custard) was delivered in glass bottles, this stuff was to solid to get it out of the bottles , ah yes memories :)
In English de flessenlikker is called bottle scraper, which makes more sense.
I am dutch, I did know instantly what it was, I was actually surprised that those people did not know this.
@@PeterK6502 They didn't know because they aren't dutch... lmao
@@komkwam Wij noemden het ook een flessenschraper of schrapper. Nooit flessenlikker.
You yelling at your screen like we yelling at ours, to you, love it XD
I love how you are ABSOLUTELY convinced that the "Washandje" is a potholder and all talking about how in can't be a wash cloth cus of the pocket while it actually is a wash cloth XD
26:19 When you looked straight at me (the camera) I actually replied out loud: Yes! Yes, we do! 🤣
the flessenlikker is not really used for carton, carton packaged have folding instructions and special weak points to fold it. in the old days every diary was in glass bottles there you used it for. it also works in plastic containers.
It's also amazing to get the last bit out of cans... especially tomato puree.
Dairy. Een 'diary' is een dagboek.
Washandjes I still use them. You use less soap or shower gel this way
if you use this as a pot holder you will definitely burn your hands
Correct, sustainable
I use a washandje every day, under the shower. Not only to wash your hands, but you whole body.
@6:58 It's not to wash your hands only.
I've a bunch of 'washandjes' as well. It's a very useful object when only a solid piece of soap is used to wash your body. When both of them are made wet, the material of a "washandje" easily picks up a thin layer of the soap, which then can be used like shower gel on a sponges.
And about the "flessenlikker" (bottle licker)...
When I moved out, this item was one of the first things I've added to my kitchen inventory. 🙈 Especially when you're finishing a carton of yoghurt, a lot of the yoghurt keeps sticking to the sides. With the "flessenlikker" it's easy to scrape everything out of the carton. 💪🏼😎
potholder is in the netherlands pannelap ....funny I thought everyone knows the washcloth,but turns out to be something Dutch, these day's it is no longer used by everyone, but the elderly certainly use it in the morning to wash at the sink and for babies it is still often used
Everyone knows the washcloth but in most countries it's just a cloth so you hold it in your hand, the washandje is more easy to use .
Still juse it every day. heb het gevoel dat ik er schoner van word
hahaha your reaction is hilarious again, thanks for your good humor the neighbors hear me laugh
Ah Highly... Even you still underestimate the Dutch frugality, to us it is not a derogatory term, It's a badge of honour... but yes Loved the look on your face when that sunk in...
‘And then they sell it back to the Swiss’! I rofl’d 😂
I use a "Washandje" every day. I find it so handy. When I am abroad in a hotel I really mis it. It is for washing you whole body, Not only your hands.
@@dianebaven2457 Hé Diane😀 Same here!😇 I always take them with me on holidays too😁
@@dianebaven2457 Grappig. Wij doen dat ook!
@@-Mieke en een plastic zakje waarin je je natte washandje weer mee terug naar huis kunt nemen🤣
@@RANHEN1 Ja, wij ook!
I remember in the old days, milk pudding, yogurt and custard were in liter bottles with about a 3.5 cm opening, when you empty it there was still quite a lot of custard hanging on the glass about 1 cm thick the yogurt used to be creamier and thicker full-fat milk products so you could remove almost a whole doce with a bottle licker and families often had many kids in the past, those bottles were also picked up by the milkman rinsed clean and there was almost no plastic in the past you had small separate shops, baker, greengrocer, butcher, milkman, etc. and reminded as a child that the peel farmer drove the tractor or horse with cart daily through the street to pick up potato peelings stale bread and leftover vegetables for cattle feed what people threw on the cart while he slowly passed the streets
A potholder is made out of insulating material. A washandje is a washcloth made out of the same material as a bath towel. The original purpose was to put a piece of soap in it while you are in the shower so it doesn't slip out of your hands. The extra benefit these days is that you can put showergell on it a bit at a time, so you don't spoil a lot of it.
Ps almost nobody has a flessenlikker anymore. Used it when yoghurt come in glass bottles
….nobody you know maybe…
@@ingridwatsup9671 yes you are right. Sorry 😬😁👍🏼
A washandje isn't for washing hands but the entire body, my Dutch mother used it when I was a kid and it was quite nice.
26:25 the moment you realise "why" we use that flessenlikker... is priceless.
I use a washandje everyday, a appelboor is never used. I eat apples with core and everything.. I never use a jointroler, I have my hands and fingers to do that. And a flesselikker or Pottelikker as we say in the area I live I still use to this day....
Thanks for this video!!!!!
I do use an appelboor when I make appeltaart.
YES! I'm not the only one on this planet that eats the entire apple! You've just made my day😄
we say pannenlikker around here
@@missteacup9726 It's not good. Apple pits are poisonous
@@Linda-hs1lk Thank you for your concern,I truely appriciate it😊.yes, I know that they contain prussic acid which can become cyanide when in contact with water.( Saliva contains water.) However,research and multiple studies state very clearly that the amount of cyanide is só extremely small that the liver has no problem what so ever with filtering this out. Unlike the amounts of prussic acid in bitter almonds and apricot kernels. People who smoke have a high dose of cyanide in their urine. I don't smoke and never eat these almonds or kernels and I really don't eat apples very often so I'm not very concerned about it😉.
"it's a potholder" 🤣Certainly my favorite video so far haha
I never called the Flessenlicker (Bottle licker) that way. I always called it a Pottenlikker (Pots licker).
Washandjes are so useful when washing yourself in the shower or bath. Much easier than a washing towel. These are a bit big, the smaller ones are easier in use.
The Flessenlikker is very useful to get everything out of a bottle or carton.
Washandje, something i never thought twice about.... it is so common for us dutch. I would never guessed it was this rare of feature.
The pottenlikker is used to clean out applesauce pots
This "washandje" was very custom in the old days when you had to wash yourself in a small tub or out of a bowl.
There was no water grid yet and hot water was sold at your door. So, no filling up the bathtub with plenty of warm water. With a washandje you can wash yourself with the little water you have. Other option was the local 'bath house'.
That was used when i was a little kid 58 years ago!!!!!!! Most dutch kids haven't seen this thing, de flessenlikker, come on!!!!!!
YEP. I still use washandjes. But I don't use one, I use several. It feels nice, it holds and spreads the soap nicely too. And of course if you really do only have one, you start on your face and work your way to the other area's last. Duh.
You rinse the clothe, squeeze it dry-ish, and in the laundry it goes with the towels. Oh, and a washandje is way thinner than a potholder. And softer too.
Same here. I have a stack of like 8 of them at home. I throw them in the washing machine after using, so I want multiple. :P Same for picking areas. You start with the face and work your way down, leaving private areas for last. More countries should try it imo. It scrubs not just rinses, you use less soap, and it works WAY better than just hands to remove dirt and dead skin cells.
I was laughing the whole time on this video, first because you did not know where we use our washandjes for and then your reaction on the appelboor :D
Your facial expression, almost at the end, says it all Paul! Lol
The flessenlikker was used to get the last bit from the bottle in the days yogurt, custard (vla) and chocolat custard was still sold in bottels. It would take you forever when you put them upside down and there was at least one portion left on the inside. In the days families had 4 to 6 children and people didnt have much money, nothing was wasted. Nowadays its al in carton packages. You can fold those to squeeze out the last portion. Its not really frugal, its about not wasting.
Washandje: in the old days, people had no shower or big bathtubs and washed themselves at the kitchen sink. A washcloth (the 'washandje') makes sure that you don't mess up the place by splashing water all around (you go and try washing your body at a sink, without some washcloth). You would soak the cloth with water, put soap on only one side, squeeze out excess water (over the sink, I might add) and start rubbing the body parts that need cleaning with the soapy side. Then, with a quick twist of the wrist, you turn the cloth on your hand to get the soap free side in front and wipe the soap of the soapy body parts, rinse the cloth under the faucet and repeat the whole process until done. So, there's the two-sided washcloth, brought to you by NL...you're welcome!
you made me laugh so hard I could hardly breathe .
and especially with the bottle licker 🤣🤣
thanks for the video .
Sincerely Hollandduck from the Netherlands
Hahaha thnx for the laugh!! Your frustration with the apple corer hahahaha😂😂
*whispering* It's NOT a pot holder... 😂😂
"are you really saving that much money...?"
YES ! We're tight ! We are so tight, i charge the mosquitos in my house rent !
You were so confident about the washandje haha. Hilarious!
Like your cat! A washcloth is nice to scrub and not having to put soap on your hands every-time during a shower. Appelboor is handy when making apple pie. The joint roller, I didn't know either. I used to smoke tobacco and hand-rolled my own cigarettes. Stopped smoking about 10 years ago, but sometimes I still roll for elderly who cannot do it themselves anymore. We used to have a flessenlikker at home, I do not own one myself.
It's not just a washcloth, but essentially a 'washglove'. This tool is used in a wet state to wash your face, and after that you scrub soap onto it to wash your body. The idea is also that this way you're sparing the amount of soap and water you'd use otherwise.
The 'potholder' that you're referring to looks a little different. And then we also have what we would literally refer to as 'oven gloves'.
Another nice 'recipe' for the apple core remover is using it on a (big) potato then fill it with herb butter cut of the ends of the core you removed to plug the 2 holes.
And then wrap it in aluminium foil and pof the potato (roast I guess in English?)
The melted herb butter get absorbed by the potato from the inside and its alot more delicious then just roasting the potato and put herb butter on it afterwards.
that sounds amazing
A washandje was very popular when showers were still uncommon and it sort of stayed. Its used in showers to create more some or in the morning and evenings that you dont shower to clean your private area’s with as little use of water and just do it quickly and efficiently.
26:26 Yes, we are saving that much money. You'd be surprised how much still comes out of bottles, pots, cans. I recommend you get one alongside your applecorerer.
You can also use a washandje for putting the scrabble stones inside!
"there's nothing else that could be used for, other than an apple"
You sure? PEAR
GOT YA
I'm Dutch and never heard about or seen the joint roller. Well I guess you learn every day :) Also you guessed it faster then I did Highly Combustible
Bestaat al heel lang
@@Linda-hs1lk proficiat
ik dacht dat het een soort klerenborstel was....zon plakding🤣🤣🤣
Heb het ook nog nooit gezien of van gehoord. Zover ik weet rolt iedereen gewoon met de hand. Dat is sneller, minder rommelig en neemt geen ruimte in. Mits je goed kan rollen natuurlijk, maar dat kennen de meeste wel. Anders vragen ze het wel aan een ander of kopen voorgedraaide.
Washandje is used for washing yourself with soap. The effect of the cloth around your hand is scrubbing your skin lightly. We love to use them because if you use it your skin gets cleaner the. Without it. Because of the ligt scrubbing effect. If you push harder your will scrub better. It feels wonderful 😊
The thing with a 'bathroom' is that the Dutch would probably define that room in the house specifically as the room with a bathtub and/or shower included. There's not a toilet in every bathroom. So, when the Dutch would go to use the toilet, they'd say "I have to go to the toilet" instead of "Ihave to go to the bathroom." In fact, in many of the more old-fashioned houses the 'toilet' and the 'bathroom' are two separate rooms. Nowadays houses often have two toilets; one in the 'toiletroom' downstairs and one in the bathroom upstairs. In cases like these the Dutch are quite specific at what they mean by certain rooms.
Another example is the Dutch living room. Most smaller Dutch houses have a living room that is kinda divided in two parts. One part is often literally called the 'eating corner' and the other is literally called the 'sitting corner' (they're not really corners, but I think you'd get the picture. They're equivalent to the separate dining room and lounge/living room respectively, but in the case of these houses together they are often part of the same room, which we would call 'living room'. I don't know how common these 'hybrid rooms are in the US, but they are common in the Netherlands.
The washandje is used like a sponge. You put soap on it.
😂 At 3:06 That is what a 180 crash and bump looks like... and 5:20 again... And in the end still not really believing...
@07:48 Edit: No P. , ditch your thoughts. It's not for washing your hands, you moist the thing, rub soap on it and then use it to soap, to wash your body.😁🤣
2nd one, the apple-corer, straight away! 👌
3rd, joint-roller, almost straight away, but unsure straying afterwards...👌
4th, the bottle-scraper, You got it at 24:40 👌 (this dates from the time 'vla' and yoghurt (this was real yoghurt and quite thick), were sold in glass bottles capped with thin aluminium on a opening of approximate 3-4 cm..(or 2,5 inch....)
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That's 3 out of 4! Really good!
The thing with the wash glove ( washandje) , that really made me laugh my ass off. Its to wash yourself. The cloth can absorb much more soap than a hand ever can and thats why.
B E S T part of the video: 26m25s and the look on your face 🤣 lmao
Hahaha de flessenlikker is sooooo old, it's from the 1950-1960s from a time we Dutch had just enough money to make it to the end of the month. My Grandparents had this and my mother also.. Don't see them much these days, but the shops HEMA and BLOKKER will have this 100%
Oh my god the thing with the tool to get rid of the core of the apple , hilarious.
I love your reaction on this one 🤣 knowing a lot but not knowing what it is🤣 except the appel pen. As we call it.
Ppl should really quit saying we are cheap lolz we just don't waste good stuff and that's a big difference 🤷♂
Back in the day the milk man came door to door every week, selling glass bottles. Milk products were luxury products back then so expensive and glass bottles had to be re used. so a tool like that helped use every last bit that was in the bottle in stead of wassing it it out with half the product still in them (not milk, but thick stuff like yoghurt and such) ... it also kept your pantry clean. no unwanted culture growth.
The washandje has a scrubbing effect, which your hands defenitly dont have. We do have something similar to use for taking stuff out of the oven, just thicker and handshaped.
omg this is so funny.
of all items I only use the washcloth.
Lots of soap on the washcloth and then you have a lot of foam in the shower.
that's really great
what a sweet cat. I like cats. I have 3 myself
We Dutch are just as surprised about the washandje as you are on the apples xD
You wil be amazed when you see how much you can get out of a package of yoghurt with that scratcher at the end
Yes Highly we are saving money with the flessenlikker. 😂😂😂
I use a washandje to clean my face at the sink in the morning, I don't use it in the shower though. We have potholders as well, but you can't usually put your hand in those :P The flessenlikker is used a lot at my house primarily for bottles with a small opening because there is usually like a quarter left in the bottle that just doesn't want to come out and you can't get with a spoon. We ain't wasting food XD
Dude at 23:57 when you said frugal, you sounded like my echo. I said the exact thing, with the same tone, just a second earlier. I knew exactly what it was, but didn't know what it's called. Pottenlikker, flessenlikker and pakkenlikker, i used it for everything.
And i seriously wonder what people use to wash themselves. A washand, basically a washcloth, is perfect. Its designed to fit your hand, holds soap well and it scrapes the skin very nicely. And since they are small you can fit an infinite amount of them in your laundry.
the core of an Apple is in Dutch klokhuis (clockhousse )
I didn't know that joint thing either , this was too much fun
I’m Dutch but I never saw a joint roller. I think there is a similar device for shag, but I have never seen one. I don’t smoke and I never have, nor did I ever smoke a joint.
When there weren't showers yet, people used the washing cloth to wash yourself at the sink. My parents still use washing clothes when they dont want to shower. You wash your whole body with it. It's also handy for cleaning kids faces when they've played outside or for just washing your private parts. I dont ever use one anymore, just because I love to shower 😊
To be fair, this scraper was used when ' ye olde ' milkman delivered everything in bottles. And these bottles had to be rinsed and returned. We aren't so cheap that we use it on cartons.
1. I never use a washandje in the shower. I only use it to wash my face in the morning.
2. I don't eat apples, because I'm allergic to it, but I know what it is.
3. Although I don't smoke, I have seen one of these at least one time in my life.
4. In my family we still use this to get everything out of a pack of custard or yoghurt or a pot of apple sauce.
We usually use a washcloth at the sink. And a bath sponge for the shower.
Ik still use the washandje everyday in the shower
the old school bottles of ketchup I bet if you clean 10 with them you have a new bottle.
I have it with my vape liquid I cut them open and get the last drops out :P
10 empty bottles almost a full one.
I am very dutch when it comes to waste like that :)
LOL, I do the same with my vape liquid. Save up a bunch of used bottles, pull the cap off and poor the small amount that stayed behing in one bottle.
@@thesillypig785 LOL I do the same thing ;)
@@thesillypig785 taking the cap of does not do it for me.
I just cut them open halfway down the bottle and get the liquid out that way.
you can squeeze it in a nice shape to drain it.
and I get the last bit that never wants to come out by touching the contained I am putting it in.
I am just that dutch.
I cant shower correctly without a washandje! It really helps with scrubbing, my hands are too smooth for that hahaha! and it keeps the soap usable longer too
Your cat!! B-E-A-Utiful! Sorry, got distracted in the end.
Your reaction on the Apple core remover and the bottle (licker) cleaner is so funny
I have never ever seen someone use a joint roller in a coffeeshop. Being able to roll a splendid joint by hand is a rite of passage. 😂 Have seen those about 20 years ago when some family still smoked cigarettes but didn't even recognize it anymore.
I don't have a washandje, I snitched one from a hotel when they toke mine (nowadays I use what is called a guest towel in Dutch which is a little bit oversized). I do have a white flessenlikker (not for licking bottles but still for other stuff cartons or little pots). But not really for cans, just give the a good shake. Oh, cleaning your plate, we use our tongue to show our real way to show we like this plate (only informerly, not in reastaurants and with friends, only at home.
Just like a kitten or puppy... ;-) It is polite to do it for your mon's cookings ;-)
The appelboor is indeed also used to sample cheese. Not by consumers, but in big cheese warehouses. You'll swing the extracted cilinder of cheese to test the quality of the cheese. The end with the plastic goed back into the cheese and then the cheese gets a new layer of plastic so you can't see it anymore.
I am LMAO because of your reactions :-)
Ok, about the "washandje" you have one hanging on your faucet, so your small kids, when they get in from playing outside and they are, let's face it disgustingly dirty (how) you can wash their face real quickly: stick your hand in het washandje, grab your kid, and go to town on their face and hands!
On the applecorer, the one who said it was a cheese sampler was close. Those look similar.
I had no clue what the third thing was🤣 I roll my joints by hand
I like using a washandje because it scrubs harder than just by hand, good for exfoliating 😄 Also yes we save that much, I even cut plastic empty tubes of handcream open halfway so I can use it a couple of more days
Great tip!
As Dutch guy I know all ofcource.
Washandje: we use it, just to wash your whole body with soap. Ideal for kids, put soap in it, and they can easy wash without to care that the soap is gone before they have to use it.
Appelboor: my parents had it, but I don't have it. You have also one that also cut your apple in precies in the same slice.
Sigaret machine: I've seen it, 15 year ago on school use other classmates it, but I have never smoke, so I don't have use it.
Flessenlikker: my parents also use it, but I don't use it. Also I don't buy yogurt in bottles.
Have not used a "washandje" since i was a kid, i think i'm going to see them again when i go to a elderly home many years from now. 😂
Also commonly used to wash babies here in the Netherlands. Washandjes are the best. 😅
I grew up with washandjes. I have used them all my life. I never knew it was a typical Dutch thing until about a year ago.
The "washandje" serves 2 main purposes, it saves soap because you only apply it once to the side and rinse your body with it and it also makes it easy to assign to a person, this became important after the second world war where bathing was a luxury instead of daily routine but for some reason it stuck around. We even have a separate configuration on our dryer to dry bathroom equipment, such as "washandjes" now.
It saves soap 😮 Waarom besef ik dat nu pas?
the bottlelicker (flessenlikker) was very popular under the generation that had starved during ww2. my grandmother used it on almost everything. and you'll be suprised how much ketchup you can get out of the bottle when people now a days would throw away.
the last tool was really nice. I always get a bit cranky when I can't empty the mornay sauce glass entirely when making lasagna!
Been using them for 50 years and had no idea this is only used in our country. Showergel and a hand don't have the same scrubbing effect. And before I go to bed I also use a washandje and soap to quickly clean myself up. In my youth everybody used them and (another old tradition) only with Sunlight soap bars! Whomever invented the washand deserves a Nobel price I realize just now! Are the Dutch weird for using this or is the rest of the world just weird because they can't grasp it's use? Try it people and be amazed, you'll have the best shower imaginable!
Keep in mind, that yogurt, cottage cheese and custard used to be delivered in bottles by the milkman! ✌🏼
I still use it at the cartons where the yoghurt and vla is sold in. There is a flat side on this tool for cartons, the round side is for bottles and cans.
18:29 I had the same thoughts course I've never came across that ... ever really, Joint roller well that explains it. Never used that :D.
There is a much easier tool for making cigarettes but those use the husks with filter
That last one… you know it so you’re Dutch😁
I love this guys reaction to a "washandje" 🤣 and he think its a ovenmiten although those are a lot thicker 🤔 if you looked closely
I'm Dutch and I have tears of laughter when I see this 😂😂