The "This Might Be A Stupid Question, But...." Thread

[MonteCristo]

Stupid question for contact wearers! These suckers feel weird and stuff keeps going out of focus. I have acuvue 2's and they are (i guess) soft plastic. Is this normal or what?

That usually means I put them in inside out.   

[ladyknight1]

I have a question for the group.   At long last, I finally got my hands on one of those mini-bundt-cake pans, the ones that make the fancy little bundts, 6 to a pan?   Yeah, from Freecycle!  I'm all excited. I've always wanted one.

So I made cakes in it, and now I know why she wanted to get rid of the thing. How do you clean them??   Everythign was well-greased and came out beautifully, but it left 'cake fur' behind, and that's miserable to clean out!  I had to go in there with my hand and physically dig into every crevasse, and I am NOT doing that every time.  There has to be a better way.

Suggestions?  Please?

I clean all my Bundt and muffin tins the same way. Place in sink, run hot water over with soap, let soak for 5-10 minutes. Use a dish brush to loosen any remaining debris. Run soapy water again, then rinse and let dry.

[Nikko-chan]

Brand new. I am a brand new contact wearer. I do have astigmatism but the doctor said it wasn't bad enough for the special lenses... and i am really hating these plastic things cause I can feel them. I think i might have to go with the silicone based ones. they feel... not weird per se they just move around and things go in and out of focus, like when my eyes cross. Mine are 2 week wear, and that's fine... I just need to find ones that fit properly I guess.

When you say brand new do you mean you literally have started wearing lenses for the first time in the last few days? If so, you might find they'll settle down in a day or two. I found that the first time I wore them and, particularly, the first time I switched to soft lenses that I really noticed that every time I blinked they shifted ever so slightly and noticed them moving around and briefly losing focus. Which is just the lens moving a little when you blink.  I was told this was very common and after a day or two your eyes get used to this which I did find. I had to build up my wear time initially - 2 hours the first day then 3, 4, 6 etc until by the end of the week I was wearing them for the full day. After a few days full wear I had to go back to have a check that they were fitting correctly which they were but I'd already lost the feeling that they were shifting around by that point anyway.

I was hoping for that too, but when I wore them last night, they shifted so much and are possible too weak of a prescription or something, that now my eyes are strained >.<

[Betelnut]

Speaking of contacts (uh boy, is this a stupid question), do colored contacts color your view?  If not, why?  Is the center clear?

[violinp]

Speaking of contacts (uh boy, is this a stupid question), do colored contacts color your view?  If not, why?  Is the center clear?

Your pupil is what takes in the images, so I don't imagine it would tint your vision unless you got something like cat eyes.

[Slartibartfast]

Speaking of contacts (uh boy, is this a stupid question), do colored contacts color your view?  If not, why?  Is the center clear?

Some are clear in the middle and some are just a colored blob covering the whole middle of the lens.  The colored ones do change your whitebalance a bit - less than cheap sunglasses but more than regular glasses do.  It's enough to be noticeable when you first put them on (or if you only have one eye in) and enough you probably don't want to do any finicky color-sensitive work like interior design.

[snowfire]

I wore contacts before I had Lasik.  I loved the colored ones but had to get the ones with clear centers.  Colored contact + color grading diamonds = BAD IDEA.

P.S.  I had one pair that apparently had something in the color dye that made them glow a bit under ultraviolet light.  DH and I were playing a lot of laser tag at the time...which is usually lit by a lot of UV.  I guess I weirded out some folks who saw my eyes glowing like a cat.    Unfortunately, I never got pictures of the phenomena.

[VorFemme]

How do I get my dehydrator trays clean? I have soaked them in hot soapy water and scrubbed at them with a brush, but I cannot totally get them clean. Granted, if I went at every single little square with a toothpick or some such, I could probably do it, but that would metaphorically take forever. Is there a simpler way?

(I have the grated, circular kind.)

I run my smoke colored plastic dehydrator trays through the dishwasher, air dry, scrub them with a brush, then run them AGAIN through the dishwasher before boxing them up for storage.  Then I break VorGuy's head by running them through the dishwasher before allowing him to put raw food (especially meat) on them to dry.....

The food isn't cooked - I want those trays as close to sterile as they can get before leaving raw meat on them to dry for fourteen or eighteen hours......or however long a batch takes!

[ladyknight1]

I agree with your reasoning and method, VorFemme.

[Mental Magpie]

I guess I should have mentioned that I don't have a dish washer unless you count me.

[Iris]

I guess I should have mentioned that I don't have a dish washer unless you count me.

I haven't washed a dehydrator tray as such but my pre dishwasher method of cleaning very difficult things was to alternate soaking in very hot soapy water for around 10 minutesand rubbing with a brush/bottle brush (whichever suited best) until things were cleaned to my satisfaction. For really bad things I would soak overnight.

[VorFemme]

I guess I should have mentioned that I don't have a dish washer unless you count me.

That's the very same dishwasher brand my mother had for years & years when I lived at home.  She did some dishes,  Lil Sis did some dishes, and Lil VorFemme did some dishes every week.  Until Not-So-Lil VorFemme got married and Lil Sis went off to college and my two brothers got handed the dishwashing chores.....talk about flabbergasted!  Those two never saw dishwashing coming their way!

But soaking in hot soapy water until the "stuff" softens, scrubbing with a dishwashing brush, and rinsing in HOT water would work. 

Rinsing in boiling water (scalding is the term Mom used when doing it to canning jars, in my youth) would probably be enough after getting them out to use again from storage.  A sealed plastic bag to keep odd things from taking up residence in the trays never hurts........

[Mental Magpie]

I guess I should have mentioned that I don't have a dish washer unless you count me.

That's the very same dishwasher brand my mother had for years & years when I lived at home.  She did some dishes,  Lil Sis did some dishes, and Lil VorFemme did some dishes every week.  Until Not-So-Lil VorFemme got married and Lil Sis went off to college and my two brothers got handed the dishwashing chores.....talk about flabbergasted!  Those two never saw dishwashing coming their way!

But soaking in hot soapy water until the "stuff" softens, scrubbing with a dishwashing brush, and rinsing in HOT water would work. 

Rinsing in boiling water (scalding is the term Mom used when doing it to canning jars, in my youth) would probably be enough after getting them out to use again from storage.  A sealed plastic bag to keep odd things from taking up residence in the trays never hurts........

I grew up with a dishwasher, so the by hand only came when I started paying my own rent..

I soak them in hot soapy water, use a brush to scrub, rinse, try repeating the method, and there are still little bits of meat stuck in the corners.  Maybe it's the brush I'm using?

Kind of looks like this:
http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Grips-Household-Scrub-Brush/dp/B00004OCL3

[lady_disdain]

I find that a soak in very hot water with some baking soda loosens most gunk and food.

[artk2002]

Stupid question for contact wearers! These suckers feel weird and stuff keeps going out of focus. I have acuvue 2's and they are (i guess) soft plastic. Is this normal or what?

Not stupid, and not normal at all. Go right back to your optician/opthalmologist and get this taken care of.

There are a number of reasons this could be happening, but in my experience, it sounds like the lenses aren't fitting to your eyes properly. My eyes have a weird contour (some dips in odd places) so getting lenses that fit well was a big challenge. Lenses with the same curvature from different manufacturers (or even different types within one manufacturer) would fit differently. Or, it could simply be because the optician didn't do a good job checking for the curvature of your eyes and went with "close enough."

Is this one pair or do you have the same issue with multiple pairs? Manufacturing isn't an exact science for these things and I've had a few bad lenses in a lot.

MonteCristo's point about putting them on inside out is another good one. Been there, done that!