Me: “hey, what do you think loofahs are made of?”
Don: “some sort of sea creature?”
Me: “hah! that’s exactly what I thought! But no! They’re a plant – like a cucumber!”
I learned this from Zero Waste Home. She grows loofahs. She went through a phase of gathering moss to use as a toilet paper replacement. It’s quite a book.
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For years (years!) I’ve been cutting careful circles of baking paper to line the bases of my springform cake tins.
One day I realised I could just lay a large square of paper (straight off the roll) on the base and snap the springform around it. No cutting required.
D’oh!
OMG, the baking paper thing is a revelation to me too! Thanks!
My grandma always had a loofah in her bathroom when I was a kid and I was terrified of it because of the texture when it got wet. I thought it was semi-alive. Don’t think I’m quite over it yet.
I am pleased it wasn’t just me with baking paper (it often is). It really is transformative.
I should probably not tell you that I tossed the loofah into the worm farm to see what would happen – what happened is that the worms decided to make it a little home and fill all the holes – it’s like something from a horror film!
Gaaaah! The stuff of nightmares!