If you thought that Coca-Cola was just for drinking, you’ll be amazed to find that this extremely popular soft drink is incredibly handy in so many different ways. If you aren’t convinced, just take a look at what actually goes into Coke cans and bottles. The black fizzy beverage is filled with ingredients which are great for pain relief, cleaning, and can even function as a hair product! Let’s pop the lid on the other phenomenal usages for Coca-Cola.
Some Awesomely Unexpected Coca Cola Usages
Wiping A Kettle Clean
Hot drinks are essential for anyone pushing through a tough day of work. Sadly, heavily used kettles often don’t get any cleaning gratitude for their hard work. Take a break from your busy schedule to pour some Coca-Cola into your kettle and then put it on. The boiling heat mixed with the drink will crumble all the filth away and will ensure that your next cup of coffee is the best you have had in a while. Next, pour in some water and wash out the kettle.
Wiping A Kettle Clean
Stripping Paint Off Metal
Got some paint that needs stripping? Save a can of Coke for the job instead of buying an expensive product form a hardware store. The fizzy drink is best used on metallic furniture. Soak an old rag with Coca-Cola and apply it to a metal chair or table. Remember to keep the towel wet with Coke for the best results. This is a fantastic hack for DIYers and home improvement jobs with a budget to stick to.
Stripping Paint Off Metal
Treating Painful Jellyfish Encounters
A tranquil day at the beach is often threatened by the scary presence of jellyfish, whose poisonous stings can really ruin your time off. Luckily, Coke is not only the perfect refreshment for a sunny day, but also an ideal part of your sandy first aid kit! If you find yourself stung, the first step is to apply some urine, followed by vinegar, and finally, pour some Coke on the painful area.
Treating Painful Jellyfish Encounters
Taking Grout Off Tiles
Few things are more likely to ruin a good shower than finding yourself surrounded by grout-filled tiles. The detergents you would usually use are quite costly, which is why you should just grab a good old fashioned can of Coke for some serious grout busting. Douse the gritty area with Coke, leave it for a few minutes and then begin scrubbing. Finish off by washing the areas with water and then cap it all off with your ideal fragrance.
Taking Grout Off Tiles
Taking Bubblegum Out Of Hair
Most people can recount the trauma of having to remove a clump of hair thanks to a sneaky piece of gum. Girls with longer hair will probably have a few relevant stories. You can avoid a bald patch with Coke, thankfully, by dousing the gummy section with Coke. The fizz will break the candy down. Having to cut a large chunk out of your child’s hair will never have to be resorted to again.
Taking Bubblegum Out Of Hair
Maintaining Clear Windshields
The chillier seasons are bound to frost up your windshields, making driving something of a hazard. Early morning trips to work don’t need to become a mission when you can simply pour a carbonated substance that won’t freeze on your windshield. Watch in awe as the ice melts off in no time! Cleaning your windshields is essential for maintaining a safe presence on the road, and too many drivers fail to stick to this simple cleaning process.
Maintaining Clear Windshields
Taking Care Of Rust
Tool maintenance can slip many people’s minds, resulting in rusty wrenches and hammers. If you want to avoid a day-long session of elbow grease, simply leave them in a container of Coke to break the rust down. Screws locked with rust can also be loosened with the refreshing drink. Take care of your tools, and they will take care of any future jobs that you have in store, no matter how filthy or rusted they are!
Taking Care Of Rust
Getting Your Natural Hair Color Back
Not every hair dye job comes out looking the way it does on the packaging. Whether you did it yourself in the bathroom, or a professional thought it would suit you, regrettable hair dyes generally only being fading after numerous washes. Thankfully, the classic soft drink will save you all this hassle, ensuring that every hair returns to its natural form. This will also save you from an expensive emergency trip to the hairdresser.
Getting Your Natural Hair Color Back
A Sensational Barbecue Marinade
Not all of Coke’s uses are life hacks. If you’re looking to spice things up for your next barbecue, consider adding Coke to your favorite barbecue sauces to bring them that extra syrupy kick. Just make sure to keep your new recipe a secret from family and friends, just like Coca-Cola does with theirs! If your neighbors ask you what your secret ingredient is, take a page out of Coca-Cola’s book and keep it to yourself!
A Sensational Barbecue Marinade
Crystal Clear Sight
Those who wear glasses among us can go on for hours about how irritating watermarks and general stains on lenses are. Further, the relevant cleaning agents for glasses can be quite abrasive. Why not opt for the sweet-smelling and highly effective cleaning properties of Coke? Enjoy your new and improved crystal-clear sight! No one need ever suffer through murky glasses ever again. Anyone with glasses should really take this piece of advice to heart.
Crystal Clear Sight
Bringing Your Garden Back To Life
Many people are under the assumption that Coke is unhealthy for plants. Guess again, naysayers, as the fizzy drink serves as an ideal fertilizer. The trick is to put in a measured amount, as an abundance of the liquid can ruin your soil. For the best results, mix the Coke with a splash of water in a spray bottle. You would never suspect that plants would love a refreshing glass of Coke!
Bringing Your Garden Back To Life
The Ideal Carpet Care
Getting a perfectly caring carpet cleaner is a challenge. They’re also generally quite costly and will often make the carpet material unpleasantly coarse. Coke, on the other hand, will make for a seemingly counterintuitive cleaner that dissolves staining substances without affecting softness. Those with pets who have yet to learn the law of the land will definitely want to keep a few cans of Coke around to deal with unhappy accidents.
The Ideal Carpet Care
Curing Hiccups Without The Shock
An ice-cold glass of Coke is ideal for a sweaty day, but it’s also the best way to cure hiccups without asking someone to scream at you unexpectedly. The fizzy properties of the drink will smoothen your spasming diaphragm. Just sip carefully! Hiccups can ruin anyone’s day, especially the persistent kind that refuse to go away, even if your friends give you the bigges frights of your life. Skip the old wives’ tales!
Curing Hiccups Without The Shock
Dishwashing Dynamite
A pile of grimy pots and pans are bound to put a damper on an otherwise perfect family meal. If you find that your crockery accumulates with a particularly sticky mess, a bottle of Coke is bound to dissolve even the most resistant gunk. Cleaning up after a big meal will never be the same! You can rest assured knowing that no matter how saucy or gritty your meal is that you will have a simple cleaning up process.
Dishwashing Dynamite
The End Of Garage Oil Spills
If Coke can clear up carpet stains and break down crispy food gunk in pans, you can bet good money that unwanted oil stains in garages can be fixed in no time too. Cars are leaky things, and your driveway or garage floor deserves better. Simply leave a good amount of Coca-Cola on the oil stains at hand and leave to soak prior to a good wash. Come back in a few hours and wipe up the excess moisture.
The End Of Garage Oil Spills
Getting Rid Of Slimy Garden Pests
While this use for Coke isn’t very vegan-friendly, the dedicated gardeners among us will insist that snails and slugs need to be dealt with properly. These slimy pests can easily eat their way through lovingly cared for plants. To get rid of uninvited dinner guests in your garden, leave a bowl filled with Coke outside. The sweet scent will lure them in, and the acidity will take care of them once and for all.
Getting Rid Of Slimy Garden Pests
Polishing Car Battery Terminals
The wear and tear of a car battery is just part of driving. You don’t need to let its terminals rust to breaking point, however, when you can simply use Coke to clean off the debris which stops the current flow. Leave your car battery terminals in a tub of Coca-Cola and witness the results! This will also save you from an expensive and unnecessary trip to the mechanic’s shop.
Polishing Car Battery Terminals
A Treatment For Nausea
This is one of the better-known treatments for nausea. A flat can or bottle of coke works wonders on an upset stomach. Don’t gulp the stuff down, however. What you want to do is swallow one teaspoon’s worth each hour until the nausea subsides. Say goodbye to indigestion medicine! Rather than guzzling down on some horrible tasting peptobysmol, you can instead enjoy the sweet taste of Coke, even if you prefer it fizzy.
A Treatment For Nausea
Clearing Up That Snotty Nose
While Coke is unrecommended by dieticians, its comprehensive usage in the home makes it incredibly handy. Here is another fantastic medicinal use for Coke, which when boiled up and sipped like tea, is bound to clear up even the most congested of noses. Just make sure to keep track of the boiling process, as Coke can evaporate into burned sugar crystals. You might want to ask your doctor how this process works, but we have tried it, and it works!
Clearing Up That Snotty Nose
The Kind Of Ham To Die For
Coke isn’t just a saucy aid for barbecues. Your Christmas ham, when basted in the drink, will come out juicier and tastier than even Santa Clause could ever imagine. Once basted with Coke, pop the ham in the oven and watch as the sugar caramelizes and keeps the meat packed with juiciness. A mouth-wateringly juicy ham can spell the difference between a successful Christmas and one where Santa automatically puts you on the naughty list.
The Kind Of Ham To Die For
A Vintage Touch
This usage is perfect for school projects requiring vintage-looking props, such as yellowed and crinkled documents. Painting your papers with Coke will provide that aged effect, just make sure not to soak the materials as they could begin dissolving. Take an old towel, wet it with Coca-Cola and sponge it onto your documents. Once the Coke has been applied, let it set in for a while for that guaranteed A+!
A Vintage Touch
Season Your Food Like A Pro
Yes, Coke does have culinary uses beyond just meat basting! It also blends deliciously with your preferred spices and seasoning. Finding that perfectly tender steak can be difficult. If you find that the cut you bought from the butcher is too tough, try rubbing it down with a mixture of Coke and Italian seasoning. This will start softening the meat amazingly as its structure starts weakening. You will always keep a can of Coke on your spice rack from now on!
Season Your Food Like A Pro
Coca-Cola Cake Craziness
It makes sense that Coke makes for an incredibly useful cake ingredient, seeing as it is loaded with sugar. There are plenty of Coke-friendly baking recipes available online, but you can add it in to your classic cake recipes as well. You will be scrumptiously boosting a cake’s sweetness with a bit of Coke. What can’t Coke improve? There are so many dishes that can be improved significantly with the syrupy soft drink.
Coca Cola Cake Craziness
Keeping Bees And Wasps Away
If you and your family are big fans of the outdoors, you might want to take some Coke with to your next picnic. Bees and wasps are infamous for swarming happy campers when they sit down to eat a tantalizing spread. Nature lovers know that killing bees is a terrible idea, given their endangered status. Rather, you can leave a glass of Coke out near to your eating area. The little black and yellow bugs will be attracted to the super sweet drink, rather than stinging you for your sandwich.
Keeping Bees And Wasps Away
Busting Bad Smells
You really can’t be blamed for messing yourself when eating particularly staining foods. What you shouldn’t have to live with, however, is the seemingly unbeatable smell of fishy stains. Put your affected clothes in a bucket, pour in some Coca-Cola and let it all soak in. Rinse your clothes with water thoroughly and then pop them in the washing machine. They’ll be back to smelling like your chosen fabric softener in no time.
Busting Bad Smells
Bug-Free Car Windshields
Bugs have a habit of getting splattered onto windshields, that’s just an inevitable part of driving. What you can stop, however, is the poor little squashed fellow from hardening into a difficult to remove mess on your windshield. Here comes the Coke! Wet an old cloth with the fizzy drink and scrub the little guy off. Just make sure that you don’t hit the paint job! Splattered bugs can take a lot of elbow grease to remove.
Bug Free Car Windshields
Getting Rid Of Skunk Spray
With the stink-busting properties of Coke in mind, we had to try it out on the deadly skunk spray, which is infamously difficult to get rid of, even with detergent. These furry little critters can send even the toughest of adventurers running for their lives, and they are best left undisturbed. Simply repeat the bucket-cleaning method from the earlier usage, dousing the targeted garment in a bucket of Coke for some time.
Getting Rid Of Skunk Spray
Money Hygiene
Currency is one of the rarely considered yet filthiest of common items we use all the time. Coins will pass through many grubby hands throughout their lifetimes. We suggest filling a large container with your coin collection before dousing them with Coke. You can then leave it all to soak in for a good few hours before rinsing with water. This hack works fantastically for your vintage collector’s coins, too.
Money Hygiene
Sensational Coke Curls
We’ve got an amazing hair tip for you, provided that big, vivacious curls are your thing. It all starts by collecting empty Coke cans, rather than trashing them. When you have several, you can then wrap your locks around them, just how you would with ordinary curlers. We want you to step out with the ultimate style. Say goodbye to ordinary curler burns, that can ruin even the most perfected hairdo!
Sensational Coke Curls
Getting Your Meat Sizzle Ready
Any meat-savvy chef will tell you that properly seasoning and marinating your meat is essential for a properly juicy and flavorsome result. Coca-Cola just happens to be the perfect marinating agent, simultaneously tenderizing your meat like nothing else. Coke will soften your meat to the point where anyone can pull off that perfect medium-rare steak. Whatever your preference, no one likes chewing their way through a tough hunk of beef.
Getting Your Meat Sizzle Ready
Sparkling Thrones
If Coke can clean grout out of tiles, imagine what it can do for your toilet bowl? The common porcelain toilet can very easily be cleaned to store quality with Coca-Cola. You can easily turn a nasty job spent on your hands and knees into something as simple as pouring a bottle of Coke around the edges of the bowl. Skip the grubby and hateful job of getting down on your hands and knees.
Sparkling Thrones
Clear Windows Like Never Before
Virtually any surface made of glass is begging to be cleaned with Coke. Even if you have neglected to clean your windows for months, the citric acid in Coca-Cola will wash away the gunk in no time. If your mirrors are looking cloudy, then give them some Coca-Cola loving too.
After reading through this list, you will never drink Coke in the same way again! If you found that even just a few of these uses worked wonders for you, please let us know? Your friends could also benefit from some fizzy help, so feel free to pass it on to them. Until we meet again, stay safe and stay hydrated!
Clear Windows Like Never Before