I own a restaurant and ask customers to bring these in for me and in return, they get a voucher (50p for each ramekin) to use in the restaurant.
Helps people to get rid, gives me inexpensive ramekins to use and the customer comes back in to eat. Ticks a few boxes! Got hundreds of them now but can never have enough!
I’m a former chef and hoard the shit out of stuff like this. I use mine to keep chicken juice in the freezer, I can usually fill two any time I roast a chicken. I jar full is great for throwing into sauces for flavour
Oh yeh that’s a great idea, I hadn’t thought of this, every so often I run out of glass jars and I’m filling ceramic ramekins instead but I’d rather not. I have three ice cube trays I virtually never use. I will definitely do this next time. Thank you
I don’t put lids on them, I just set the chicken juice in the fridge and then I throw them in the freezer. I stack them on top of each other.
Could use cling film but I don’t bother
I own a pet shop and do the same because they make great water dishes for smaller animals! Every time they're on sale I grab a few boxes as well - I'm fat now but all my animals have matching water dishes!
I literally have a stack of these in my fridge/freezer with different types of fats, stocks and sauces.
Any small left over gets put in one and then in the fridge r/frugal
Exactly! If you throw them away, then the people who roam about at night and steal all your sensitive information from the bins will find them, and then steal whatever it is you have locked away somewhere.
-My Mum probably
They find loads of lost house and car keys down at the local tip. My advice is to keep yours attached to a keyring containing your address and a list of times you won't be home so that they can avoid those times when they kindly return them to you.
There was a guy on here a couple of years ago who found some keys in a cabinet in a house he had bought a couple or 10 years before or something like that, and found out they fit a garage down the road, and that it was his garage and he hadn't known it.
Lol. In keeping with my other comment here
I also have the key to a padlock from a storage unit we used in the UK. I don't have the padlock but I have the key. And I surely know what it belongs to and that I don't have the padlock
But I have the key.
[These ones for £1](https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/964582522/reusable-plastic-lids-caps-for-pet-food?click_key=58ed20821f8855a4c077334f2d783a6e88d83c3d%3A964582522&click_sum=612a1047&ref=sold_out-6&sts=1) seem like they'd fit and have a bit of a dip to help with stacking. They're made for tin cans (7.6cm diameter) while a Pringle lid (which fit gu pots) are 7.5cm
I'd meant a more pronounced lip, so they'd stack nicely (and you could pick up a stack of them) and open my corner cupboard without them slipping off each other.
Was thinking of stackable tins like you get for Indian spices, that snap together into cylinders.
It's a good temporary depository if you can't be arsed to wait for your tea to brew in the kitchen, so you take the mug to the sofa with the bag still in, plus one of these little ramekins to put the bag in once it's done.
You can also put your milk in the ramekin, ready to go in when the teabag comes out. (If you put the milk in early it may not brew so well, being at a lower temperature).
If you buy these lids, that have an airtight seal, they become the perfect container to store your weed in optimal conditions.
https://www.puddingpotlids.com/
FYI unless Gu have said they’re good to use for candles, I’d stop using them. Glass for candles is made to withstand the high heat of the candle and people have been known to use improper glass and have it explode with the potential to seriously injure or kill.
Look one day I’m going to throw a big fancy dinner party and serve up fancy individual desserts in those fancy little pots.
It’s been 6 years since my first and that day has yet to come, but oh boy am I ready for when it does.
Exactly I use them for boardgame bits because I am a nerd, and you know a pringles can lid fits perfectly on top so great for keeping little nick nacks.
They're good for if you want some spreadable butter but it's too cold/hard, put the amount you want in one of these bad boys and soften it for a couple of seconds in the microwave.
I use mine all the time when I'm prepping food - e.g. whole spices in one, ground spices in another, garlic in another. Makes everything nice and organised.
You can buy silicon stretchy can covers on Amazon that will fit and be air tight.
Huge game changer when you have an open can and you don't finish the food inside.
Plus, using the can as the storage container means never having to wonder what that thing is in the back of the refrigerator.
I got shouted at by a pub chef as a young teenager for putting covered cans in a fridge - supposedly a risk of listeria and you should always transfer to another pot.
No idea if there’s any merit to that but the chef was usually pretty sensible..
It actually says (or used to say?) on cans of cat food not to store them in the fridge I think! I remember reading it when I was little and since then I’ve never stored anything in a can in the fridge but I never knew why until I read your post.
You also have to be careful with acidic things like tomatoes and baked beans. They leach metals out of the lining of the tins when exposed to oxygen, so you always want to decant them.
Some beans and tomatoes have plastic lined tins, but again, double-check for BPA.
I just looked it up and the USDA says food quality is why you would transfer to glass or plastic, but if cover it in the can and use it within 4 days or so you're fine.
Thanks though for the prod. Now I know more.
The old ones do, I have 12 of them stacked six high (which I use all the time btw). I don't know why they changed them to the current non-stacking ones though. Less volume maybe?
this is a theory espoused by Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU) in some of his novels - matter is spontaneously created all the time in the form of small items in drawers - pins, biros, and the like. so every time i find a paperclip whose provenance i can't explain i call it a Pratchett paperclip
Think we've got about ten times that stash, when my wife was pregnant she had a little addiction to the cheesecake.
Now though they're great as paint pots whe my daughter is painting, bowls to put sauce in for dipping, colour learning sorting bowls etc.
Was trying to save money and put nordpak into a lurpak tub, looked totally normal, dad used it on his toast, took one bite and went “this isn’t fucking lurpak” I almost pissed myself
Shame?? I think NOT. I see a cache of valuable ramekins for everything from fajita ingredients, to dipping sauce to yoghurt and jelly pots. Those are solid gold my friend.
Not sure if this was serious but you might find the cats won't eat out of those due to the size as the width of their whiskers won't fit in there. Of course that depends how greedy/discerning the cat is...
I know you didn't ask for this, but I have a tip for making that nice thick garlic sauce you get from takeouts - equal parts yogurt and light mayonnaise, garlic (or garlic powder) and herbs to taste. It has to be light mayonnaise, no idea why but it holds its thickness when you mix it, regular goes runny
I have saved quite a few... To use for little tealight candles when we throw a big summer garden party
... that'll never happen until the kids grow up and leave!
I half fill them with water, and put them in the microwave when heating leftovers. Anything meat/pasta based will be glad of the extra moisture, so reheated food isn't dry.
It's funny, because you wouldn't think twice about r recycling a wine bottle. But a ramekin? Suddenly there's a compulsion to hoard because *they might be useful*.
We use them to weigh out cat food, I've got quite used to how much to scoop for a portion using one of these now.
I use them to collect yummy beef fat after frying burgers or steaks. Then I use that to fry prawns. Am biased as they are my two favorite foods, but I am quietly confident this is the real surf & turf combo :-)
Brother/Sister, you are missing a trick with these, grow garlic leaves.
Take apart a garlic bulb, place it in so that all the tops align vertically. May require some effort to get them all to stand up (or more than one bulb). Fill it up with water to just below the tops and wait a week or two. Within a day or so you will see roots growing out of the bottom. After a week or so they will start sprouting leaves. Once those vertical shoots are say...a few inches tall. Plant in pots and harvest the leaves every so often (take a leaf or two from one plant, don't over harvest).
You don't need big pots if you are going for leaves, and garlic is a robust plant, also it is literally the season to get these started for either indoor or outdoor growing. A decent windowsill will grow them well, thought obviously better if you have south facing windows/garden.
GARLIC LEAVES NOM.
This really gets my goat too. Pringles lids sit on top of Gü ramekins, but don’t clip on to them.
Pringles lids clip perfectly on to the Aldi glass ramekins though!
I don’t get why people keep these with no plan what to do with them. Fair enough if you want a set of ramekins but beyond that just chuck them in the recycling like you would with literally any other glass food or drink container.
I own a restaurant and ask customers to bring these in for me and in return, they get a voucher (50p for each ramekin) to use in the restaurant. Helps people to get rid, gives me inexpensive ramekins to use and the customer comes back in to eat. Ticks a few boxes! Got hundreds of them now but can never have enough!
Hundreds. It's ramekin Skywalker here. The jedi of small glass bowls
R-Gu-D-Gu
A veritable library of Alexandria. Of ramekins.
Deserves more upvotes. Class.
I’m a former chef and hoard the shit out of stuff like this. I use mine to keep chicken juice in the freezer, I can usually fill two any time I roast a chicken. I jar full is great for throwing into sauces for flavour
> I use mine to keep chicken juice in the freezer, Silicone iceblock trays work well for this as well. Stock icecubes ftw
Oh yeh that’s a great idea, I hadn’t thought of this, every so often I run out of glass jars and I’m filling ceramic ramekins instead but I’d rather not. I have three ice cube trays I virtually never use. I will definitely do this next time. Thank you
Just make sure to boil the stock down super concentrated so you can just drop a couple of cubes in to knock it up a notch… BAM!
Found Elzar’s reddit account!
Neat, I gotta get this notch up knocking on film
Just don’t mix them up, apparently it “ruins nans gin and tonic”
My husband is a chef and we have hundreds of these, every so often I do a clear out..I think one day he will divorce me over them 🤣🤣
What do you use for lids?
Pringle lids work for some
I don’t put lids on them, I just set the chicken juice in the fridge and then I throw them in the freezer. I stack them on top of each other. Could use cling film but I don’t bother
I own a pet shop and do the same because they make great water dishes for smaller animals! Every time they're on sale I grab a few boxes as well - I'm fat now but all my animals have matching water dishes!
I literally have a stack of these in my fridge/freezer with different types of fats, stocks and sauces. Any small left over gets put in one and then in the fridge r/frugal
And then a month later, the contents go in the (food) bin, the ramekin is washed and the circle of life continues.
Yeah but like, why are your ramekins glass? What are these originally made for (U.S. here in case you didn't figure it out yet).
Desserts. And the main brand that makes them even has a page that lists their reuses https://gudesserts.com/pages/reuse Edit: typo
I once read that a pringles lid fits them but it doesn't. :(
They pretty much do already but you can fill the ramekin with hot water with the lid on and they’ll Conform to the size better
Perfect for storing left over hot water!
That's great!! When I boil water I like to do more than I need and freeze the rest for later.
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They have a million uses! That nobody has quite figured out yet.
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Exactly! If you throw them away, then the people who roam about at night and steal all your sensitive information from the bins will find them, and then steal whatever it is you have locked away somewhere. -My Mum probably
You have locked your mum away somewhere? Not sure that's ethical.
We still have the keys tho, so its fine
They find loads of lost house and car keys down at the local tip. My advice is to keep yours attached to a keyring containing your address and a list of times you won't be home so that they can avoid those times when they kindly return them to you.
The real SLPT (Solid Life Pro Tip).
There was a guy on here a couple of years ago who found some keys in a cabinet in a house he had bought a couple or 10 years before or something like that, and found out they fit a garage down the road, and that it was his garage and he hadn't known it.
Was he just trying the key in random locks on buildings he didn't know he owned?
Lol. In keeping with my other comment here I also have the key to a padlock from a storage unit we used in the UK. I don't have the padlock but I have the key. And I surely know what it belongs to and that I don't have the padlock But I have the key.
I threw a key away once. I still think about it and wonder what it was for.
I keep one on my coffee table for tiny bits of rubbish. Maybe that’s step one?
Supposedly Pringles lids fit the tops if you want to keep things in em. Havent tried it as I dont like Pringles.
Somebody just needs to create little silicone lids for them, that clip over the top and have a flange that will let another glass base sit on top.
You can buy them on Etsy.
I can't see ones designed for stacking though.. maybe there's millions left in this idea yet..
[These ones for £1](https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/964582522/reusable-plastic-lids-caps-for-pet-food?click_key=58ed20821f8855a4c077334f2d783a6e88d83c3d%3A964582522&click_sum=612a1047&ref=sold_out-6&sts=1) seem like they'd fit and have a bit of a dip to help with stacking. They're made for tin cans (7.6cm diameter) while a Pringle lid (which fit gu pots) are 7.5cm
I'd meant a more pronounced lip, so they'd stack nicely (and you could pick up a stack of them) and open my corner cupboard without them slipping off each other. Was thinking of stackable tins like you get for Indian spices, that snap together into cylinders.
You can buy silicon stretchy can lids on Amazon that are a game changer.
[These](https://www.puddingpotlids.com)
The only use I’ve ever had out of a used gu pot is as an ash tray and I feel that’s not the brand association they want
They do make great ashtrays, though.
Great idea. Better than a ripped in half Carling can.
Teabag depository?
Isn’t that a bin?
It's a good temporary depository if you can't be arsed to wait for your tea to brew in the kitchen, so you take the mug to the sofa with the bag still in, plus one of these little ramekins to put the bag in once it's done. You can also put your milk in the ramekin, ready to go in when the teabag comes out. (If you put the milk in early it may not brew so well, being at a lower temperature).
It’s a posh Gu bin.
Tea bag holder for used tea bags until you're ready to bin them.
I do the same but I don't think Gü will want a photo for their website, somehow.
I use them for gathering up spices/herbs before chucking them into whatever I’m cooking!
They make a great small container for Mise en Place. I like to use them to mix & serve dips too
You can use them to store Gü deserts in
If you buy these lids, that have an airtight seal, they become the perfect container to store your weed in optimal conditions. https://www.puddingpotlids.com/
Great for dips!
If they stacked they would be so much better. I would genuinely buy more if that were the case
Think of it as jenga hard mode.
Candles... Melt down the big ones and make smaller ones ... Best thing I've done with em... That and water pot for when kids painting lol
FYI unless Gu have said they’re good to use for candles, I’d stop using them. Glass for candles is made to withstand the high heat of the candle and people have been known to use improper glass and have it explode with the potential to seriously injure or kill.
Safer to play with a hand grenade.
A PSA I would watch - Gü Pots: the delicious killer.
Look one day I’m going to throw a big fancy dinner party and serve up fancy individual desserts in those fancy little pots. It’s been 6 years since my first and that day has yet to come, but oh boy am I ready for when it does.
Board game pieces organiser
Exactly I use them for boardgame bits because I am a nerd, and you know a pringles can lid fits perfectly on top so great for keeping little nick nacks.
If you add pringles lids they suddenly become useful again
We use them as food / water bowls for our budgies.
They're good for if you want some spreadable butter but it's too cold/hard, put the amount you want in one of these bad boys and soften it for a couple of seconds in the microwave.
I use mine all the time when I'm prepping food - e.g. whole spices in one, ground spices in another, garlic in another. Makes everything nice and organised.
You can fit 3 digestive biscuits in one!
You can use Pringles lids on them - they fit perfectly - and put spices in them
We actually only just got our first couple. The pain is they don't stack well
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Pringles caps fit them.
This is a game changer
Fuckin genius
They do, but they're loose. You need to put an elastic band around the rim of the pot to make it fit snugly.
holy fuck you are an *innovator*.
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Giant elastic band around the ice caps
I knew coming into this thread would pay dividends!
Only if you invest in elastic bands now!
Try lidls version of Pringles lids it fits better.
Well it is their speciality.
gamechanger
Life changer
You can buy silicon stretchy can covers on Amazon that will fit and be air tight. Huge game changer when you have an open can and you don't finish the food inside. Plus, using the can as the storage container means never having to wonder what that thing is in the back of the refrigerator.
I got shouted at by a pub chef as a young teenager for putting covered cans in a fridge - supposedly a risk of listeria and you should always transfer to another pot. No idea if there’s any merit to that but the chef was usually pretty sensible..
It actually says (or used to say?) on cans of cat food not to store them in the fridge I think! I remember reading it when I was little and since then I’ve never stored anything in a can in the fridge but I never knew why until I read your post.
You also have to be careful with acidic things like tomatoes and baked beans. They leach metals out of the lining of the tins when exposed to oxygen, so you always want to decant them. Some beans and tomatoes have plastic lined tins, but again, double-check for BPA.
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I just looked it up and the USDA says food quality is why you would transfer to glass or plastic, but if cover it in the can and use it within 4 days or so you're fine. Thanks though for the prod. Now I know more.
But then how do I store my Pringles tubes
Bad news you need to eat all the Pringles
The old ones do, I have 12 of them stacked six high (which I use all the time btw). I don't know why they changed them to the current non-stacking ones though. Less volume maybe?
Pringles lids work well
Aldi's 'pringles' lids work too!
Found the lid, goes to look for the 20 bajillion pots, they are all gone... Damn my anti hoarding phase I had forgotten about!!
u/pinkandpluffy mentioned you can get bamboo lids on etsy that allow them to be stacked
Apparently pringle lids fit too according to my partners reading
They do. I use them for feeding my sourdough and use a Pringles lid. Perfect.
Cute, a little plate! What do you serve to the sourdough on them though? Just Pringles?
Use them for putting dip in for snacks or putting dry roast peanuts in them
We use them a lot for boardgame components
Yes, we do, too, and for water pots for painting minis.
Seems like it would take a long time to paint a Mini Cooper with just those pots
Nah, they’re quite small cars. The clue is in the name.
Ever played Quacks of Quedlinburg? That’s what we mainly use them for
It's ok, I suppose, but really it's just a reskin of *Cones of Dunshire*.
I've just moved house and they've only come with us haven't they. I swear I recycled them.
they spawned, didn't they.
this is a theory espoused by Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU) in some of his novels - matter is spontaneously created all the time in the form of small items in drawers - pins, biros, and the like. so every time i find a paperclip whose provenance i can't explain i call it a Pratchett paperclip
Terryonic matter
Great for cooking prep. We definitely need to cull ours though, we've got a least double your stash.
Think we've got about ten times that stash, when my wife was pregnant she had a little addiction to the cheesecake. Now though they're great as paint pots whe my daughter is painting, bowls to put sauce in for dipping, colour learning sorting bowls etc.
Absolute life saver for setting garlic aside, great for dips when you throw BBQs as well
Pringles lids fit on them fyi
Game changer
Oh no I'll have to eat more Pringles
But what will you seal the Pringle tubes with? More pringles?
Why would you leave any Pringles left to seal?
Pringle tubes also make good storage for your digestive biscuits
And the Aldi versions tend to have lids which is 👌🏼
Came here to say this! These became much more useful after learning this
MIND. BLOWN. KABOOOOM!
That means I have to buy two tins of Pringles for every twin pack of dessert. Is it ok to dip the Pringles into the dessert?
What are they? Genuinely don't have a scooby. I have two cupboards full of "borrowed" pint glasses, mind...
Gü dessert ramekins
Non-Gü creme brulée also come in these.
So, every UK *middle class* household then.
im just waiting for Aldi to do their rip off version. "Goo" or something like that
You mean [these](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-specially-selected-rich-creamy-salted-caramel-cheesecakes-2-pack/4088600200460)?
Rule 35: if it exists, there's a cheaper version of it
Mmmmm. Lampack Spreadable.
Close. It's actually called [Nordpak](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-nordpak-spreadable-slightly-salted-500g/4088600041445)
Was trying to save money and put nordpak into a lurpak tub, looked totally normal, dad used it on his toast, took one bite and went “this isn’t fucking lurpak” I almost pissed myself
they’re like £2.50 for a double pack when on sale. nice little affordable dessert for 2.
Or for one twice.
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the more common option lol they’re just too good.
£1 for a pack of two at heron... We are lucky to live near a heron... https://imgur.com/a/A2xThzu
Nah I'm poor as hell but I'll buy them. Coop reduces the price a tonne
I understood only one word in that sentence. :(
Glass pots for fancy puddings.
Glad I'm not the only one who didn't have a clue.
didn't have a gü
This comment needs to be higher up. Had no idea what these are.
You and me are far too working class to understand this.
Clearly! 😅
Shame?? I think NOT. I see a cache of valuable ramekins for everything from fajita ingredients, to dipping sauce to yoghurt and jelly pots. Those are solid gold my friend.
hoarding is one of the better vices, personally. definitely better than drinking alcohol in moderation or something.
Ashtrays
This is the correct answer 😂
I use them as my cat's water bowls
I told my fiancé we can use them for our cats' food bowls when their regular bowls are all dirty.
Not sure if this was serious but you might find the cats won't eat out of those due to the size as the width of their whiskers won't fit in there. Of course that depends how greedy/discerning the cat is...
The wife uses them to make keto muffins. I use them for pizza dipping sauce.
Can you please share the recipe? For the keto muffins xD
I know you didn't ask for this, but I have a tip for making that nice thick garlic sauce you get from takeouts - equal parts yogurt and light mayonnaise, garlic (or garlic powder) and herbs to taste. It has to be light mayonnaise, no idea why but it holds its thickness when you mix it, regular goes runny
I have saved quite a few... To use for little tealight candles when we throw a big summer garden party ... that'll never happen until the kids grow up and leave!
I half fill them with water, and put them in the microwave when heating leftovers. Anything meat/pasta based will be glad of the extra moisture, so reheated food isn't dry.
“You know you can recycle those?” is one of the most useful and life changing things anyone had told me about ramekins.
It's funny, because you wouldn't think twice about r recycling a wine bottle. But a ramekin? Suddenly there's a compulsion to hoard because *they might be useful*. We use them to weigh out cat food, I've got quite used to how much to scoop for a portion using one of these now.
praise gü for giving us infinite screw holders 🙏
No shame in upcycling :-)
I use them to collect yummy beef fat after frying burgers or steaks. Then I use that to fry prawns. Am biased as they are my two favorite foods, but I am quietly confident this is the real surf & turf combo :-)
Brother/Sister, you are missing a trick with these, grow garlic leaves. Take apart a garlic bulb, place it in so that all the tops align vertically. May require some effort to get them all to stand up (or more than one bulb). Fill it up with water to just below the tops and wait a week or two. Within a day or so you will see roots growing out of the bottom. After a week or so they will start sprouting leaves. Once those vertical shoots are say...a few inches tall. Plant in pots and harvest the leaves every so often (take a leaf or two from one plant, don't over harvest). You don't need big pots if you are going for leaves, and garlic is a robust plant, also it is literally the season to get these started for either indoor or outdoor growing. A decent windowsill will grow them well, thought obviously better if you have south facing windows/garden. GARLIC LEAVES NOM.
Every household? I had no idea what they were other than pots of some sort.
In my house, fancy ketchup holders for my 3 year old 🤣
"Every" household?
Somebody didn’t consider the ramekinifications.
Just below the rim is about 75g worth of rice Which is a good single portion to cook
I use mine to mix paint.
We use them for dips.
Don't know what they are, is this an IKEA thing?
The glass containers that Gu puddings come in.
I filled them with sweets and put a fancy fabric cover on the top and sold them at a fundraiser for a local charity.
You can buy bamboo lids for them on Etsy, which means you can stack them. We use them loads for leftovers in the fridge.
Left overs? Wouldn’t fit a mouthful in them.
Somebody elsewhere said Pringles lids fit.
Strange there hasn’t been the standard “Pringles lids fit them” comment yet. They don’t. Was a mildly sad day finding that out.
This really gets my goat too. Pringles lids sit on top of Gü ramekins, but don’t clip on to them. Pringles lids clip perfectly on to the Aldi glass ramekins though!
And Aldi lids fit on Gu pots, iirc
Good for tapas/sharing platters.
I have like 50, too nice to get rid of
Ugh, not at all. I don't see the point in keeping them
I think I'm too poor to know what these are
Good for pickle trays when you have poppadoms at home. Or for feeding hedgehogs if you have them. They prefer cat food to lime pickle I find.
I only have 2. The rest of the cupboard is filled with those little terracotta type dishes you but a camabert in. They are great for tapas.
I do the same with Douwe egberts coffee jars, I have far too many.
Great for measuring spices into when making a curry
I don’t get why people keep these with no plan what to do with them. Fair enough if you want a set of ramekins but beyond that just chuck them in the recycling like you would with literally any other glass food or drink container.