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 👍☺️
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..
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.
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
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 :)
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.
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...
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
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!
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.
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'.
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😉.
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
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'.
@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. 💪🏼😎
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.
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.
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 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 😊
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.
"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).
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.
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%
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One needs to scrub the dirt of oneself, thoroughly. For hygiene, the whole body with the "washandje" literally "wash-hand" dutch meaning little wash-hand.
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.
I'm dutch, we have a lot of washandjes at home, and I can confirm! We do not use them for washing... not our family at least... we use them almost never actually, only sometimes when you hurt yourself or something instead of putting ice on it we do cold water with the washandje and just put it on the spot you hurt yourself...
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.
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.
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.
You may refuse to believe it, but I use a washandje every day. 😀 I like how Dutch this word is too. “Washandje” literal translation: “little washing hand”. By the way, a washandje is NOT used to wash your hands. It is used to wash your face or your body.
😂 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 advantage of washing yourself with a washandje is that you have easier reach on your back, because you can use both sides of your hands to wash your back.
Washandje has no isolation to use it for the oven. It is much thinner. It is the same material as a normal towel. So that doesn't work against the heat. Oven gloves are much thicker and we also have that here ofcourse.
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.
Well I can honestly say I was not expecting people to be that confused by a simple washandje. Now I dont know of anyone who still uses them but I wassnt expecting it to be that alien to foreigners.
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 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.
A washandje is not to wash your hands with. It's to put your hand in and wash your body with. Use it as a potholder and you'll burn your hands. It's cotton. The apple corer is useful for some Dutch pastries. One is an entire apple wrapped in puff pastry (appelbol) and the other a thick slice in dough fried (appelbeignet). You want to keep the apple whole. Our favorite desert, vla, would come in bottles. Believe you me that we used bottle lickers when we were kids. Also our egg nog ( advocaat) comes in bottles. It's thick so a bottle licker might scrape out an entire extra portion.
If you think of it, a washandje is more environmental friendly to use. When you use a washandje you don't have to use scrublotions because the washandje is doing exactly that. Scrublotions in the Netherlands became popular only when people didn't want to use the washandje anymore.
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
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
I use welding gloves in the kitchen, the most practical oven mittens in the world. a bathroom is not a toilet. my mom used it to wash me but she did not use it to wash her self and neither did I :P not to wash your hands tho.
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.
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
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
The best thing of this video ? Your cat ! Gosh, what a cuty. I'm a cat person myself, have always had a cat. Cat's are the best. Oh and the video was nice too. It took me until watching the original video a while back to learn that we, the Dutch, have a joint roller. Obviously I'm not from Amsterdam, where it's probably a known gadget. But then again, only 3% of the Dutch population smokes joints and only 40% of that 3% smokes it regularly. Meaning, around 96% of the total population doesn't smoke weed.
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!