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New ketchup cap invention solves the watery ketchup problem

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"I love when my French fries get doused in that watery liquid that squirts from the unshaken ketchup bottle" ... said no one, ever.

You’ve been there. We all have.

Ketchup is calling to be united with your hot tasty French fries, but instead you end up spraying them with that watery, runny goop that builds up in the bottle if you forget to shake. Result? The soggiest of fries. Ew.

But your soggy fry nightmare may very well be over.

Two students from Liberty North High School in Missouri, US, may have found the solution to our ketchup dilemma.

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“Wet bread is gross,” the boys agreed while discussing how annoying it is to squirt ketchup onto your hotdog and it’s ruined by that watery ketchup abomination.

So they have created a ketchup bottle cap that is brilliantly designed to get your thick, smooth ketchup paste out, and keep that gross liquid stuff in.

As part of the Project Lead the Way program at their school, Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson spent about a week sketching out ideas for their ketchup quandary.

Eventually they developed their idea after testing out different approaches to keep the liquid from exiting the bottle. They settled on a mushroom-shaped funnel attached to the cap that forces the ketchup out while keeping the water in.

They then brought their idea to life using a 3D printer.

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And while their product works great and actually keeps the water from coming out, they are already finding the product has its flaws.

Once the water separates from the ketchup, it stays in the bottom piece of the cap, and eventually will leak out into the rest of the bottle.

“I have actually been made fun of for my consumption of ketchup,” Thompson said, while his co-creator Richards laughed stating that is the reason his hair is red.

It seems these two really know their stuff about ketchup and once they iron out the kinks of this little gadget, Heinz might really want to approach these two ketchup cap inventors.

Until then, two words of advice: Always shake!

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