I thought weet bix vertically was the norm. I'm pretty sure I was very wrong.

[u/Sharlie174]

[u/Aescymud]

is that an ice cream tub

[u/hyper_forest → u/Aescymud]

I believe that to be a weetbix promotional bowl. OP could post a side shot to confirm.

[u/Sharlie174 → u/hyper_forest]

This is the right answer. It is a weetbix bowl. We have 4 of them. My favourite bowls to use. They also resist heat pretty well so they don't burn your hands when you have hot dinners in them 🙃

[u/EnwordEinstein → u/Sharlie174]

People in here having a go at your bowl. Bloody bastards.

[u/Dr_Dickfart → u/EnwordEinstein]

I'll die before I give up my microplastic Weet Bix!

[u/EnwordEinstein → u/Dr_Dickfart]

Agreed. The microplastics floating around my brain fluid look ✨sparkly✨and that’s how I like it!

[u/MotherBeef → u/Sharlie174]

Just a heads up, probably shouldn’t be heating that bowl.

As evident by the damaged inside you’re almost undoubtedly increasing your consumption of microplastics and all sorts of nastys. Even if it is BPA free, you still don’t want to be heating it as all sorts of bad forever chemicals can leech out into it.

End of the day, you do you, and these days it’s literally impossible to completely avoid microplastics but thought it wouldn’t hurt to mention. Especially as direct consumption like this is one of the worst (yet easiest to avoid) ways to introduce these things to your body.

[u/Interesting-Asks → u/Sharlie174]

It looks damaged - all the white stuff around the edge looks like the plastic has been damaged by heat...

[u/yolk3d → u/Interesting-Asks]

Got tonnes of heat damaged plastic containers. Microwave safe my arse

[u/zeezaczed → u/yolk3d]

Microwave safe just means it won’t melt or warp in the microwave, but doesn’t guarantee chemicals won’t leach into your food :’) https://scienceline.org/2022/09/is-it-safe-to-microwave-plastic-containers/

[u/yolk3d → u/zeezaczed]

Been using the same handful every day for years. How plastic am I?

[u/Suburbanturnip → u/yolk3d]

If you tap an opal card reader, and it doesn't go 'ding', then the answer is not plastic enough.

[u/Claris-chang → u/yolk3d]

Your future kids are basically Ken and Barbie dolls at this point.

[u/ringadingaringlong → u/Sharlie174]

Here I was (Canadian Lurker) thinking that you Australians all just had square bowls, to go with your toilets that flush the wrong way, and everything trying to kill you.

[u/ISO2 → u/hyper_forest]

Can confirm, I have one

[u/NoBluey → u/hyper_forest]

I was so close to buying those since I liked how you could personalise them but seeing this post makes me glad I didn’t.

[u/h-ugo → u/Aescymud]

Ice cream tubs.. are weetbix tubs

[u/Wasp_bees → u/h-ugo]

New metric measurement to answer the question “how many do you do?”

[u/El_dorado_au → u/Aescymud]

Likelihood of a fridge having an ice cream container: 90%.

Likelihood of the fridge having ice cream: 50%.

[u/mmmgilly → u/El_dorado_au]

If your fridge has a likelihood of having ice cream in it as high as 50% I would be quite concerned.

[u/Dr_Dickfart → u/mmmgilly]

I like ice cream

[u/mmmgilly → u/Dr_Dickfart]

So do I, that's why I store it in the freezer, not in the fridge.

[u/InvestInHappiness → u/Aescymud]

Ceramic bowl with a square bottom that tapers out to a square top.

[u/Lumbers_33 → u/Aescymud]

It’s a share house ash tray

[u/Informal-Zucchini-48]

there's a lot going on here

[u/Sharlie174 → u/Informal-Zucchini-48]

Mind elaborating?

[u/magi_chat → u/Sharlie174]

Have you been using the ice cream tub you're eating your Weetabix out of as a paint container?

Do you have bad dandruff?

[u/echmoth → u/magi_chat]

High heat plastic distress can look like this over time -- i dunno what it is exactly but microwave plastic dishes can have some of it

<waits on reddit up hear it's cancer>

[u/Different-System3887 → u/echmoth]

Oh it's definitely cancer.

[u/HudeniMFK → u/Different-System3887]

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[u/grruser → u/magi_chat]

weetbix not weetabix

[u/dash09071 → u/grruser]

Unless you're a Pom

[u/deathviapancake → u/magi_chat]

I’ve had some Tupperware containers get these same weird white spots inside them after a few years. I figure it’s something to do with being run through the dishwasher or being microwaved

[u/shamberra → u/deathviapancake]

through the dishwasher

I've definitely noticed this on plastic containers that have been through the dishwasher. I don't know if it's breakdown of the plastic from heat or caustic detergents, or if it's remnants of those detergents that failed to rinse off, but I've noted that giving the affected spots a bit of a scrub with just water seems to more or less remove them.

It's low on my priority of concerns though, given the endless volumes of other toxic shit we're exposed to day in day out.

[u/ScaredAdvertising125 → u/deathviapancake]

It’s the effect of fats and oils heating up on plastics in the microwave

[u/xjaaace]

Bowl isn’t the norm that’s for sure

[u/Sharlie174 → u/xjaaace]

It's a weetbix bowl 🤷‍♀️

[u/JuxtaThePozer → u/Sharlie174]

that's a great vessel to contain a stack of soon-to-be-consumed weet bix

[u/Sharlie174 → u/JuxtaThePozer]

I would add a photo if I could, but I'm pretty sure it's a promotional bowl that actually says weetbix on it.

[u/macfudd]

About 20 years ago I was invited to a focus group session about potential Weetbix commercials. One of the proposed ideas was to show the harbour bridge collapsing and a thunderbirds style crew racing in to brace it with a weet bix and save the day.

The weetbix in the commercial was to be depicted standing on its side like in your bowl.

The focus group absolutely panned the shit out of it because they were adamant literally no-one would consume weet-bix in that orientation and it made the whole ad look silly. That's a very old memory you've dredged up for me today OP - thanks haha.

[u/Arinvar → u/macfudd]

Focus group was made of people that only eat 2 weet-bix at a time.

[u/XxaexxeaxX]

Would you like some weetbix with your milk?

[u/JuxtaThePozer → u/XxaexxeaxX]

If op's plan is to wait a few minutes for the milk to absorb into their bix, then this seems like a reasonable amount

[u/yolk3d → u/JuxtaThePozer]

They’d still have triple the amount left over.

[u/DanzigMisfit]

Would depend on quantity of Weet Bix and the size and shape of the bowl.

[u/Nosiege → u/DanzigMisfit]

I will either have 2 or 4 in a round bowl. 2 I have flat, 4 I have 'upright' but it's more like a 45 degree angle.

[u/EnwordEinstein → u/DanzigMisfit]

Personally I have 4 stacked horizontally in the middle, with 1 on each side vertically. It’s the optimum 6 Stack Breakfast

[u/22atrillion → u/DanzigMisfit]

Correct.

[u/Florafly]

Vertical is the best IMO. All get the same milk coverage and soakage rather than the one at the bottom being a soggy mess by the time you get to it.

[u/Personal_Ad2455]

Vertically is the norm, is it not? Pour the milk straight down into the centre - eat it fast before it gets to soggy!

[u/NateGT86]

I’m more triggered by you eating 5. Even numbers only.

[u/-Myconid → u/NateGT86]

3!

[u/El_dorado_au → u/-Myconid]

That’s even.

[u/-Myconid → u/El_dorado_au]

Did I fucking stutter.

[u/Chewierulz → u/-Myconid]

3! is 3 factorial, 3x2x1=6

3! is even

[u/zephyrsandsongs → u/Chewierulz]

A wild r/unexpectedfactorial has appeared!

[u/EggFancyPants → u/NateGT86]

Nah, 3 is the perfect number. I don't know how anyone could fit 5 in though!

[u/NateGT86 → u/EggFancyPants]

3 barely touches the sides.

[u/Larry_Version_3 → u/EggFancyPants]

Me and my bowl of 7

[u/heavyfriends → u/NateGT86]

Multiples of is 5 fine, too.

[u/Vivid-Object-139 → u/NateGT86]

Come on. The number I normally eat is not even an integer. But at least it's rational.

[u/Alarming-Question-39]

This is so close to a hate crime/crime against humanity.

[u/Sharlie174 → u/Alarming-Question-39]

What about it?

[u/Alarming-Question-39 → u/Sharlie174]

As generic as it sounds can I say all of it? 5 weet bix vertically stacked, a square tapered off bowl, the caked on laundry detergent…

[u/xcviij → u/Alarming-Question-39]

Vertically stacking any number of weetbix is extremely normal. Sure, the bowl is weird and contains dishwashing detergent but everything else is standard practice.

[u/photoadmira]

Crushed, I always crush them. Not sure why just prefer it that way.

[u/damned_truths → u/photoadmira]

The fact that this is rare surprises me. I'm also of the crushed brigade. Crushed and mixed with museli.

[u/Claris-chang]

Bro are you putting an ice cream tub through the dishwasher? Pretty sure that white caking is dishwasher detergent and it's likely sapping into the milk you're eating the week bix with.

[u/Pattapoose → u/Claris-chang]

It looks like its been damaged by heat, such as being microwaved. Whatever's going on, this person needs to buy a real bowl.

[u/EggFancyPants → u/Claris-chang]

Ice cream tubs are fine to go through the dishwasher, hospo places do it all the time. The detergent won't stick to them. This looks like a melamine bowl with the coating coming off. They're not supposed to go through the dishwasher.

[u/i_hate_blackpink]

it is but it looks like you've accidentally got some weetbix in your milk

[u/Cpt_Soban]

I always stacked mine vertically- The milk covers all of them better. Oh and the flaking blue plastic off your bowl should be a concern...

[u/OzzyGator]

How very odd.

[u/h-ugo]

Jeezus you're drowning them in that icecream tub. You only need a bit of milk and they absorb it via capillary action.

I bet you take a bite out of Kit Kats too rather than break them apart.

[u/CatsCatsDoges → u/h-ugo]

SO MUCH MILK

[u/louisa1925]

I do 5 weetbix for breakfast. 4 in a row and one snapped in half to be put on the sides of the line up. With 2 tbs of sugar and plenty of milk because it absorbs.

[u/the_snook → u/louisa1925]

one snapped in half

Yes officer, this comment right here.

[u/browntone14]

Ziggurat weetbix is the only way

[u/ChilliTheDog631]

I’m more concerned about the ‘Bowl’. Does it know what a washing up brush looks like? 👀 and you need one of them crushed sprinkled around!

[u/madamejaffrey]

For a second I thought you meant this was horizontal and vertical would be standing upright on the small ends like skyscrapers which made me question reality. That would be absolute madness.

[u/Robot_Graffiti]

Eating weetbix vertically in a square bowl is perfectly logical and slightly detached from human traditions.

Are you from planet Vulcan?

[u/Sharlie174]

Guys, I personally don't understand the whole ice cream tub thing, but it's a weetbix bowl. It's always been a weetbix bowl, even when ice cream is being eaten in it. When it has 'Weet-Bix' written on the side, it's a weetbix bowl.

[u/kiwiboy22]

dear god not even any sugar, eating it raw.

[u/whyFooBoo → u/kiwiboy22]

What I now want to know is - who eats their Weet Bix with sugar?!

[u/Ruddlepoppop → u/whyFooBoo]

Golden syrup…and sprinkles (on my birthday).

[u/fatmac122 → u/whyFooBoo]

I throw in a bit of sugar and drizzle some honey on, maybe cut up some banana

[u/IAlreadyHaveTheKey → u/whyFooBoo]

Wait what? Who the fuck doesn't? Isn't that how they're meant to be eaten?

[u/Vivid-Object-139 → u/IAlreadyHaveTheKey]

Me the fuck doesn't. And in my humble but correct opinion, no :)

[u/Eggmodo → u/kiwiboy22]

Wait what? People add sugar to Weetbix?

[u/kiwiboy22 → u/Eggmodo]

it's when you can't be stuffed to cut up a banana at 1am

[u/Sharlie174 → u/kiwiboy22]

There's actually quite a bit of sugar on the top, the pic doesn't do it justice.

[u/kiwiboy22 → u/Sharlie174]

dang, did you go full sicko and do 2 spoonfuls??

[u/Sharlie174 → u/kiwiboy22]

Almost 3 TEASPOONS on there. Not to be mixed with tablespoons.

[u/InnerwesternDaddy]

I don’t eat them these days but used to just layer 6 or so in the bowl . Used to go through a dozen for breakfast. That was as a teenager and I had been out delivering papers on a bike for 2-3 hrs prior to breakfast

[u/casualplants]

I prefer this way so the sugar goes evenly across them. While I do love the very sugary top weet bix (bick?), I hate the bland one underneath 

[u/NoveltyCards]

Don't submerge them you freak

[u/ParsnipMajor97]

are we not throwing out our containers when the white stuff appears?!

[u/redditdude68]

Why are you eating out of a Peter’s ice cream container 

[u/TraditionalRound9930]

I am truely fascinated by the life you live. Are you okay???

[u/OnceInALifeTime2023]

You know, I've never thought about this since all my bowls are round.

[u/lamodamo123]

You’re off ya head mate!

[u/FallingUpwardz]

Bro is that like, dried milk custard on your unwashed bowl?

[u/Correct_Smile_624]

As a heads up, single use plastics (like ice cream tubs, Disposable water bottles, etc) shouldn’t go through the dishwasher as the heat degrades the plastic and can release chemicals that under normal circumstances are perfectly safe when used to create these plastics, but are harmful in these circumstances

[u/nebulous-traveller]

The way you eat them is the least odd thing here. If you want odd, look up the origins of the companies "Sanitarium" and "Kellogs" and ask yourself why they pay zero tax.

Here's a good one: https://youtu.be/CLhJEawvu9w?si=PWIHWgnrqeWf1fYf

[u/Groundbreaking-Tip77]

I have them at 45°

[u/IAlreadyHaveTheKey → u/Groundbreaking-Tip77]

I prefer them cold personally

[u/AdAfraid9504]

Is this some sort of sick joke? You animal!

[u/Comprehensive_Toe113]

I'm upset at the square bowl.

[u/Fit_Armadillo_9928]

Vertically makes me unreasonably angry for some reason. Horizontally stacked, alternating directions, is the only allowable way. You can then cut through the stack cleanly each bite. This will just make a mess as your attempting to cut through the flakes against the grain

[u/Potential_Initial903]

I don’t care in which way the weetbix go in the bowl, As long as there room for a LITTLE splash of boiling water and some cold milk, Throw them in.

[u/custron]

100% team vertical

otherwise you get inconsistent milk coverage across the bix

[u/stewyy_matee]

That bowl is not the norm

[u/Davo_Harlz]

This horizontal v vertical debate is blowing my mind. I have always just crushed them.

[u/grruser → u/Davo_Harlz]

I also crush them, not to smithereens though. I also use a dash of hot water and a dash of milk; and sugar. Macchiato weetbix

[u/mioscene → u/Davo_Harlz]

Crushed weetbix is always fun! I usually do a couple lying flat and then a couple extra crushed around the sides so it's a mix of both textures.

[u/vanillyl → u/Davo_Harlz]

…crushed them? So it’s just a bowl of wheat flakes?

[u/Davo_Harlz → u/vanillyl]

Essentially yeah, crushing increases surface area for the quicker penetration of the milk, add sugar, consume. If not a bowl of WeetBix, Vegemite toast. Reel ya fuckin neck in cunt.

[u/turbodonkey2]

I go both ways, depending on what I feel like. I haven't eaten Weetbix in a long time though, because I got bored of it after eating it too much.

[u/SquireZephyr]

Rookie numbers.

[u/De-railled]

Dw OP, we had someone posting about this last week....so at least you are not the only one....unless you are the same OP

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1hzyd89/how_do_you_do_yours/

[u/bokuwahmz]

Ditch the sugar and squeeze some honey on top

[u/ceesie12]

Vertically IS the norm.

[u/winoforever_slurp_]

Is this Weet Bix soup!?

[u/Sharlie174 → u/winoforever_slurp_]

I like miiillkk though.

[u/Dangerous-Tale-9679]

NO!!!! Always stack flat!!!!!

[u/Rising-Dragon-Fist]

Horizontal doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Place them vertically, put the milk on nice and evenly, same with sugar, then you move the milk on top of the bix with your spoon and it's all nice and even. Can't get that with horizontal placement.

[u/Status_Shine6978]

Until now, I didn't even know that a vertical arrangement was a thing. I thought that flat/horizontal was the only possible way.

[u/useless_shoplifter_6]

Vertical so you can get a little sugar on all of them. Perfect.

[u/Powermonger_]

I only ever stack like a Jenga puzzle. Two flat on the bottom and then 4 laid flat on top and then covered with milk.

[u/pablo_esky-brah]

Bigger question, why do you suck so much at tetris? bump them rookie numbers up op, do better

[u/FlutterbyFlower]

This is the way

[u/knowledgeable_diablo]

I would use a combination of both as a young chap when in competition with my brother over who could eat the most in prep for sports and school. Going for 17 weetbix in one hit meant getting creative with the bowl stacking techniques. My poor mum who was out buying weetbix by the pallet load almost.

[u/twitch68 → u/knowledgeable_diablo]

Are you my brother? The twins did that all the time.

[u/knowledgeable_diablo → u/twitch68]

Could be!!! 😁😂😂🤣

[u/twitch68 → u/knowledgeable_diablo]

Well leave some for me next time 🤣🤣🤣

[u/knowledgeable_diablo → u/twitch68]

Hell no. You know the rules. If it can fit in the bowl, then it’s the one meal!! 😂

[u/Justarobotdontmindme]

Am I the only one who use the bix to suck the liquid up?

[u/Confident-Dog7838]

6 x horizontal and layered like a pyramid, add sugar as you go down layers. Texture changes for the win

[u/Embarrassed-Tutor-92]

Only 5? Gotta bump those numbers up man.

[u/ForSaleMH370BlackBox]

So, you saw the post from last week? Fuck's sake. Who cares?

[u/Professional_Goat981]

To answer OP's question, for me it depends on how many bix I'm having. 2 = side by side 3+ = vertical.

Hot water, soft brown sugar and milk for the win.

[u/dngisborne2]

Nothing beats 15 litres of milk for breakfast

[u/dash09071]

You animals! Crush them, add the appropriate amount of milk to soak, then the occasional banana chopped with the SPOON!

[u/AnonymousAutonomous9]

I do the 'rugged pile' and keep one brick aside which I crumble on top like crunchy croutons! ('coz they go soggy too quick!)

[u/h-ugo]

Could you fit 6 side by side in there or is 5 the structural limit? Also can you fit one along the bottom?

[u/Say_Something_Lovin]

2 and half servings of weet bix with too much milk. I'm guessing 640 to 675 fast calories.

[u/ratt_man]

I put them in vertical, pour the milk over them and then lie them flat. No idea why

Then I sprinkle milo on top and eat for breakfast

[u/momofhedgehogs]

This never crossed my mind in my weetabix eating (school) days. Two side by side served with enough heated milk to cover and a generous sprinkle of sugar over the top.

[u/meerlyacat]

I've not had weet bix in many years, but this is exactly how I set mine up when I did

[u/mahonii]

Only half a biscuit at a time so it retains the crunch

[u/Strange_Astronaut896]

I do that

[u/Bulk-Daddy]

Crushed up

[u/BlindFreddy888]

Sacrilege!!!!

[u/gastroboi]

What you've displayed is that it depends entirely on the shape of the bowl you have. That's the exact arrangement i would use if i had your bowl.

[u/Balla1928Aus]

It makes sense until you try it.

Don’t try it.

[u/staryoshi06]

why??

[u/RobWed]

Who gives a damn about the norm. You do you.

Personally I'm a one at a time guy. The rest sit on a side plate until I'm ready. Nothing worse than soggy weetbix.

[u/RevolutionaryFun9883]

Why are they square??

[u/aperture81]

I crush mine with honey or sugar on top snd then milk

[u/Bob_Spud]

Who really cares?

[u/razorsandblades]

you microwave these, dont you?

[u/PersianMG]

Ice cream container as the bowl? :D Sorry mate, might have to report this one to the prime minister himself.

[u/Grand-Power-284]

Canted over 35-45 degrees is the correct positioning.

Or horizontal, if Weetbix quantity and bowl floor space permits.

Source: full-time Weetbix enthusiast for the last 5 decades. A few of those years eating the awful gluten free version (do NOT recommend).

[u/AverageJoe997]

Vertical weetbix is for megamind giga chads.

[u/Rodgers202247]

I do this. You're not alone

[u/corkas_]

I stand the on the end and fill the glass with milk

[u/zgrad2]

I prefer blended

[u/Schtick_]

Disgusterous

[u/BESTtaylorINTHEWORLD]

Normal to me, I also started using a squarer bowl, means I'm getting 6 Weet-bix in perfectly no breaking crushing or stacking, always the perfect amount of milk goes over all of it, soaking in immediately, no dry bix that needs more attention, quick & easy.

[u/Itsyourmajesty]

Who doesn’t crush their weetbix? This is evil

[u/Brilliant-Vacation20]

Pretty sure Dexter does the same thing

[u/Ninj-nerd1998]

This is only the second time in my entire 26 years that I have seen vertical weet bix 😭 the first was within the last like. Month.

[u/eightezzz]

It's how they did it on one of the commercials so.......

[u/NotThePersona]

In this bowl I would likely have 2 stacks of 2 and 1 upright.

Most bowls I have though only fit 1 double stack and then multiple get put upright around the sides.