2006-09-04 03:09:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
I think Guiness created the first 'widget' it is a plastic device or varying different types depending on how different manufacturers have tried to acheive the same effect.
Its main aim is to give a pored can of beer, the same head as you would if it was pulled from a pump in a pub.
Remember beers like Boddingtons before widgets?
2006-09-04 03:13:42 · answer #1 · answered by 6 hail marys 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Widget (beer)
The "floating widget" found in cans of beer is a hollow sphere, 3 cm in diameter. The can is pressurised by adding liquid nitrogen, which vaporises and expands in volume after the can is sealed, forcing gas and beer into the widget's hollow interior through a tiny hole. When the can is opened, the pressure in the can drops, causing the pressurised gas and beer inside the widget to jet out from the hole. This agitation on the surrounding beer releases nitrogen that is dissolved in the beer, creating a creamy head inside the can. This imitates the foamy head created when pouring draught beer.
Widget (computing)
In computer programming, a widget (or control) is an interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. Widgets are sometimes qualified as virtual to distinguish them from their physical counterparts, e.g. virtual buttons that can be clicked with a mouse cursor, vs. physical buttons that can be pressed with a finger.
2006-09-04 10:19:00 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Clueless 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are little hollow devices installed by bitter manufacturers to store nitrogen when the beer is compressed into the can. When the can is open the nitrogen is released and creates a nice frothy head on your pint (NICE!)
Other things are computer programs, placeholders, even a male gremlin is called a Widget according to roald Dahl (ha ha ha)
2006-09-08 09:55:15 · answer #3 · answered by TT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Widgets you find them in beer cans
2006-09-04 10:17:45 · answer #4 · answered by scott j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
plastic things which make beer, ie Guiness get a good head when in a can. As far as i know they filter the liquid through as the widget drops
2006-09-04 10:13:50 · answer #5 · answered by poli_b2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The widget is an imaginary thing, it could be anything.
The concept has been somewhat spoiled by brewers hijacking the name and using it to describe a gadget that makes canned beer frothy.
2006-09-04 10:21:21 · answer #6 · answered by boracic1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Widgets are a whoel number of things, used long before beer cans !
Anything you like, normally small, part of something else and used while assembling something
A bit like a doofer or thingy
2006-09-04 10:18:11 · answer #7 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
widg·et (wjt) KEY
NOUN:
A small mechanical device or control; a gadget.
An unnamed or hypothetical manufactured article.
2006-09-04 10:18:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In box applicators that allow better coverage of angel dust on fairy wings, that's what!
2006-09-04 10:24:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
plastic things in cans of beer
2006-09-04 10:14:43 · answer #10 · answered by The Way 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋