When you place your carrots etc into the supplied clear bags, do you knot the end? Does this make the bag heavier? Are you paying for the bag or the carrots? Time for my tablets I think!!!!
2007-01-31 00:06:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Won't matter if knotted or not. The bag weighs less than a fraction of an ounce. You could buy 50 of them bags and won't weigh an ounce. So in effect you are probably paying a penny for about every 50 you use.
2007-01-31 00:14:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does not make it heavier. It's a simple question of matter, and the same amount of matter is present as was before you tied it, it's just occupying less space, so the weight is less distributed. That's what made you think it might be heavier.
I think they consider the bag negligible, so you pay for both, but mostly for the carrots.
And, yes, I do knot the ends.
2007-01-31 00:18:25 · answer #2 · answered by flamingopink 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends where you shop. Sometimes theres an assistant who weighs them + they usually have a tape machine gadget, which seals the bag.
But if you take the bag to the main checkout+ they weigh them, knotting the bag wont make it heavier. The bags are really for your convieniance, so you dont have potatoes + apples etc rolling all over your trolley or bag. If you bought 1 onion or lemon, for example, you dont really need a bag...do u? Hmm?
2007-01-31 00:38:54 · answer #3 · answered by msj2uk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knotting it won't make it heavier, it's the same bag. And I leave the end of the bag open. That way when I get home I can just pop them in the crisper and they get air so the condensation in a sealed bag won't make them rot faster.
2007-01-31 01:27:52 · answer #4 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its proven that it is .2457 of an ounce heavier in the Northern Hemosphere when tied with the common square knot. In the Southern Hemosphere it is actually .2457 of an ounce lighter. This is due to the correllian effect. Like commode water swirling clockwise and counterclockwise.
2007-01-31 00:34:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea but stop using these bags immediately as you are destroying the planet!! - Time for my tablets too!!
EDIT:
wofnw I am only joking - whenever people mention bags and carriers someone has a rant and I just wanted to be the 1st one - I use these bags also
2007-01-31 00:15:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bags weigh practically nothing but what they do weigh will not be affected by whether they are knotted or not. If you're worried about spend on bags...don't use one at all
2007-01-31 00:18:57 · answer #7 · answered by A Nonymiss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha hahahahahaha, I told my mother years ago that it weighed more knotted and she still tells the checkout girls off if they knot the bags! rofl
She also picks all the tops of the tomatos and pulls stalks out of mushrooms - she is a cheapskate!
2007-01-31 05:18:59 · answer #8 · answered by mrssandii1982 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - it makes no difference whether you knot the top of the bag or not.
2007-01-31 00:18:46 · answer #9 · answered by Chris W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't even begin to understand why it would be. Who said that matter cannot be created or destroyed?
2007-02-01 01:19:59 · answer #10 · answered by Professor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋