Might be for airflow to stop it going glug glug glug?

When you empty it through the bottom hole, it draws air in through the top hole.

One for soy sauce to come out, another for air to enter the bottle. It helps keeps the "flow" smooth.

You can hold the tip of your finger on the upper one and can thus control the flow by blocking the airflow.

I do this when putting it onto wings. This way I can apply it individually rather than splashing it all over.

That sounds rather unhygenic considering that you can't tell which side someone has put their dirty finger on.

Potenttially so - just doen't consider me as the only user of said bottle. Also, it might be a bit salty environment for bacteria.

in restaurants I’ve always wiped the spout first just in case this has happened

Please don’t put your fingers on the holes of public dispensers, that’s just fucking disgusting for everyone else. You can pull bacteria back into the container, but it also just makes the hole dirty regardless.

I love that design. So utilitarian, so pretty.

With what? Do they provide antibacterial wipes?

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You might like to know that those dispensers are likely never washed. Same with any condiment containers in any restaurant, at the most occasionally wiped down with a dirty rag.

Don't we all...

Glug glug 9000?

We actually washed ours on a regular schedule when I worked at a hibachi place.

If you think that's gross, I've seen baby roaches in the parmesan cheese shaker that's on a pizza hut table before. Any of the condiments out on a table at a restaurant are most likely a wee bit questionable. Once I left my last food service job, I made sure to tip better, and rarely went to restaurants for a long time.

This sounds no more reassuring than the guy admitting to putting his dirty finger on restaurant dispensers.

The other one's for left-handed people.

Assassin's soy bottle?

For home use sure, not for public dispensers, and yes I avoid them when possible. It’s shitty for the environment, but I’ll get ketchup packages instead for example. Some of my family is immuno compromised, and it’s hard enough without people treating public stuff like it’s their own.

This sounds like the most logical answer.

Yeah the back of many restaurants make me not want to go back there. I used to do inspections for strip mall type places. All access. Mice droppings above ceiling tiles are far too frequent.

Yep, that’s why I use packets when I can, even though they aren’t the best for the environment. People need to stop treating public stuff like it’s their own personal crap.

Or drop an alka-seltzer tablet in there, and sauce up two dishes at once? :D

I’ve been to restaurants where they collect and wash the condiment dispensers every day.

This sounds like the most logical answer

with a napkin

doesn’t kill bacteria but kills cooties

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Yeah it's the same reason your mom had to punch a second hole at the top of the Juicy Juice can before she could pour it into your sippy cup.

I agree with the other responses. The thought of someone's finger there is rather unpleasant. But then again: you can never know who sat on your table before you. Could be a family with small children - the sticky ones who touch and lick everything. :D

One should trust the own body to protect himself from germs. Or bring wet wipes with you.

You don't know they haven't just washed their hands. In fact, since they're about to eat, it's likely they did. Especially since they specified wings, which are finger food. Are you saying you eat with dirty fingers? It's never occurred to me to use the airhole to control the flow, and I haven't eaten in a restaurant for several years, but I'm aware other people have touched any food I didn't cook myself and it doesn't put me off.

Thankfully I've had my cootie shot.

You don’t know they haven’t just washed their hands. In fact, since they’re about to eat, it’s likely they did.

You have a lot more faith in people's hygiene than you should.

An alarming number of people routinely don't wash their hands even when they really, REALLY should. Stomach flu for example is almost solely transmitted by people who touch something with contaminated faeces on it, then bring their hand to their mouth. And that something is usually a bathroom door handle.

Judging by how common stomach flu is, it's statistically safer to assume nobody washes hands. But even if 99.9% did, all it takes is one idiot coming out of the bathroom and using the soy sauce dispenser to ruin your week.

As for restaurant staff "cleaning" things, I've seen more cleaners using dirty rags to spread dirt around and make surfaces look clean than actually cleaning anything. Even in my company, I refuse to let the cleaning lady in, because each time she comes, she uses the same rag she used in the bathroom to wipe my desk.

One side is regular soy sauce and the other is low sodium.

It also allows one to place a finger over the air hole, so that you can add single drops at a time

This resonated in my soul.

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So you can flip it upside down and you and a friend can both get a drink at the same time.

This grey beard appreciates your dedication.

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You must be old like me. :) I'm not sure I even have one of those punches anymore.

I save my Kikkoman bottles.

Soy sauce is so loaded with salt nothing can survive in there. Doing that in public is a bit rude, but not dangerous.

Hmm. I buy the big 1l plastic bottles and refill the one above.

People are such fucking germaphobes now days I don't know how they function without having a nervous breakdown. Somehow, in 150 years we went from not quite believing the germ theory of disease to thinking everything is going to sicken us. I'm absolutely filthy to those people and guess who never gets sick. They'd die in our house. My wife often leaves her dinner on the stove or covered on the table and eats it for lunch or dinner the next night.

I cannot imagine caring let alone thinking about it in the first place.