7 Reasons Your Knee Keeps Ending Up as the Sauce Holder

If the only spot for the sauce cup in your car is your knee, here's why it keeps tipping and the small fix that gives it a place of its own.

1. Your lap was never meant to be a table

You park, open the bag, and the only flat-ish spot for the sauce cup is your knee. One reach for a fry and it tilts.

It isn't clumsiness. A little cup of ketchup or ranch just has nowhere level to sit in a car, so your jeans end up as the table.

2. Why the usual tricks keep failing

Squeezing the sauce onto the wrapper puts it on your lap anyway. Tearing the packet open from the side still means holding it in one hand. Napkins only catch what already fell.

And if someone else holds the cup for you, now two people are juggling lunch.

3. Give the cup its own spot

The clip slides onto a vent slat or the edge of a cup holder. Its round ring holds a standard dip cup upright, at the height your hand already reaches.

The cup stays put while you dip, so the sauce stays in the cup and off your jeans.

4. What lunch in the car looks like now

Park, clip it on, set the cup in the ring and eat like you would at a table. Nothing on your knee, nothing to balance on the console.

Kids in the back get their own clip on a rear vent, so the dipping happens over the clip instead of the seat.

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5. Will it hold on my vents?

Being straight with you: it grips most flat horizontal and vertical vent slats. Round vents may not grip as well, so use the edge of a cup holder instead.

Two more honest notes. Air from that vent blows on your food, so switch it off while you eat. And set it up while you're parked, with your attention on the road once you drive.

6. Tiny, rinsable, lives in the glovebox

When you're done, pop it off and rinse it under the tap.

It's small enough to live in the glovebox or a door pocket, so it's there the next time you hit the drive-thru.

7. Four clips for $20

Each set has 2 clips, and every order is Buy 1, Get 1 Free: 2 sets for $20. That's 4 clips, or $5 a clip, enough for the front seats and the back.

Two cars or a big family? 4 sets for $40 or 6 sets for $60. Every order has a 30-day money-back guarantee.