Help!! I cannot open this…?

Get yourself either a rubber glove, or a silcone based mat can be used, but what I find useful is a gadget for opening bottles, these would be ideal?

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Why does meat now be shrink wrapped in the trays?
Everything is made harder for us elderly.q

Not being able to grip jars, screw top, cans etc I have a number of gadgets.
Brabantia 400605 universal opener. £14.96
JML hands free battery operated can opener hands free £14.96
Both from Amazon.
Also most jars need the vacuum broken. A screw driver under the rim will achieve this.
I do have trouble getting tablets out of the packs. It was much easier years ago with pill boxes which were also reusable.
I do still have a a bottle opener to opener my Guiness bottle, and a can opener the first things my mother gave me when I married seventy five years ago.

Tizliz

Only this week I complained to Birdseye about the packaging of their frozen peas. They have got rid of the zip so the whole packet can be recycled. They will lose me as a customer as I can neither open or reclose the new packaging, if OH is not around I just go without.

I can never open a squeeze and twist top ever, OH thinks it funny as he finds them easy.

I cut the corner off packets of frozen goods such as peas, beans and sweetcorn - then just turn the cut end over and fasten with a wooden spring clothes peg (plastic ones go brittle in the freezer). Easy to open, secure - and can be used time after time...

i own "gadget". this is a multi- size gadget for use on jars and bottles. easily obtainable from amazon.
i was fortunate that the last owners of my house left it behind but i recommended one to a friend of mine and was able to find it on amazon so she bought one there and then.
for both of us "gadget" is priceless.

I've loads of gadgets & still can't budge lids. Rubber gloves help me at times. Please don't use a knife or scissors, a shiver went up my back at the thought of it.

Same here grannie works every time

I keep an adjustable spanner specifically for this task. It works every time as long as you ensure you place it correctly on the bits you are supposed to press together.

PS. I would love some 'nit-crackers'.
I reckon the DGC would let me search their hair for any little invaders that might need a good cracking!

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Every home needs a Baby Boa.
My DD gave me one because I have terribly arthritic hands and can't open jars or bottles.
This little darling has been an absolute boon for me - it will open pretty much any twist-off cap.

I think you have found yet another ‘consumer proof’ product!

Can’t help with the plastic ones, I’m the same as you I’m afraid, but the absolute way to go for jars is a simple bottle opener , it releases the vacuum , works every time for me .

rafichagran

I use nit crackers, just push and turn, seems to work for me.

and there was me wondering what were nit crackers!!!

I am with grannyactivist shove it in a door

this is getting a bit competitive now...

Bash the side of the lid hard (I put a cutting board on the floor and hit it against that).

I presume that it distorts the metal lid slightly, thus breaking the seal, and then it will open quite easily.

I presume it works in the same way as my tip, MamaCaz:

"Another tip for jam jars which are difficult to open is to tap smartly but not too hard around the rim of the metal lid with the back of a knife which seems to ease the lid. Warning, do it very carefully."

travelsafar

Ask a neighbour or friend. I frequently do.

My 28-year-old son lives with me and even he can’t do it, he did it in the end by using his teeth and I was horrified and said never to do that again!!… I feel like ringing somebody like Jeremy Vine and getting them to try to open it on air but then knowing my luck they would probably do it straight away and I’d look like a right idiot ?

You can also get electric bottle and jar openers. Go on ebay and type in 'jar openers' The range, choice and type is mind-boggling.

Ask a neighbour or friend. I frequently do.

I think I read this jar-opening tip here on Gransnet within the last couple of years:

Bash the side of the lid hard (I put a cutting board on the floor and hit it against that).

I presume that it distorts the metal lid slightly, thus breaking the seal, and then it will open quite easily.
It has worked every time I'v needed to do it, though just once I had to do it twice, as the first time I must have been too gentle

Thank you to whoever it was who shared this tip, as I haven't had to run out and greet my neighbour with cries of "I'm so pleased to see you- I need a man" since then, and I'm sure he is very relieved

The trouble with punching a hole in the lid of jars is that the contents can dry out or, if it is something sweet eg honey, it can attract ants.

Hetty58

Yammy, in my kitchen, I keep a sharp awl (for punching a hole in jar tops) small scissors - and large tweezers - along with a jar/bottle opening tool. Still, I struggle with ring pulls, so must get a gadget for them!

I use a teaspoon for difficult ring pulls. Put the spoon through the pull with the bowl of the spoon on top of the tin then pull upwards.

Ali08
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Yes, DGD showed me how to open the stair gate

And DD bought a modern playpen for DGS when he started crawling to pop him into for short periods while she was cooking etc.
He took it to pieces systematically.

Sorry, should have said that those ring pull can openers are very good.

Now I think of it I have seen a gadget somewhere maybe Lakeland to pull the ring cans.

For tips like that one, Shinamae, I used a bottle/jar opener which I inherited from my MIL. It's many years old but similar to this:
www.amazon.co.uk/Brabantia-Tasty-Universal-Opener-Light/dp/B07NJJ5JJK/ref=asc_df_B07NJJ5JJK/?hvlocphy=1007420&linkCode=df0&hvptwo&psc=1&psc=1&hvnetw=g&hvadid=309859607248&hvpone&hvlocint&th=1&hvpos&hvdev=t&hvdvcmdl&hvqmt&tag=gransnetforum-21&hvtargid=pla-750898953014&hvrand=18403375310000807007
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Another tip for jam jars which are difficult to open is to tap smartly but not too hard around the rim of the metal lid with the back of a knife which seems to ease the lid. Warning, do it very carefully.