I use my fingers but have never had any sort of “shred” occur
Fuck it. I use a rotary can opener. The one with the sharp edges!
I put my foreskin in the tab and pull on that.
This is why circumcision was invented. To keep us from becoming too powerful.
I’m not sure I understand how you’d shred your fingers on them. I put my nail under the tab and lift until my finger can get under it
The hell are you doing that shreds your fingers
Seems like it’s been a while since pull tabs in Australia didn’t want to rip off your fingernails when you try to use them to open a can.
I’m scared to ask… what… are you using your fingernails for here?
How do you pry these open? The tab in the picture is really tight against the lid of the can. Is there are trick to loosening these without picking at them with my nails?
No, I don’t think there is a trick… I just thought you did something weird, because I’ve literally never hurt myself opening these or even had any problems at all.
I just opened one of these to test. What I do is I use my fingernails to get below the tab, which is extremely easy. The harder part would be to lift it up with my fingernails, which I don’t do, instead, after lifting the tab up just a tiny bit with my fingernails, I push my finger further in so that a bit of my flesh goes in between the tab and the lid, which gives me a bit more leverage to lift the tab. I then repeat this one more time, after which my whole finger is in the hole. I can then just remove the lid by holding the can with one hand, then pulling the lid in a 45° angle with the finger through the hole.
I just never thought about that there could be a problem opening these and I wondered what exactly you were doing to make it hard.
You put your flesh under there!?
I get what you mean, I do the same, it just sounded weird.
How do you open a jar? Oh, I just use my hand meat.
How do you open a jar? Oh, I just use my hand meat.
Uh. I would never use my raw handmeat to open a jar. I use the power of my mind!
Jars are at less than ambient pressure. There is a constant external net atmospheric force pushing the seal down. I find it most convenient to simply remove that force. I first don a pressure suit. Then, I take the jar and walk into a large walk-in hypobaric chamber I’ve built right off my kitchen. I enter the chamber, and then wait approximately 20 minutes for the vacuum cycle to bring the chamber to a partial vacuum. The air pressure in the chamber now matches the air pressure in the can. Once the cycle is complete, I effortlessly remove the lid with a gentle twist. Then I wait 20 minutes for the repressurization sequence. I doff the pressure suit and I then continue my cooking.
Push down on the short side of the tab and just behind the two lumps on the lid, it should go “kathuck” and the top comes up off the lid so you can pull it free.
it shouldnt be that tight but if it is you can use a butter knife to lift up the first 19 degrees and then use your finger.
Fingernails? When young, I sliced my finger with the lid itself and have the scar to prove it.
Side cutting openers are a must in a home with children.
What is a side cutting opener? If it really does cut the side of the can, won’t it still be sharp just like the lid
I use a cutless can opener
So far, even my nailbiting-fingernails always were more than enough to get these open
I’m not a total pussy so I jam my buck teeth in there and pry it open with that.
Teeth? What you too good to slide the flat side of your dick under there and think of england like the rest of us?
One attempt with fingers, then butter knife.
spoon seems too wide
I came to say the same because the spoon sounds like a bigger problem than using fingers.
Spoon has a built in fulcrum.
I use a butter knife attached to a 2x4. Then I just clamp the can in a bench vise and there we go!
True, but the tip of a knife can also be a fulcrum
class 1 vs class 2 leverage
you can use the spoon handle
I play the banjo and not the guitar, so I finger pick these open instead of shred.
Since OP uses spoons, you only need to find warshboard and jug players to round out your quartet!
I often shape and paint my nails and these things chip polish like nothing, so I’ll use the teaspoon I have lying out from the last time I made tea, probably.
Wish more people here understood people’s bodies are different including hands, I have trouble with these things too. Fucking hate them. I don’t use a spoon though, just whatever that works. Like wtf do they have to have them so tight and no room to actually get under them and when you do open then they have extremely sharp edges to slice you up. Make it more accessible ffs
I think a lot of the comments about my fingers are in jest. Even if they’re not it’s all water of this ducks back.
Your experience is the same as mine. Perhaps when tabs came into fashion they were just flimsier but these days they’re all so tight.
Can opener every time. It sounds strange but it doesn’t leave a lip for things to get caught on when you empty the can
I most frequently encounter these when feeding the cat, so in that case I have a spoon out already.
Finger shred.
