Jar opener, not can opener.

If you have one, how well does it work?

I use a big rubber band.

Or a spoon handle to break the seal.

My mother taught me to use a butter knife handle and tap all around the cap and then loosen it.

In fact most of the stuff comes in plastic nowadays, the day of the glass jar seems to be disappearing slowly.

So you can beat the heck out of it without about getting cut by glass.

I would like to see one of those electrified openers though.

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Doesn't hasta call me Johnson

I was trying to open a stubborn jar of pickles today, couldn't budge it. Then I remembered Mom's old trick, probably stolen from Reader's Digest 60 years ago. Turn the jar over, and bonk the lid flush on the counter..........twice. Not once, not thrice, always twice.

I gave the pickle jar the double-bonk treatment, turned it back over, and the lid twisted off with little force needed. I don't know why it works, but I learned a long time ago not to argue with Mom.

We had one but it was more trouble than it was worth! Sometimes it worked very well, and sometimes it really didn't. It depended on the specific jar type.

We got rid of it and now either my wife gives the metal jar top a few persuasive taps with the back of a butter knife or she hands it to the new jar-opener........... ME!

Chief38

I remember a commercial for this humungous electric device you could buy just to open tough jar lids.I swear, this contraption looked big enough to put a space capsule inside the center of it and took up about three feet of counter space. All this just for that occasional time when you might need a jar opened. Maybe it has gotten slightly exagerated in my mind but this thing was big.

I had learned it the same way. Just from daddy...

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Jorge

Glass jar, run lid under HOT WATER to help expand it, you could tap around it with a butter knife if necessary then. Hot water usually does the trick to loosen the cap.

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NRA Pistol/Rifle Inst. RSO

No, no. It was the tap tap with the back of a knife.

If one has trouble opening jars, they sell those rubber gripper things which really help.

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Still Running Against the Wind

We gave my Mother one and she said it worked good on most jars but after about a year the gears started slipping. Plastic gears.

Electric Jar Opener

I bought a used Black and Decker at a Goodwill outlet. It worked fine but the wife complained about the amount of counter space it took up. So I gave it to my parents because they have problems gripping things. They really like it.

No doubt that would do the trick

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Doesn't hasta call me Johnson

We had one. It now lives in some land fill.

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CSM, U S Army(Ret) 1963-1990