#1453 – Strained
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I’ve seen lots of different jar opening tools over the years. Some are simple thin pieces of rubber to help your grip. Some are more of a wrench that wraps around the lid. There are even electric ones the size of a small blender. Then there’s the one that I have been seeing for years in a drawer at a relatives house but I never knew what it was. It looks like an oversized plastic bottle opener. You use it to slightly pry up the edge of the lid and it breaks the vacuum seal. Then simply twist off the lid without any effort.
Here’s what it looks like if you haven’t seen one: http://amzn.com/B002OJBW8E
Today’s Maximumble is splotchy.
Hello there! I’ve been a fan for years and I’ve enjoyed every single Biff comic…thrice! I just wanted to say, has anyone else noticed that Biff is starting to look a little less like a real man? I know that sounds silly, but around #1000 he had the proportions of a real person, and recently he’s become more cartoony. Nothing wrong about that, just wondered if anyone else noticed.
Those “pry up the lid” openers are very common in the Netherlands. Typically can openers will have a protrusion that can be used for that purpose.
… hm. I just use the gripping end of a tea spoon for the same effect …
Mmmmmmmm……. I’d do this for applesauce, its easily intimidated.
Poor applesauce and jar, I hope this doesn’t Strain their relationship.
It’s all I got.(ducks rotten fruit.)
I always just use a spoon, stick it under the lid and apply a small amount or pressure. Lid pops up and will unscrew easly. Works almost everytime.
I’m from Sweden, and the *only* jar opener I knew of before reading this is the one that’s attached to the surface above the kitchen sink in the house where I lived before, though we rarely used it, if ever. I’m pretty sure it was already there when we moved to the house 17 years ago or so.
The jar opener looked like the letter V, with jagged edges on the inside. You were supposed to lodge the jar’s lid into the V and then twist the jar so that the lid would come off.
Maybe Swedish jars are designed to be easy to open? I don’t know.
That sounds like a _can_ opener to me.
But it is a *jar* opener. For jars with lids, like the one Biff tries to open by intimidating it. I meant that to use it, you have to place the jar “inside” the opener so that the V-shaped thing “grabs” the lid, and then you twist the jar while the lid is “stuck” there.
But maybe I have misunderstood what exactly a jar is, because in Sweden, we have only *one* word for things like jars, cans, tins and other (mostly) cylinder-shaped items that contain things (“burk”), and maybe a jar isn’t the type of “burk” that I thought… 😛
I found a similar one on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/EZ-Off-Jar-Opener/dp/B000X6K9J8/ref=pd_sim_sbs_k_6
This is the only type of jar opener that I knew of before today, and I didn’t even know there was such a thing as openers for plastic bottles!
I usually just threaten the jars family. After that it opens right up. >:3
But won’t the jar, come back and scare your family then?
I pry up the lid, with a screwdriver.
I, and my brother, used to have the jar duty at home. We know all the tricks. Ma would call for one of us, and then tell us which method might work. Hot water, light taps on the counter, smacking the bottom with the heel of the hand, the usual. The closest he had to a sepeerate tool was a large nutcracker for soda bottles. Worked really well too, especially when you could see the cap bulged a bit, where it was on really tight.
I usually just punch a hole in the lid. Once the vacuum is gone, you can easily twist it off.
What in the hell? I was -just- trying to open a stuck jar lid yesterday! Get out of my head, Hallbeck!
I’m frequently called upon to be he-man whenever I go home for holidays and such. Shirt sleeves usually do the trick.
High Explosives, they solve every problem.
And more importantly, they are great fun.