Struggling To Open A Jar Lid

Having a pretty salty vocabulary helps!

I struggle, tap it with a knife, run it under hot water, rummage through the junk drawer until I find my old jar opener.

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The worst jars for me are Better Than Bouillon.

Iā€™m afraid that it wonā€™t be long until I become my mother and have to wait until I can flag down a stranger in the hall to open my jars for me.
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Normally, for a metal lid on a glass jar, tapping the edge of the lid to break the seal generally works fine. My nemesis is a previously opened jar of Marmite. If a small amount of Marmite gets onto the plastic lid threads it can set up like epoxy! :mad:

Then I resort to channel locks . . . :ROFLMAO:
 
I never found a jar lid I couldnā€™t open. The only thing I ever did besides using my rubber lid opener was to use the handle of a knife and tap around the lid. It would let loose enough so the rubber pad would open the lid.

My Gramps made a lid opener out of a piece of metal that was laying around. It was a weird looking thing. The first time Grandma used it, she let go of the jar and the lid came off while the jar was flying across the kitchen and made a mess. Good bye homemade jar lid opener.
 
Church key - I use the pointed end to barely slip it under the jar lid and break the seal (hold it upside down) or the rounded end in the same way you would use it on a bottle. It only takes a little pressure to break the vacuum and does not affect the lid.

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Had to laugh at @DebraMae use of the term ā€˜church keyā€™ šŸ˜€
I havenā€™t heard that said since I was a teenager. It was the only term we knew for that particular tool.

I currently have a bruised thumb joint from trying to open a jar. I seem to take it as a personal challenge ā€” no #*%=** jar is going to get the better of me. The jars are beginning to win.
 
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