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.
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
The one I have I bought long long ago and it does indeed cut without leaving any sharp edges. I’m not sure if that’s universal or just the type I have, I purchased it without any research.
I don’t want to suggest any specific brand because fuck corporations. But the one I have is “Hamilton Beach Smooth Touch Electric Automatic Can Opener with Easy Push Down Lever” so that smooth touch might be the keyword to look for or they could have some ridiculous trademark on the term.
I didn’t know this was an option until I bought this one and it appears I’m not alone on this. Such a simple device no one thinks about and the default option is primitive.
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.
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.
With fingernails. Else, it hurts and smth like a fork, knife can be used
These things are easy to open, if you’re hurting yourself, you’re doing it wrong.
I ask someone else to do it
So far, even my nailbiting-fingernails always were more than enough to get these open
I’m a surgeon, I always use my fingers to open. Been eating canned tuna & sardines for so long, never injured my fingers.
im not a surgeon and i have also never shredded my hands on these. who is injuring themselves on pull tabs???
I’m always careful opening those. Better safe than sorry.
Some people have the manual dexterity of a trex trying to put on a condom
Oh wow. I haven’t met those people.
I play the banjo and not the guitar, so I finger pick these open instead of shred.
OP needs to hit the gym or something. I’ve always pulled them with my hand and never had a single issue.
I’m just going to leave this here… Best most mundane purchase I’ve ever made! Regular openers can eat a dick after using this type! https://youtu.be/i_mLxyIXpSY
Don’t know about you but my fingers are not made of paper.
I use my fingers but have never had any sort of “shred” occur
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
Genuine question because this might be a design difference between your country and Germany, where I’m from: Can you not lift the tab a little bit with the skin of your finger and then just pull on it? Are they welded onto the can?
There extremely stiff like a lot. Also requires a lot of strength and dexterity, at least for me. It used to be like soda cans where I can just easily pull the tap like I can with them now but a lot of pull tab cans (that are not soda cans) are just really cheap and are hard to open. I’m in the US.
You’re right! I thought of the typical soda can and, as far as I remember, those tabs are lifted a little so you can get underneath even by just shoving your finger skin in. But just yesterday I tried opening a can of tuna and was surprised not only by how naturally I do the little lift with my finger nails but also by how very difficult it is to open when you don’t use your fingernails.
