easysurfer
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Was in the mood for a hot dog with nice condiments yesterday. Ran into a snack trying to open a new jar of sauerkraut. More specifically, tried and tried turning the jar but eventually gave up and decided to fight another day.
So, after enjoying my sauerkraut less hot dog, I went on to Amazon and youtube to see what other folks do about opening a jar. From what I see, jar opening gadgets are big business with all kinds of openers. One that caught my eye was a machine called Lids Off by Black and Decker. But at Amazon, brand new is about $120 (way too much). I ended ordering a used on on ebay for about $20.
I remembered then, I have a jar popper made out of plastic and the use is to pop vacuum seal off jars. Took this out, tried on the sauerkraut jar and before I can say "magic", the seal was broken and lid easily to turn off.
As a conversational piece, may be fun to try that Lids Off machine when I get that. But now I wonder, probably don't even need one as I was opening the jar all wrong with the brute force method of trying to unscrew.
So, after enjoying my sauerkraut less hot dog, I went on to Amazon and youtube to see what other folks do about opening a jar. From what I see, jar opening gadgets are big business with all kinds of openers. One that caught my eye was a machine called Lids Off by Black and Decker. But at Amazon, brand new is about $120 (way too much). I ended ordering a used on on ebay for about $20.
I remembered then, I have a jar popper made out of plastic and the use is to pop vacuum seal off jars. Took this out, tried on the sauerkraut jar and before I can say "magic", the seal was broken and lid easily to turn off.
As a conversational piece, may be fun to try that Lids Off machine when I get that. But now I wonder, probably don't even need one as I was opening the jar all wrong with the brute force method of trying to unscrew.