I use a cutless can opener
I’m not sure I understand how you’d shred your fingers on them. I put my nail under the tab and lift until my finger can get under it
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.
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.
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.
it shouldnt be that tight but if it is you can use a butter knife to lift up the first 19 degrees and then use your finger.
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
I’m not a total pussy so I jam my buck teeth in there and pry it open with that.
Teeth? What you too good to slide the flat side of your dick under there and think of england like the rest of us?
So far, even my nailbiting-fingernails always were more than enough to get these open
One attempt with fingers, then butter knife.
spoon seems too wide
I came to say the same because the spoon sounds like a bigger problem than using fingers.
Spoon has a built in fulcrum.
True, but the tip of a knife can also be a fulcrum
class 1 vs class 2 leverage
you can use the spoon handle
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
I think a lot of the comments about my fingers are in jest. Even if they’re not it’s all water of this ducks back.
Your experience is the same as mine. Perhaps when tabs came into fashion they were just flimsier but these days they’re all so tight.
I most frequently encounter these when feeding the cat, so in that case I have a spoon out already.
I play the banjo and not the guitar, so I finger pick these open instead of shred.
I often shape and paint my nails and these things chip polish like nothing, so I’ll use the teaspoon I have lying out from the last time I made tea, probably.
Can opener every time. It sounds strange but it doesn’t leave a lip for things to get caught on when you empty the can
I use these all the time, no issues.
You pry the tab up to a 45 degree angle. Then insert a finger. While firmly holding the can with one hand, pull back with the other hand on the tab, the can should open smoothly. At the very end there is a chance the lid will spring off the can, so you should use less pressure when the lid is almost totally detached.
If you have trouble getting under the tab (like you just cut your fingernails), use any flat thing to give you leverage, a spoon, toothpick, screwdriver, etc
Finger shred.
Can’t say I’ve ever had a problem, but I don’t have useless sausage fingers like you apparently do. Makes me think of the Idles lyrics from Never Fight a Man with a Perm:
‘Me, oh me, oh my, Roy You look like a walking thyroid You’re not a man, you’re a gland You’re one big neck with sausage hands’
Great band, apart from the last album which was dire.
Six songs later in the album is a tune specifically about the evils of making people self-conscious about their body. Be more kind.
Thanks for compliment.
Keep rocking those stumpy digits.
I have rather long and nimble fingers, but also my fingernails are really thin and soft so I keep them short (otherwise they will break at every opportunity) which is not a good combination to get a hold of can tabs.
Wait, is the spoon and the shredding before or after the can is opened?
The finger shredding would happen as an result of opening the can and remain shredded after until healed so during and after. Dunno about the spoon.
