Better person than I am. Opening the jar by shattering it in the sink would be my course.
FWIW may I suggest these:
They’re called “strap wrenches” and are used in plumbing or automotive work among other things.
Lots of the suggestions here require grip strength, and that is tough for people who are elderly, arthritic, or just don’t have it. The “toothed” opening assist devices slip, and require strength to hold it against the toothed surface and twist the jar.
The strap wrenches can be levered against each other, grip harder the more pressure is applied, and can be “pushed” together vs needing grip strength. My 78 year old MIL uses these just fine. A pair can be bought for less than $20.
I just lightly tap the lid with a knife around all edges, side and top. Even if making small indentations, the vibrations separate the lid from the jar. Works every time.
Yes, that does work. It’s not the vibration, the dents change the contact surface pressure of the seal by making it uneven. That makes less surface to fight against.
I was trying to offer an alternative to something that might chip or break glass. Small odds that it will happen, but it could. I’ve probably only ever had 2 jars chip in a lifetime.
If you can get the flat of a knife into the screw thread it’ll break the air seal and the lid will come off much more easily then.
I use like 10% of my strength by just pulling under a different angle. Maybe pulling the lid left/right first, then I only rotate from a certain angle. TL;DR: skill issue.
Giving Shaggy meme vibes
WorldsDumbestMan used 10% of his power to open every jar in the world
What a coincidence, my brother made me play that FNF Shaggy mod recently.
I barely held on, not as good as I used to be when I was younger.
I feel like I need to start going out onto street corners and yelling at people who walk by “YOU CAN SQUEEZE A BUTTERKNIFE BETWEEN THE LID AND THE GLASS AND INSTANTLY BREAK THE PRESSURE SEAL! IT WILL OPEN AS IF IT HAD ALREADY BEEN OPENED. YOU DONT NEED A SPECIALISED TOOL OR A GYM MEMBERSHIP!!”
Use a large spoon instead, won’t bend.
Warming the lid under hot tap water, and gripping it with a hand towel when opening so it isn’t slippery, will also open it much more easily without the risk of chipping glass or damaging lids for something that might need re-closing like pickles vs one-time use like pasta sauce.
Or you can buy a pair of “strap wrenches” used in automotive and plumbing work, for less than $20. I suggest these instead of other kitchen aid devices because many of the made-for-kitchen ones are shit. My elderly MIL uses these all the time.
Oh no that might imperceptibly alter the shape of the butterknife AND the lid and then we’re in a real situation, such as which there’s not a fucking question
The lids might get damaged and might not seal properly when reused. That’s why I always mark the ones which were pried open by stabbing the top of the lid. This way you can not mistake a potentially damaged lid for a good one
I know a few who are preoccupied with lids.
Their username checks out
You’re so right all my butterknives have been incapable of spreading butter for years now I shouldve known.
I have been secretly documenting butterknife crimes all this time! The last couple of minutes now since I began! But it’s fine.
Me currently checking my cutlery drawer to make sure you haven’t freed any of them from my enslavement
Even simple gripper pads work pretty well.
Or just gently bonk the edges on your counter in a few places around the lid and you’re in like Flynn.
Or for chaos mode, use a hammer.
Stab a hole in the lid with a steak knife
Yall barbarians never heard of a jar opener, doubling as a bottle opener? Even Swiss multitool knives have one on them, and there are keychain versions. Just pry the edge of the lid up a little until it pops, and then open it easily like a normal person.
so both of them are assholes
Why?
Based on the narrator’s actions they did not appreciate being called “a man”. The mom was therefore an asshole for that implication.
The narrator is an asshole because the mom needed help, and they were in a position to help, but they refused to.
(BTW, I personally don’t know enough about either person, so I’m not going to cast judgement)
I assume there’s context missing. Going out on a limb and assuming OOP is transfem. So if their mom needs a man’s help clearly OOP can’t help and is therefore not an asshole.
To take it even further, some people ate toast. Others, eggs. Some people objected to all that and they ate giant beetles
most people think opening a jar requires installing JRE. but this is actually false, as jars are simply zip files in disguise, so you can open them using a file archiver of your choice, such as 7zip or winrar
Why would you want to open that? I only want it to perform its magic.
Minecraft modding is unironically likely one of the most common reasons.
Back in the day you modded Minecraft by directly editing the insides of the jar!
Not necessarily, it could be the old JAR format which was supposed to be a successor to ARJ.
I learned this while trying to mess with Minecraft’s jar file
We had one of those jar opening hand-tools. It broke. This one hasn’t failed yet.
Overkill imo
Run the lid under hot water. Works every time.
“Let me call my transmasc friend then”
transstrong
Im using this
Im Agender AMAB, getting called a man feels like being stabbed with a fork
Honestly there’s no reason why we need gender in our language anymore other than to describe someone’s appearance for the sake of recognition (say if someone goes missing or is wanted for a crime).
Let’s normalize describing people by their attributes and qualities.
“I need help from someone strong here.” That’s really what they needed.
Assigning typical qualities to genders is just stupid.
You can also genuinely say “I need help from a lefty”. Because applying torque counterclockwise is easier with the left hand, wherein the base of the strong thumb is doing the work.
Legit, i just sing out who’s feeling beefy / tall / delicate-fingered / whatever is required for the task at hand. It’s not hard.
Definitely not that hard, for sure!
“I need help from someone strong here.” That’s really what they needed.
Offtopic-ish, but a couple of years ago, I couldn’t open a jar, so it said “ugh, I’m going to need a tool for this”. Then my then-boyfriemd walks by, opens it and goes “you’re welcome”. I had to explain why I was laughing so hard.
I still tease my now-husband with that every time I need a hand.
Man played himself like a fiddle. I doubt he regrets it, that’s a good fucking in joke right there.
lmao that was a good one
Could be something like hand size as well, since it can be harder to grip large lids.
I need someone who can open this jar
if you wanna get really specific I guess 😄
Am I missing something? He opened the lid and placed it down? That’s feels good? What does that entail? Am I old?
I’m assuming they are a trans girl, so the mom saying she needs “a man’s help” was misgendering her. OP basically affirmed that because they are not a man they cannot help and gave back the jar unopened. Given the pettyness one can assume that the mom misgendering OP is a frequent occurrence.
I would not have understood this without reading the comments
Context is everything, which is why whoever cut out the usernames was a jackass
I know you’re here for the memes and we appreciate you but the context is this is literally a trans lemmy instance.
If you twist the lid with your left hand, body in right, you get a bit more leverage
Reading these comments, I can’t help but wonder. Am I the only one who runs stubborn lids under hot water?
I used to, but now I have an old twisty thing that just crushes the lid as a grip. Works on things from bigger than my palm down to drink bottle lids, and leaves a noticeable dent so you can tell when it’s been used.
Just wack the edge a couple times with the back of a butter knife and the lid will come right off
If it’s really bad (sometimes you just can’t get a good grip), you can break the seal by pushing the lid up or prying a bit, there’s tools that do just that, I’m totally guilty of leveraging it a bit with a crappy butter knife.
Or just puncture the lid. Makes the open-and-closed-again jar spoil much faster than without the hole, but I’d assume that bending it out of shape probably has the same effect.
If you’re lifting the edge up, it’s gonna spring back at least somewhat afterwards. And the thread is still in place to do most of the holding the lid in place.
Smacking the bottom works better and you don’t need to get a knife out
will this work if im left handed? thanks.
It actually works better as there is more available strength in the arm to twist something counterclockwise with the left hand.
I swear this is one of the factors of why left-handed people tend to gravitate toward mechanics or engineering. As you could take things apart a lot easier and therefore lower the threshold to learn how something was made
Yep, pulling elbows apart muscles are stronger than pressing palms together muscles. 👍
