Can't get the fricking lids off these jars!

[Taranta]

I know this is a first world problem, but if anyone can offer any cunning solution to aid me try and get into these jars I would be most grateful. I have tried the usual techniques, tapping lid on floor, even took a hammer to one in a fit of pique. Nothing. Nothing at all...gah!

Oh I genuinely wish I hadn't seen that Jesus. Maybe I could add it to a wishlist and then it wouldn't be my fault if it turned up at the house?

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

I'm left handed!! Fate or what?

Oh, but I'm left-handed too - don't let that give you any false sense of security!!!

There is absolutely no way that could possibly be your fault .

i know it's a bit late to be offering suggestions but DS taps on the lid with a teaspoon and that seems to work. He doesn't even do it that hard. Wierd.

@Taranta yeah... but you have soft little London hands, don't you? Little doll hands? No shame in that of course, but just not very practical if you want some tuna.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

There is absolutely no way that could possibly be your fault .

Have you received it?!

We have what is apparently called a “boa constrictor jam jar opener”. It’s amazing.

qnc01 ah, I was talking about churros there, but yes I have received the jar (if that's what you mean).

I dare not buy a churros maker - I would become entirely spherical, eating my (not inconsiderable) body weight in churros.

Well that's true @JesusInTheCabbageVan, so tonight I moved on to fancy 'Sardines Al Limone' which have buckled immediately under the first whiff of pressure from my soft little doll hands, I am gratified to report!

Those look delicious, @Taranta!

@Taranta Are you holed up in a bunker somewhere , living off your zombie apocalypse stash?!

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius they are so delicious...

Ha @MrsGrindah you'd think, but actually I can't be arsed with any kind of dish that requires more than opening a tin of fish and chucking it on a bowl of salad. Job done. Actually get a bit panicky when I'm down to the last dozen cans of tinned fish in the bunker horde...

Did you keep the first jar, Taranta??

Yes @tinkiiev so I can watch and learn from the master tomorrow AKA @JesusInTheCabbageVan

Oh, this thread is proper Mumsnet!

If Jesus can't open the jar, I volunteer to try next. In return, I will send a tin of those sardines in lemon, same as OP has.

Isn't it lovely and retro Bore

No offers to try the jar here though, I have zero grip strength and only the cats eat tuna

I've never been so instantly invested in a thread and I am already mildly outraged that I don't have closure yet. BOOKMARKING.

This thread is the most exciting thing that’s happened to me since March...

Try the sardine picante from Waitrose. We no longer have Waitrose and that’s what I miss most.

Careful now, I can see this failure to open a jar tuning into a mlm scheme if you have to send tins of tuna up the line...

covert place marking

Here partially to see how @JesusInTheCabbageVan gets on and also to look at the lovely Waitrose packaging as my nearest is miles away and it's just not worth it.

Obviously signing in for the grand opening! And placing my name on the list for next in line for jar opening. I'm too stubborn and no jar has beat me yet 💪

I have a jar key. It is the best thing.
Given that I also mow the lawn and put out the bins I do wonder what I keep DH around for.