I ignore the tab and use an edgeless can opener, in case it gets lost in transit to the recycling plant and a critter finds it.
Depends on the tab. Some are not soldered onto the can so I can work with that. For the ones that do, spoons it is.
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.
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.
I use a butter knife attached to a 2x4. Then I just clamp the can in a bench vise and there we go!
True, but the tip of a knife can also be a fulcrum
class 1 vs class 2 leverage
you can use the spoon handle
Yo, this is what I do.
With fingernails. Else, it hurts and smth like a fork, knife can be used
I most frequently encounter these when feeding the cat, so in that case I have a spoon out already.
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
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
I ask someone else to do it
I put my foreskin in the tab and pull on that.
This is why circumcision was invented. To keep us from becoming too powerful.
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.
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 use a cutless can opener
I use a table knife. If I had long nails I’m sure they would do the trick though; they aren’t that strong
Fuck it. I use a rotary can opener. The one with the sharp edges!
