Pickled Cabbage Vent (seriously!!)

liam8282

If it is a jar with a metal lid, heat up the metal (put it in the sink and pour boiling water on it perhaps), metal expands, jar should be easier to open.

This is usually what happens when several people try to open a jar, first person jar is cold lid is tight, second person jar is warmer, third person jar is warm and lid comes off....

GlynD

liam8282 wrote: »

If it is a jar with a metal lid, heat up the metal (put it in the sink and pour boiling water on it perhaps), metal expands, jar should be easier to open.

This is usually what happens when several people try to open a jar, first person jar is cold lid is tight, second person jar is warmer, third person jar is warm and lid comes off....

Danger of shattering glass though. Pin !!!!! in the top, let the air in and it happens like magic.

Rain_is_Insane

liam8282 wrote: »

If it is a jar with a metal lid, heat up the metal (put it in the sink and pour boiling water on it perhaps), metal expands, jar should be easier to open.

This is usually what happens when several people try to open a jar, first person jar is cold lid is tight, second person jar is warmer, third person jar is warm and lid comes off....

Using that theory, the Kleeneze agent should have been able to open the jar.
Me thinks it was just a conspiracy to get me to buy a jar opener!!!!

tealady

Hi
Whenever I have a jar with a lid that I cannot open I just tap the edge of the lid (gently) on any concrete object. The front door step seems to work best however I have also used the house interior walls.
HTH

Ickle-toots

Morning !
I use a wooden rolling pin to gently tap around the lid - always works for me