How can I open this jar?

[slowmotion]

Large pipe wrench

No,no, no! It will mark the plating on the lid....

Think strap wrench.

 

[Headgardener]

In case of emergency i.e. next time. Go to one of those disability aids shops, there are a few about now and ask for a jar gripping tool (I don't know what it's called but that's what it does), it has various sizes of gripper and opens like a nut cracker. The one we have even has a crown cork remover.

 

[ASC1951]

Get a tin opener. The old fashioned one with a little sharp point.

Just lift a bit of the rim of the lid all the way round. Then just lift it off instead of screwing it off.

The lids are kept on by the partial vacuum, especially with big jars. Just jabbing the point through the lid is usually enough to reduce the opening pressure.

Then rubber gloves or a wet cloth.

 

[trustysteed]

hold the lid and twist the jar instead. also works for bottles.

 

[Over The Hill]

If you bang the jar down lid first (onto a cutting board or something firm but not able to be damaged) it eases the thread a bit and the lid usually comes off.

 

[Campfire]

My mum bought me something from Betterware or somewhere like that, it is a large dome like cap with ridges that you put over the top and then you can get your hand around it and just twist. It nearly always works. The other way is to get one of those wine bottle openers, which has a gadget attached to just lift the lid WITHOUT making a hole in it.
Sometimes if you grip too hard you can pull a muscle in your neck, which is quite painful (wimp).

 

[Piemaster]

Quick jar (well, urn) opening story.
I once worked for a large shipping company. The magnate of the company died, his wishes were that his ashes would be divided up and scattered on the seven seas by whichever ship was plying its trade on a suitable route.
Whilst crossing the Atlantic one of the vessels I worked on (wasn't on it at the time) stopped to scatter the ashes. Crew were unable to unscrew lid of the urn and eventually resorted to drilling a hole in the bottom to get them out whilst causing as little damage as possible to the urn.
One of the crew was to discover a couple of days later the urn actually had a left hand thread.

 

[slowmotion]

Top story!

Thanks.

 

[Randochap]

Two words: Samurai sword.

 

[JediGoat]

As OTH mentions, I also go for the "turn it upside down and give it a sharp rap on a solid surface". It was recommended by my cookery teacher many moons ago, and it has never failed to work...in addition, it gives me rather a lot of satisfaction to whack the b*gger on the floor when normal opening techniques have defeated me.

I've never broken a jar doing it.

Yet.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Hasn't she opened that jar yet? I don't know, women heh

 

[Arch]

Thanks. Great tip. It worked. My hands are a bit red now though

Yum its smells goooood!
Ruth

Huh, men, never read the damn thread properly...

 

[RUTHIEBAV]

Huh, men, never read the damn thread properly...

LOL
Ruth

 

[hackbike 666]

Ok next task.....How do I open this^?