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[Pat "5mph"]

I spent years looking for a new frying pan to replace mine before the handle falls off, but couldn't find anyone selling them with lids (bar one or two cheap crappy ones). Eventually, I gave up and decided to buy a pan with no lid before I get scalded, then spent an hour or so enlarging the lid from the old pan to fit the new one. No sooner had I finished the job than I discovered that Amazon sell pan lids separately from the pans....

Often lids from the pots you have already got will fit frying pans too: have an experiment!

I once watched a black guy at Cheltenham YMCA open a tin really quickly and slickly, with an 8" kitchen knife. Presumably he'd grown up in a country where tin openers were a luxury.

I'm an European white lass, I have that skill too.
Even though there are plenty of can openers in Europe, readily available for pennies one just has that skill, it's inbred
Very handy if you are camping, or indeed when a tin opener is required but you don't have one at hand.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I don't have a toaster.

(No, really, I don't)

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm an European white lass, I have that skill too.
Even though there are plenty of can openers in Europe, readily available for pennies one just has that skill, it's inbred
Very handy if you are camping, or indeed when a tin opener is required but you don't have one at hand.

I think my wife might turn her kitchen knives on me if she caught me using them to open tins.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I don't have a toaster.

(No, really, I don't)

Neither have I, because I don't eat toast.
However, I have a repurposed brownie making machine, rubbish for making brownies, but excellent for a toasted wrap - or two.

 

[presta]

Often lids from the pots you have already got will fit frying pans too: have an experiment!

The nearest one is the one off the old pan that I altered.

 

[Dave7]

Neither have I, because I don't eat toast.
However, I have a repurposed brownie making machine, rubbish for making brownies, but excellent for a toasted wrap - or two.

Do you eat bread of any kind?
My toaster has really earned its keep over its long life.

 

[Legs]

I don't have any deep 8" cake tins but have occasionally improvised with a lined steel saucepan - works a treat!

 

[Tenkaykev]

I don't have a toaster.

(No, really, I don't)

Ah, that brought this Red Dwarf episode to mind...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

 

[Pale Rider]

Releasing the vacuum with a bottle opener normally allows a jar to be opened IME.

Or shock the thread by whacking the rim of the lid on a hard surface.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Or shock the thread by whacking the rim of the lid on a hard surface.

Sometimes followed by sweeping up the broken glass afterwards!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Do you eat bread of any kind?

Aye, plenty, didn't I say I make toasted wraps on the brownie toaster?
It's just toast I don't like.
Us continentals don't eat toast with butter etc.
However, we eat cold toast at breakfast, dunk it in a hot beverage, or indeed with butter, jam or nutella.
You buy in a packet, like biscuits: here
I don't like those either

 

[classic33]

Sometimes followed by sweeping up the broken glass afterwards!

I've done that after giving the lid a light tap with one hand, whilst holding it with the other.

The bottom of the jar flew off!

 

[PeteXXX]

The serrated bits for opening small jars & bottles are darn handy sometimes 👍

 

[classic33]

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The serrated bits for opening small jars & bottles are darn handy sometimes 👍

I used to keep a mid-sized pair of waterpump pliers, in the drawer, to do the same job.

 

[Dave7]

Or shock the thread by whacking the rim of the lid on a hard surface.

I use a table spoon but need to bash it in several places.