Oh woe is me! Dramatic yes, but pertinent considering my recent post discussing the ingenuity of using rubber gloves to open lids. Well I've just been thwarted in the kitchen! So I'm innocently cooking chili for dinner when I go searching for the tomato paste. There is a jar open in the fridge but not enough as I'm cooking super sized portions ready for freezing. There is also an unopened jar in the fridge. I grab the jar and give the lid a quick test turn, just to see if I can open it without the aid of the trusty rubber gloves. That's a negative, as expected, so I pick up the rubber glove and expect the lid to just pop open nice and easy. But not today. This jar of tomato paste is playing hardball. I try, over and over to the point where my hand starts to hurt. I'm right handed but for some reason I use my left hand to open things. Maybe that's normal, I don't know, but I try with the other hand just in case. Still no luck. At this point I'm looking at my chili, which is happily bubbling away, awaiting it's ingredient and wondering if I can scrape out enough tomato paste from the open jar. No, there's simply not enough. Surely this will upset the chili. I consider that maybe my technique has failed me because the jar was in the fridge and so cold. Or perhaps it's because I'm not feeling 100% today and have the strength of a gnat. Either way, the damn lid isn't moving and the chili is calling out for it! I consider the neighbours and then remember I don't have any. Maybe I could go to the restaurant next door and ask someone to open my jar. No, they'll think I'm crazy. Maybe I can call Mystical Roo and ask him to come home to open the jar.....no, that's just silly. I'm now angry with the jar, upset because it's threatening to spoil my dinner. So I grab the rubber glove again for one last try and give the jar serious evils. In a last ditch attempt to get this thing open, and venting my rage, I swear at the jar of tomato paste through gritted teeth. I swear and I twist and then finally, FINALLY the lid pops open. I think it was shocked by my bad language. But thank God the chili is saved. In conclusion, if the rubber glove method initially fails, then start swearing at the uncooperative receptacle and try again. Scare it into submission. Mwah ha haaaaaaa!
Yes, I expect you frightened the jar into submission. But I really think it's time you invested in a Brabantia jar/bottle opening gadget before you injure yourself They are pretty effective! (Why you not feeling 100% - hangover??)
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