Easy opening

[Pravda]

Lidl vacuum packed mackerel, followed by a trip to A&E


Lucky I have a father who was a school caretaker.............................just saying

 

[Alex S]

I opened a lovely new tin of vacuum packed ring pull tennis balls once and within two minutes all four were bright red. My game had to wait two months.

 

[Bart]

Whenever a tricky little bit of household maintenance crops up I will try every implement I can find in the shed, cutlery drawer and under the stairs before reluctantly shelling out for the correct tool to do the job. When it arrives it is encased in military standard tough plastic casing which nothing can prise open or cut. I sometimes wonder if you are supposed to buy another tool for getting the correct tool out of the packing (and so on…).

 

[Tony L]

With all this expert knowledge ingrained in your genes, please reveal how you tackle a CD sealed in plastic with no thingy to pull on?

I’ve always got a Stanley knife to hand for deliveries; just run it along the gap between the tray-insert and the opening part on the front of the case. The wrap comes off easily then and there is no risk of marking the case or content if you keep in the gap. Far easier than finding the pull-tag if one even exists.

 

[Mike Hughes]

You should try this stuff with sight loss. “Cut along the dotted line”. What dotted line? And so on and so forth. There is no packaging I have not struggled with or exploded. Everything from small packets of raisins to a bag of spuds. One man trail of destruction.

 

[Rodrat]

Beer bottles with twist off caps are a PITA

 

[PaulMB]

There is a flap. I found it and you didn't and that is why I am a Toolmaker and you are one of the others.

Help!! Has no one else encountered a (or many?) sealed CD without a flap? I cannot by myself contradict a toolmaker and toolmaker's son.

 

[Copperjacket]

Packaged sliced food eg ham slices etc where the open tab never works and even worse the slices are stacked to be accessible from the other end of the packet.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

There’s an easier way with those no pull-tab CD cases than unpicking the flap. I’m very surprised, given his evident prowess, that Mick hasn’t found it.

 

[PrettyVacant]

Help!! Has no one else encountered a (or many?) sealed CD without a flap? I cannot by myself contradict a toolmaker and toolmaker's son.

Yes nothing more frustrating than scratching away at the tear strip without finding the flap. Not dissimilar to trying to find the end on a reel of Sellotape, you know it's there but just can't find it.

 

[gintonic]

choose your tool of choice, write a process, write a risk assessment, operationalise the process, go to the council to get permission and then enact.

 

[Cheese]

A few days ago in Edin, we bought a water bottle from M&S, it looked like their house brand. Sorry, making the bottle cap that tight is madness. Are they crazy.

After five minutes of swearing we managed it finally, but I am sure many such bottles land unopened in the bin.

 

[Copperjacket]

choose your tool of choice, write a process, write a risk assessment, operationalise the process, go to the council to get permission and then enact.

Surely you meant to add : then ignore the agreed procedure and ***ger it up at will?

 

[gintonic]

Surely you meant to add : then ignore the agreed procedure and ***ger it up at will?

I'd say ignore the tool makers with their old fashioned ways and get something cheap and lethal from Temu

 

[PaulMB]

I once had to use a chain-spanner I had for changing oil filters to open a jar of pickles. Admiring "what a man!" look from my wife.

 

[robs]

I starve the cat for a day or two then set them on it, which appears to be what Cesare (OP) has done....

 

[Bart]

Beer bottles with twist off caps are a PITA

Agreed, I generally resort to sabrage.

 

[Fatmarley]

It takes me a few seconds to open a sealed CD case. One of my canine teeth is very sharp, so I pull the CD across that tooth. It does scratch the case, but I'm not bothered.

 

[Mike Reed]

I opened a lovely new tin of vacuum packed ring pull tennis balls once and within two minutes all four were bright red. My game had to wait two months.

Were they slashenger balls. Alex? Those lids are an accident waiting to happen and have happened to me and others.

 

[Pravda]

A few days ago in Edin, we bought a water bottle from M&S, it looked like their house brand. Sorry, making the bottle cap that tight is madness. Are they crazy.

After five minutes of swearing we managed it finally, but I am sure many such bottles land unopened in the bin.

Lidl small water bottles are the blinkin same. We have to use a tool given to us by a disabled person. (we thought, nar, never gonna use that)