Tin can pull tabs: Do you shred your fingers to open them or do you use a spoon like a sensible person?
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Don't know about you but my fingers are not made of paper.
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Wait, is the spoon and the shredding before or after the can is opened?
I think I misunderstood your question earlier. It's before the can is opened. The can is that picture has a rab that sits very firmly against the can lid. It's hard to get a grip on it without using your fingernails and the tab also has little sharp bits so its very easy for the tab to cut the sensitive fleshy tissue under your fingernails as you pull the tab up. So I switch to using a spoon to Jimmy it open before switching to using fingers to finish the job.
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you can use the spoon handle
Yo, this is what I do.
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I'm on team OP with this one. My nails are too short and 50% of the time I get a can that doesn't play nice.
Either way I use a non-electric can opener since it's quiet. My cat recognizes the sound of these things.
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I split my finger nails.
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I use a table knife. If I had long nails I'm sure they would do the trick though; they aren't that strong
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These things are easy to open, if you're hurting yourself, you're doing it wrong.
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What is a side cutting opener? If it really does cut the side of the can, won’t it still be sharp just like the lid
The one I have I bought long long ago and it does indeed cut without leaving any sharp edges. I'm not sure if that's universal or just the type I have, I purchased it without any research.
I don't want to suggest any specific brand because fuck corporations. But the one I have is "Hamilton Beach Smooth Touch Electric Automatic Can Opener with Easy Push Down Lever" so that smooth touch might be the keyword to look for or they could have some ridiculous trademark on the term.
I didn't know this was an option until I bought this one and it appears I'm not alone on this. Such a simple device no one thinks about and the default option is primitive.
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Depends on the can, if I can press the top in to get the tab to pop up a little, then I will just to that. If that doesn't work, then a spoon or knife it is.
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I ignore the tab and use an edgeless can opener, in case it gets lost in transit to the recycling plant and a critter finds it.
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Depends on the tab. Some are not soldered onto the can so I can work with that. For the ones that do, spoons it is.
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Neither.
I use a knife.
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Wish more people here understood people's bodies are different including hands, I have trouble with these things too. Fucking hate them. I don't use a spoon though, just whatever that works. Like wtf do they have to have them so tight and no room to actually get under them and when you do open then they have extremely sharp edges to slice you up. Make it more accessible ffs
Genuine question because this might be a design difference between your country and Germany, where I'm from: Can you not lift the tab a little bit with the skin of your finger and then just pull on it? Are they welded onto the can?
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Genuine question because this might be a design difference between your country and Germany, where I'm from: Can you not lift the tab a little bit with the skin of your finger and then just pull on it? Are they welded onto the can?
There extremely stiff like a lot. Also requires a lot of strength and dexterity, at least for me. It used to be like soda cans where I can just easily pull the tap like I can with them now but a lot of pull tab cans (that are not soda cans) are just really cheap and are hard to open. I'm in the US.
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I'm a surgeon, I always use my fingers to open. Been eating canned tuna & sardines for so long, never injured my fingers.
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After watching Technology Connections' video on YT about those weird can openers that cut under the rolled lip and don't leave any sharp edges on top, I bought one and use that on every can even if it has a pull tab.
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Apparently some side cutting openers cut in a way that there are no sharp edges either on the lid or the opened can. Someone linked a video about it in crossposted thread.
Yes, the top just lifts off cleanly with no sharp edges or metal cutting debris. It still feels like magic every time... and/or I am easily entertained.
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I'm a surgeon, I always use my fingers to open. Been eating canned tuna & sardines for so long, never injured my fingers.
im not a surgeon and i have also never shredded my hands on these. who is injuring themselves on pull tabs???
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im not a surgeon and i have also never shredded my hands on these. who is injuring themselves on pull tabs???
I'm always careful opening those. Better safe than sorry.
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I'm a surgeon, I always use my fingers to open. Been eating canned tuna & sardines for so long, never injured my fingers.
Some people have the manual dexterity of a trex trying to put on a condom
