"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
> Michelle wrote:
>>
>> I wondered if anyone had any tips or tricks for
>> cooking with a broken arm. My sister had a car
>> accident, and is in a cast for 5 weeks. Fortunately,
>> it's the left arm, and she is right handed, so she can
>> do a few things - but chopping is right out.
>
> When I couldn't use one hand, I'd open
> a jar by getting on the floor, holding
> the jar between my feet, and using my
> my good hand. When that didn't work
> with a particularly obstinate jar of
> salsa, I had the brilliant idea of
> relieving the vacuum in the jar by
> stabbing the lid with a knife. That
> worked! The lid came right off!
>
> Or maybe it didn't. Maybe disaster
> ensued. I could be lying. You pay
> your money, you take your chances.

Hehehe. I remember Sheldon saying some stupid thing about doing something
to the jar lid to break the seal. Only what he said to do would render the
lid unusable. So it would work if you were going to use the whole jar at
once but not if you wanted to keep some for later.