"jinx the minx" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> "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.
>
> Normal people would put the leftovers in a different container, not toss
> it
> out.

Really? So... Normal people would take one pickle from the jar, then put
the remaining contents in another container? I don't think so.