"Goomba38" > wrote in message
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> Becca wrote:
>
>> To open a container, like an olive oil bottle, I use a nutcracker, it
>> works great every time.
>>
>> Have you noticed that child-proof packaging is almost impossible to open?
>> I bet a kid could open it faster than I could.
>>
>> Becca
> Oy.. the little foil/paper liners in spice jars drive me to distraction
> and you fight to lift it off. At least the new oil bottle child
> proof/tamper proof pull thingie has a nice large finger ring on it.

I use the little hook thingie on my can opener for those. First I can't get
the shaker top off. I spear one of the holes with the hook, rip it off and
most of the time throw it away because most spices are used in spoonfuls and
not shakes. Then I enlarge the hole using the hook until I can get my
finger in there to pry it off.

And those finger rings don't always work. Sometimes I have to pull so hard
on the bottle that I get some oil splashed on ME!