screw top jars

This is a good gadget for most screw-top jars.

www.lakeland.co.uk/13500/Zyliss-Jar-Opener

The bleach bottles are ridiculous...!

I can plug in to this, as I don't have the strength in my hands that I used to. Things like bleach bottles, with that stupid push and turn mechanism drive me nuts. Recently, I completely gave up on trying to open a large plastic bottle of screen wash, and sawed the top of the bloody thing with a hacksaw. Not a method to be recommended, but I was nearly in tears of frustration.

I have the gadget made by the same people who make the toupee turning one. Culinaire, that's it. It's brilliant

In desperation, when the gadgets have failed, I've punched a hole in the jar lid with my bottle opener. It releases air and the top comes off like a dream. Then it's a matter of finding another container for what's left.

I recently struggled with the tiny screw top of a perfume bottle - it just wouldn't budge. In the end, strips of fabric plaster around both bottle and the top to give a wider area to grip did the trick.

Bleach bottles are infuriating - I've resorted to cutting them across the neck and decanting into a liquid washing detergent bottle, big label attached.

For bleach bottles (I have arthritic fingers) I use a nutcracker, it's perfect. It grips well. Just make sure the pinchy bits match up with the marks on the lid.

What a good idea, janerowena! Must try that.

I use a bottle opener to release the pressure and screwtops generally open very easily. For smaller bottles/jars I use nutcrackers (!) and as for the."push and turn" , I frequentlyleave them open. Like the idea of sawing the whole damn top off though!

Rubber gloves give a better grip on screwtop jars and bottles.

Galen is it only me that is confused by I have the gadget made by the same people who make the toupee turning one

I didn't even know toupees needed turning, let alone that there was a special gadget for it!

I have a very useful gadget - a bit like nutcrackers that was bought by my grandfather, so is over 60 years old. It is very good for screw top jars and bottles although as it's much slenderer than a nutcracker it's getting rather flimsy now. I live in fear of it falling apart because I've not seen anything like it for years.
If I've once got the lid off the bleach I never put it back on properly and I have more than once sawn the top off a bottle!