I use my fingers but have never had any sort of “shred” occur
The hell are you doing that shreds your fingers
Seems like it’s been a while since pull tabs in Australia didn’t want to rip off your fingernails when you try to use them to open a can.
I’m scared to ask… what… are you using your fingernails for here?
How do you pry these open? The tab in the picture is really tight against the lid of the can. Is there are trick to loosening these without picking at them with my nails?
No, I don’t think there is a trick… I just thought you did something weird, because I’ve literally never hurt myself opening these or even had any problems at all.
I just opened one of these to test. What I do is I use my fingernails to get below the tab, which is extremely easy. The harder part would be to lift it up with my fingernails, which I don’t do, instead, after lifting the tab up just a tiny bit with my fingernails, I push my finger further in so that a bit of my flesh goes in between the tab and the lid, which gives me a bit more leverage to lift the tab. I then repeat this one more time, after which my whole finger is in the hole. I can then just remove the lid by holding the can with one hand, then pulling the lid in a 45° angle with the finger through the hole.
I just never thought about that there could be a problem opening these and I wondered what exactly you were doing to make it hard.
You put your flesh under there!?
I get what you mean, I do the same, it just sounded weird.
How do you open a jar? Oh, I just use my hand meat.
OP needs to hit the gym or something. I’ve always pulled them with my hand and never had a single issue.
So far, even my nailbiting-fingernails always were more than enough to get these open
Don’t know about you but my fingers are not made of paper.
These things are easy to open, if you’re hurting yourself, you’re doing it wrong.
