How to open canned food

How to open canned food

In shop, canned food in jars which are opened by means of special metal eyelet which is rather simple for pulling more often meets. However preserved foods in traditional banks without any key have not gone out of use yet. And there is not always near at hand tool which they can be opened.

It is required to you

  • - bank of canned food;
  • - can opener;
  • - normal kitchen knife;
  • - axe;
  • - scissors;
  • - file.

Instruction

1. Examine to bank. If on it there is special eyelet, raise it up and unbend. Pull for eyelet strongly, but it is not really sharp. If all of you have made correctly, jar will easily be opened, and then other tools will not be necessary for you.

2. Can happen and so that the eyelet will come off, or at banks there is no key at all. Use can opener. They are several types. One of the most popular - knife in the form of trident. Middle part at it stupid, and side - sharp. Puncture cover with longer edge. Deliver to bank on table and densely press the left hand. Make an incision cover close to edge. The hand in which you hold knife has to move up-down, gradually moving ahead around. Such knife it is possible to open jar of any form.

3. It is adapted and for removal of covers from glass jars. For this purpose it is enough to hook cover curved edge, to set stupid part against cover and the sharp movement to pull knife up. It is possible that it will be necessary to repeat operation 2-3 times.

4. You can have also knife with the turning handle. It has still something like gear and uvula. These knives happen several types. In the simplest case edge pierce cover. Press to bank and you twist the handle the screw, gradually advancing knife around. Some of knives of this kind clamp to bank like vice. The only thing what it is necessary to remember, so it what the bank should open from upper part of the letters written on the label. Happens that edge of bottom and cover have different width.

5. If near at hand there is no can opener, use normal. The form of its role does not play, but it is better if it has sharp tip. Pierce, as well as in the first way, to bank. Movements top - down make an incision cover. The cut will turn out not really equal, but the esthetics in this case and is not especially important. Try not to be cut about keen edges. It is possible to use also scissors of the average size. Tailor's will approach too, but are less convenient.

6. In tourist campaign or at the dacha sometimes it is necessary to do and in general without knife which can be lost or break. In this case you will be helped out by the axe which to lose much more difficult. Way of action approximately the same. Pierce cover and its vzrezayta the same as you would do it by knife.

7. Quite often on sale canned food in glass jars at which the cover is not rolled up as at house conservation, and twists comes across. If to consider that place where the cover adjoins to thread banks, it is possible to see small ledges. It would seem, it is possible to open it. But it not always so. Sometimes it does not manage to be made even with the help of considerable efforts. Hook knife cover where ledge, and slightly unbend. After this jar it will be opened easily, however to be closed any more it it will not be dense.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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