Kim's dummy spit

LOL...Dont know why but wife was laughing at me as she read that post. My most favorite kitchen implement these days is a cut throat razor...Opens anything

What about trying to open a Bandaid, with a cut finger?
Even if you manage to tear of the top, they are epoxy glued to the sides of the pack.
Those things are sealed for life!

For may years, the western world made and packaegd it's own food. It became a "norm" that packets were to be 'easy to open".

BUT - now a lot of stuff is packaged in SE Asia. Often the food is actually grown there.

After years of expat jobs in SE Asia there's one thing the used to get up my nose about packaged food over there - you need to be an professional wrestler or an indian mystic to get packets open without the contents flying all over the place. It used to drive me nuts opening "nuts". Pull, pull, tug, tear, bite, ahhh stuff it - go for it, and wallop - all over the floor.

Now that same disease is here in OZ 'cos it's either packed in SE Asia or packed to lesser SE Asian standards.

Bilbo

I'll try Kim, I promise,,,,,,,,,,,,,But

While we're here, another thing that seems to open my bowels is "bubble packs".

You know the kind of thing. You buy say, a set of twist drills or a set of batteries. You look at the front of the pack - hard plastic. Your heart sinks. You look at the back of the pack - still no apparent easy way of opening it. You think," Nah,I wont use the knife again, last time I slit my finger doing this. No knife this time"

You bite it. Not even a tooth mark on it. You try to rip the cardboard off the back of it. Still can't get it open enough to get the bloody drills out! You tear a fingernail to the quick trying to get the plastic from off the cardboard. Schite that hurts!!

GET THE BLOODY KNIFE OUT!! THE SHARP ONE!!

A quick stab at the plastic reveals that THIS plastic does not split in the expected direction when ya cut it. The knife does not follow the proposed trajectory. It veers off, askew, with a will of its own.

And where does the SHARP knife go?

Right into your finger!! Exactly where it stabbed you last time when you vowed never again to use a knife on a BLOODY BUBBLE PACK!!

AAARGGHHH!!

Bilbo

That made me chuckle Muzz :)

We've all been there,,,,,,,,

Thanks mate,

Bilbo

Hi kim was just reading the thread,(lol) classic stuff,not only do i have issue with that. whats the go gladwrap? Somebody is laughing @ me somewhere, it doesnt rip straight when i try to rip it off, & when i do finally wrap something i can sit back and be safe in the knowledge that my lunch will start to unwrap it self soon. My wife just shakes her head & wakes away.
Gladwrap.......im glad when its wrapped i tell ya!
My wife wraps stuff that would survive a nuclear blast! I cant open the thing,but me ......no way,maybe 4x4 monthly could do an article on gladwrap....
cheers geoff

Or those poxy rolls of tear off bags at supermarket vegie stalls.

Kim,

You have to be prepared mate.
I used to rip into the packaging with my teeth, but a few thousand dollars invested in Caps, has left me reluctant to resort to this normally male solution.

I now carry the Victorinox everywhere for just such occasions.

My biggest frustration is removing the plastic wrapping off the morning paper.
I reckon our local newsagent spends a perverse amount of time ensuring the end of the wrapper is suitably disguised. Bloody Mongrel he is!

its the stuff in the hard formed clear plastic thats bleep es me

i now keep a LARGE pair of scisssors handy....

The reason they do this sort of packaging these days is to try to combat shoplifting. Shoplifters tend to try to remove the item from the packaging before they leave the store, so they made packaging that was impossible to open without a knife. Bulky strong hard to break plastic. Such a waste of oil resources and anyway, whats there to deter a shoplifter from carrying a knife anyway? *shrug*
I wish they would stop this over packaging nonsense, for the reason of resources wastage alone.

Gidday,

My worst experience of packaging was whilst on a flash boat as a guest for a watch the start of the Sydney to Hobart. I worked for a grog company so I brought a good bend of scotch along .

Not long into events, and after much description of the taste that was to come I tried to open the bottle but the tamper proof ring wouldn't break and the thread of the cap wouldn't engage the glass thread of the bottle neck. No tools to speak of...... but

Everyone on board had an solution.. one actually worked. One guest took out a sneaker lace and halved it. Half went back to his shoe and the other half he wrapped around the neck of the bottle which he lit and let it burn/smolder for a good few minutes. Then he poured some beer over the hot area and the neck snapped off clean as a whistle.

We lost a shot or two but this man was immediately elevated to legend status.

Regards
SKI'er

What about opening some mail, some envelopes defy even a knife unless it is very skinny. I find scissors are the best option for most packaging except cling wrap, It completely defies my dexterity.

Dunedigger