Lifestyle: opening jars: why a cloth or glove might help

The tutor talks about why using a cloth or rubber glove might help to open a jar.

I’m not particularly strong, so with household chores I have to improvise sometimes – for instance, when opening jars.

When I was a kid I knew that a rubber glove could help with opening a jar; today I know that, in many cases, wearing the rubber glove isn’t as helpful as wrapping it around the jar. The other day I finally wondered why.

The reason is that often, lack of grip isn’t the problem opening a jar; rather, it’s lack of mechanical advantage. As the grip distance from the jar increases, you get more leverage. In many cases, a thick cloth might work even better than the rubber glove, because it pushes your grip further from the mouth of the jar, possibly increasing your leverage even more.

I’ll be talking more about little household tricks as I think of them:)

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.

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