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Christina Websell wrote:
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Christina Websell wrote:
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Christina Websell wrote:
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I always have a problem opening Klner jars, the type with a glass
lid. Releasing the vacuum can be a PITA, the problem is one can
easily chip the lid or bottle rim. Has anyone found an easy fool
proof way of opening them?
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Not in this country, but when I was in Germany at a fleamarket there
was something to be bought for 1 euro to do just that. No-one knew
what it was for until my German friend asked what it was, and then
she bought it for herself;-)
So there is a special thingie.
It's called a 'butterknife'.

No, it was not called a butterknife. It was a special implement
for just that purpose. Which, as I said, I haven't seen here.
It's always been a butterknife. If one can't be found, or is nesting in
the butter, one has to be very careful not to bend the table knife.


Pffff. You just don't like it that there is a very special piece of
equipment to do it in Germany. Ain't that the truth?

There's always a special bit of equipment to do anything in the kitchen
which can just as well be done with something in the drawer in the sink
unit innit.

The gadget catalogues are full of bright ideas - you buy one of them, use
it once, then go back to the way you've always done it - quicker, and
usually, better.

This was not a new gadget, it was a very old one, which is probably the
reason that the very elderly German lady who was selling it was able to tell
us what it was for.
There were some strange gadgets there. a wooden thing that looked
interesting and I asked my friend to ask the seller what it was. There
followed a long German conversation, I kept nudging my friend to say "what
does she say it is?" More conversation for ages and eventually I got told
"She doesn't know, it's a thingie..." ;-)
Lots of thingies in that fleamarket.
Tina




Tina