If you’re having trouble opening a jar yourself, TikTok users may have found a solution.
Paul Treyvaud, an Irish restaurant owner and multimedia lifestyle host from Treyvaud Travels and Treyvauds Kitchen, showed his followers how to use a spoon to remove a lid from a hard-to-open jar, and the video went viral, with others testing the hack.
“People with arthritis, the elderly, people who don’t have strength in their hands, that’s a great tip for you,” Treyvaud said at the beginning of his video, which was released on December 20, 2022.
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Treyvaud explained that a household spoon can be used to open a jar of any size if the tip of the utensil is placed under the lid, where a “groove” is built in and sits flush with the mouth of the jar.
Food jars are sometimes difficult to open if you don’t hold the lid tight.
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“The reason these jars are so hard to open is very, very simple, it’s because of the suction power when they close them and that makes it difficult,” Treyvaud said in his video.
“Take a small teaspoon, a small spoon, go into one of the grooves … on the rim of the jar and under the lid and listen,” he added.
He demonstrated the spoon chop with a jar of pickles and showed how to break the seal on the lid.
Treyvaud twisted the lid off with ease and urged viewers to share the video so people can minimize waste and save money instead of buying tools to open jars.
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“I’m using this because of you and it’s awesome!! Thanks for sharing,” a TikTok user wrote to Treyvaud in the comments section on Jan. 7.
“2023 will be a good year, something learned on the first day,” joked another user on New Year’s Day. “364 more tricks to learn.”
Some people rely on jar opener tools to twist off jar lids.
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Content creators on TikTok tested Treyvaud’s hack on camera.
Dustin Hadley, the TikTok user behind the @That40yearguy account, which has more than 699,400 followers at the time of publication, attempted the hack at home with a sauce jar on Jan. 10.
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“They tell me that for 40 years I had to get my wife to open a jar that I could have done,” Hadley said in his 38-second video. “No way.”
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Hadley used a teaspoon to pry the jar’s lid off the built-in groove and the lid came off effortlessly.
“Don’t show this to my girl I still want to be useful lol,” one TikTok user jokingly wrote on Thursday, Jan. 12.
“I wonder why people don’t know this,” commented another user. “I use sometimes [a] knife too [a] Spoon.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Treyvaud and Hadley for comment.
