Corrie Presents: Ways to Open a Can without a Can Opener
Tonight Gayle and I made a simple pizza: tomato paste, goat cheese, garlic, artichoke hearts, sun dried tomatoes and spinach.
Easy… come home from store, lay out the dough, add some olive oil, open the tomato paste… oh wait, my can opener was at Eric’s house!
Do you remember that Looney Tunes episode “Canned Feud” where Sylvester is left at home and desperately searching for the can opener (which the mouse has)? If not, it’s here.
Yeah, that was Gayle and I tonight, although we didn’t try jumping up and down on the can and fortunately, I’ve yet to see a mouse in our apartment. (Knock on wood).
So now let me present: Ways to open a can without a can opener.
A google search provided a few options:
- Use a hammer and a nail puncturing the top of the can and moving in a circle, until the lid comes off.
- Use a flat rock or piece of concrete and rub away the rim. Used by hobos! Thanks eHow!
- Use a knife and saw, saw, saw away!
- Use a metal saw.
- Combination of 1, 2, 3, and/or 4.
Sounds like #5 is right up my alley. Would my dad be proud or sad to know that the first time I used the awesome toolbox he gave me for Christmas was to open a can of tomato paste?
That’s right. We started with a knife (#3) which proved useless until we could get it into the can to saw away, so we busted out a hammer and nail (#1) and made several holes in the top of the can (pictured). We then went back to the knife (#3) and created a slit from the holes which then with the aide of the hammer (back to #1 again) to pry open the top of the can. From there on out we had a hole big enough that the thin handle of a spoon could slowly, painstakingly take about a 1/2 teaspoon of paste out at a time. Success!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you open a can without a can opener.
