… but I can’t be there all the time, so I’d suggest that you simply twist off the top. 
Seriously, while I knew folks who could use the “Bic lighter on a beer bottle” hack, I never could. It was easier to use the bottle opener that I always had on my keychain; or when twist-offs were introduced, to twist off the caps.
I bet if I let my loves eat both kinds, somebody would notice a difference.
Nah, Real Men don’t strike matches on their jeans zippers. Real Men strike them on their stubble.
At one point I invested in some strike-anywhere matches (hard to find but it can be done) just to put in my camping kit to cover a SHTF situation. Since then however I discovered that you can light safety matches without the striking strip. You need a near-perfect surface, neither too smooth nor too rough, that will generate enough friction to ignite them. I use a piece of either floor tile or frosted glass.
I use a flat headed screwdriver and whack it with a hammer to make holes in the groove of paint cans. It does work to let the paint drain back in. You just can’t put the lid on right away.
Doesn’t the paint dry out? I can’t imagine wanting to puncture a paint can unless I was sure I’d be using the entire can that day.
The groove is covered by the lid when resealed.
Right. Got it. I wasn’t thinking of that.
Every time I read a thread or article about hacks about boiling eggs I just smile. Eggland’s Best Peeled Hard-Boiled eggs in a pouch. There is almost always a bag in the fridge for when I want egg salad or deviled eggs. No muss, no fuss and most importantly, no stress. Why?
Because like the OP, I’ve never had any of the hacks work 100% of the time. Or even 75%. So fuck it, I’ll spend a little extra and save myself the hassle.
Any deli that has (made on site) egg salad or anything else with a lot of eggs likely has peeled eggs on hand. Ask if you can buy them. At my store we put them in containers for customers to buy, plus we have one or two customers that will buy an entire ‘pouch’ of them at a time. Not even that expensive, especially considering you don’t have to cook or peel them and if you buy 12 eggs, you’ll get all 12 eggs (not paying for anything you broke). I think we sell a 12-pack for like five dollars.
There’s about a 1% chance that some day I’ll be reading a Popular Mechanics and see this one in there, and remember the thread we are having. If so I will be happy to find out how it went!
And here’s an equivalent for garlic:
Must be all that windy weather Up North. Keeps people inside away from the whooshing noises. Well done, especially @Napier .
Or you could just buy one of those $2 snap on/snap off reusable pour lid. works great. Says the guy that just got done painting six rooms, a couple hallways and a three story stairwell.
Only “hack” I’ve ever found to be worth its salt was sliding a butter knife under the rim of a pickle jar to break the airtight seal so you don’t have to be an Olympic arm wrestling champion to open it the first time.
Alternative: doubled sided tape around the outside of the cap. Even the most stubborn caps come off once you have good grip IME
Alternative alternative: lean over and whack the jam or jelly or pickle jar lid hard on the black quarry tile kitchen floor. Also breaks the airtight seal and makes it possible for mere mortals to open. Scares the beejezus out of the unsuspecting dozing nearby roommate though, but is satisfying since I hate that damn quarry tile floor.
Yes, yes, yes! That’s the way I’ve been doing it since I was a little kid, and it never fails to work. I figured it out on my own, but I always thought that’s what everyone did. Instead, I hear all these tips about whacking the jar, or running it under hot water, or saying a prayer to St. Jude, and I’m like, just use a butter knife and pop open the vacuum seal!
And the other half use hacks that even if they work are much more trouble and less effective than the conventional methods.
Whacking on the floor is more fun.
However, I am going to file away the butter knife trick and use it next time. I hear a sigh of relief from my kitchen floor already. Stupid damn floor.