Discount 💯 Swing-A-Way Comfort Grip Jar Opener, Black, 7.5-Inch 😀

8 reviews for Discount 💯 Swing-A-Way Comfort Grip Jar Opener, Black, 7.5-Inch 😀

1. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Tiger – May 30, 2021

   Both my wife and I find this a lot easier to open spaghetti sauce jars that I do nearly daily. It doesn’t take much thinking and is pretty intuitive to use. It gives you a LOT more leverage to open jars than you would just grabbing with your hand. And it holds pretty well too. It still requires two hands, one to hold, and the other uses the tool as a lever, and it requires about 90% less effort. Before getting this tool, I started to get shooting pains in my wrist when the jar lid finally came loose and started to seem like I might be causing a repetitive injury. A lever is based on physics, and allows you to spend much less effort turning something by applying force further out from center, similar to a lower gear on a bicycle takes less effort to go up a hill, or what any wrench actually does to a bolt. It seems very sturdy and well made.To use, slide open enough and just loosely set it atop the jar lid. Then slide the handle towards the to take up they slack and the latch under the handle will fall into place at the closest hole, but doesn’t need to be tight at this point. Squeeze the handle with one hand to close up any gap and let the two teeth grab onto the lid, even if it digs in a little bit and keep holding. Then turn the lever with that hand while holding the jar with your other hand, and it should come lose a LOT easier than with just your hand. If you want to spend more effort aligning it and less on squeezing the handle, it might be possible to set the latch under the handle into the hole that perfectly sizes for your jar lid (if it matches), and when put on the lid it will hang on by practically by itself.However, it is still harder on sealed jars that haven’t popped the lid yet, but easier than by hand. For an un-popped sealed lid, I find the using the tight pin position closest to the lid and squeezing enough to deform the lid slightly helps to break the seal, and then it turns easily. It does leave the two teeth marks in the lid, which still works fine to close and store a partially used jar in the refrigerator. But I wouldn’t use this on any lid you want to keep forever. This is meant for a disposable jar that you would use up and recycle eventually, and ok to deform the lid slightly. If I had one complaint, is that the rubber sleeve on the handle easily slips off so I pay a little attention to not pull out on it in use.

2. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Lifelong Reader – August 6, 2022

   This jar opener was rated #1 by America’s Test Kitchen. When it arrived in the mail, I wondered whether ATK had made a mistake, as this thing feels like it cost 10 cents to make. But ATK was right–this baby works on all kinds of jar lids. It’s not hard to use this opener, although it takes a couple times to get the hang of attaching and holding the opener to the lid. With minimal pressure, the jar lid will turn. That’s great, given how tight manufacturers are making lids these days. One thing to remember–after you’ve attached the opener to the jar lid, turn the opener COUNTER-clockwise. If you turn the opener clockwise, it won’t turn the jar lid.

3. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Amazon Customer – September 21, 2022

   OK, it’s a little goofy, but it does work. The plastic sleeve comes off of the handle is a negative. The way it works is by denting the lid to break the vacuum, and then the lid turns off easily. I made a mark on the adjustment so I’d know where it needed to be, since I am using it on the same salsa jars all the time. It does have to be set every time, but with the mark, that’s made easy.

4. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   goin2games – October 23, 2022

   I’ve tried all sorts of jar openers, but this one is by far the best. It fits all sizes of lids and quickly enables them to pop off, no matter how weak your grip is! I haven’t found a jar yet that this didn’t work on, and it’s always very quick, too!

5. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Patricia AB – November 13, 2022

   My aging hands are having a harder time opening jars. I saw this demonstrated on America’s Test Kitchen and purchased it at this site in 2014. It takes a little fiddling to get it adjusted on the jar lid, but there are pretty much no jars I cannot open at this point. I’ve opened milk bottles and juice cartons with it, and those caps are small. The handle is long enough and the size adjustable enough that you can really get a grip on the cap and leverage to turn the cap. Remember you are turning counter clockwise. It looks a little wonky and flimsy, but it is not.

6. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Old Dude – November 16, 2022

   Bought this to replace one we had for over 40 years and it works as great as previous one. Wife can open jars easily.

7. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Craig’s 50s – November 23, 2022

   A lot of times I’ll buy something significantly influenced by how it looks. Have several bottle openers in drawer that look nice but don’t work and sometimes seriously mangle the top. This works. Not the nicest looking, more like something that belongs in shop or garage, BUT it has a favored space on counter. Tiny hot sauce bottles, wide mouth marinara bottles which are the worst, Gatorade, metal or plastic tops, nothing is unopenable with this little gem. Amazon asked if it was giftable. Hard to answer that. Normally you’d want to gift something that looks nice, and this does not, but for a serious function-before-form cook I’d say yes.

8. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Stevie Strickland – November 30, 2022

   Owned one many years ago lost it when I moved. It’s the best, it will open even the hardest of jars big or small also easy to use..