{"id":185187,"date":"2024-12-19T19:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T01:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=185187"},"modified":"2026-01-11T20:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:36:33","slug":"6-ways-to-open-a-stuck-jar-lid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/skills\/6-ways-to-open-a-stuck-jar-lid\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Ways to Open a Stuck Jar Lid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-186297\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Open-a-Stuck-Jar-1.jpg\" alt=\"Illustrated guide: six methods to open a stuck jar lid using grip, rubber gloves, a knife, a bottle opener, tapping the lid, and running hot water over it.\" width=\"750\" height=\"1297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Open-a-Stuck-Jar-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Open-a-Stuck-Jar-1-320x553.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Open-a-Stuck-Jar-1-640x1107.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like killing spiders, opening a stubbornly stuck jar lid is a task that the man of the house is often called upon to perform. Sometimes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/health-fitness\/fitness\/molding-a-mighty-grip-strength\/\">your virile grip strength<\/a> is sufficient to solve the issue. But when the lid remains immovable, there are several other techniques that can be called upon to open a jar and gain access to its delicious contents.<\/p>\n<p><em>Illustration by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/storytellersworkshop.com\/\"><em>Ted Slampyak<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like killing spiders, opening a stubbornly stuck jar lid is a task that the man of the house is often called upon to perform. Sometimes, your virile grip strength is sufficient to solve the issue. But when the lid remains immovable, there are several other techniques that can be called upon to open a jar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42259],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-185187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skills"],"featured_image_urls":{"aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Open-a-Stuck-Jar-1-1-346x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Open-a-Stuck-Jar-1-1-320x220.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186300,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185187\/revisions\/186300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185187"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=185187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}