Jul 30, 2012
How to open a can with a knife and some concrete
Short of being homeless, I’m not sure why you’d need this trick, but I’ll just leave this here and let you be the judge of whether it’s pertinent to you…
(Here’s the short version: Scrape the top of the can on concrete till it begins to leak, then pry it open.)
(via Buzzhunt)
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Or forget the scraping and just hack into it with the heavy duty knife you just happen to have in your pocket.
could be a good trick if you were camping or houseless or out somewhere or something and had to open a can even without a knife looks like it would work if he did it more and used a key or many other items….
Did you ever read “Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog)” by Jerome K. Jerome? Hilarious. There’s a great passage where they forget the can opener and go at the canned pineapple with rocks. Unsuccessfully.
Just had to come back here to tell everyone that I actually used this trick this weekend. My friend moved into a new apartment and, while cooking dinner, realized her can opener hadn’t made it through the move. We were already cooking and didn’t want to leave to go to the store so we tried this and it actually worked really well! If you scrap the can longer than he does in the demonstration, the lip pops off easily without any effort.