No more strain opening bottles and jars!
If you have a hard time opening jars, this is your answer. It works on pickle jars down to my little glucose shot bottles. Mounting is a snap. My 96 year old mother told me about this. This a blessing for seniors.
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January 27, 2026
Very Well Designed & Well-Made! But Takes Strength & Not Foolproof Even with Strong Hands.
How many of us have struggled to remove a stubborn jar lid and wondered if it might be easier to just smash the jar? You don’t need to be elderly or to have weak hands—if you’re human, you’ve probably been there. This Uinsan Jar Opener promises to solve that problem.This jar opener is very well made! It is made of thick, solid stainless steel. It has two tracks for opening lids: one for larger jar lids and one for smaller bottle caps. Each has a no-nonsense row of teeth. It is unusual and helpful to include both sizes in one opener! Mounting hardware is included so that it can be mounted under a cabinet for easy access. This is clearly well designed, sturdily constructed product!I fully expected to give it 5 stars, until I tried it out. I tried it on two types of jar lids: the ridged kind that fits over glass threads and the smooth kind that fits over a glass lip. Neither was exactly easy. With both the first time, I strained to open the lids with my still relatively strong woman’s hands. Nothing! The second time, the ridged lid opened easily. The smooth lid never budged. I tried to open the smooth lid multiple times with this jar opener. I strained very hard to turn the lid and made sure I was trying to turn it in the correct direction. (Lefty Loosey, Righty Tighty!). The teeth left visible marks on the lid, so I know the jar opener was gripping the lid. The lid never budged. I tried to open it with my current go-to jar opener—one of the adjustable clamp variety. Still nothing. So this innocent-looking lid is clearly unusually difficult to open. Good test case!I got this jar opener because I am reaching my declining years and often have trouble opening jars. But my hands are still quite strong—as strong, I daresay, as a much younger woman’s. (Maybe not a man’s.) Since my best-ever jar opener could not open that difficult jar either, it is possible that it was just too hard a test. But I was shocked at how much force I had to use the first time to get the process started, and how little effect it had, even on the easy-to-open lid. If that is really what it takes, there is no way a senior with arthritis would be able to use this jar opener successfully! (Minus one star.)Jar openers of this type for seniors or those with weak hands can be had for anywhere from $6.50 to $35. There seem to be two tiers: a cheap tier from about $8 to $15 and a more expensive tier from about $20 to $24. At the list price of $24.99, this jar opener is positioned at the upper end of the expensive tier. But it is also much better quality than most options and is reasonably priced for what it is. How many of us have a drawerful of cheap, failed jar openers? If it works well reliably, it’s totally worth it!But does it work well reliably? This jar opener looks like it has absolutely everything going for it. It is clearly well designed and sturdily built. It can be used loose or mounted under a cabinet. It has tracks to remove both large and small lids. But it still takes a great deal of strength to use, even on easy lids. It balks at the hardest ones. (But so did the best jar opener I have ever had.) This is a good quality jar opener and appropriate for strong, healthy people to use. But there seems to be nothing about it that makes the process easier for those with “weak hands.” Perhaps if they removed that expectation, this would be a 5-star product. Those with “weak hands” really will flip their lid—and not the one the jar opener is trying to open!
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