I wonder if Others struggle with opening a bag that for bagging fruit…?
If you don't wet your fingers can you open the plastic bag? this could include bin liners too.
Without Wetting Your Fingers - How Does One Open a Plastic Bag?
ilove on 13/07/2024 - 17:42
Last edited 13/07/2024 - 17:48
Last edited 13/07/2024 - 17:48
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Worked previously in retail, was taught to rub the plastic bag between wrists. Works wonders!
Finger licking good…
wet the plastic bag
rub rub rub
I use ChatGPT.
I take the opening of the bag and rub it between my hands. That usually works.
^^ This. I just place the open side of the bag between my hands, and rub them together as if I have money bags stashed at home.
A drop of hand sanitiser
Just lick the bag .. I mean if you were gonna catch polio you would have got it by now.
so - my summary - find the 1mm overlap, stretch the sides until you see an opening, or rub between your hands or wrists until the Magic Genie appears
What is this forum anymore….
Its very easy.
Stretch the bag slightly between the top left corner and just past the top middle.
The folds separate and can easily be opened.''Its very easy. Stretch the bag slightly between the top left corner and just past the top middle"
but please, sir !
'top left corner' - if the bag has four corners, which is the top left corner please ?
'just past the top middle' - do you mean closer to the other hand, or further from ?
and do you use your teeth, hands, or a special tool … ?
The typical coles, woolworths and aldi bags on a ~11cm roll easily fold out to ~22cm. The real problem lies in separating those layers along the perforated edge.
The front and back sheets are continuous with the inside folded sheets meeting in the middle. By stretching as indicated in my comment above, the front and back sheets stretch and the inside sheets do not.
This action separates the sheets without the need for friction separation that can lead to friction burns or high pressure blowing that can lead to a popped eardrum.
Hope that helps.
blow
Pinch it with both hands, bring it to your mouth and blow steady, till you hear 2600Hz, it'll open and if you'll get a free phone call.
Give it a good blow job.
Tongs and scissors.
I get someone else to wet my fingers
Ask my kid to do it, their hands are usually a bit sweaty or sticky. If they're not with me I just walk over to the veggie section since there usually water there.
During the Covid pandemic, I found the best way to open bags without using any body secretions is via the 1mm overlap method as Hangryuman mentioned above. If you look closely at the sides of most plastic bags, especially the ones from the rolls in the fruit and veg section of the supermarket, one fold is just slightly longer than the other. You should be able to seperate the folds and by doing this near the top of the bag, it should then open up the bag.
Next best option is to pinch one side of the bag and use a small oval sticker from one of the fruits to help seperate the opening.
I hope this post helps people to stop spreading their nasty germs when selecting prime fruits and vegetables. I got sick twice this season already.
Edit: To acknowledge the original commenter Onejay about this method. Apologies I did not see their comment earlier.
I just rip off about an inch of the bag, then it will open with a gap to pull apart … for the little piece of bag that is trapped to my hand with static electricity, I shake my hand to drop-off the little broken piece of bag, then let the Coles cleaners pick them up.
Alternatively during Covid, I used to spit on the bag.
Would love to know the manager at Coles responsible for buying that crap.
Would love to know the manager at Coles responsible for buying that crap.
What would you do if you knew, write an angry letter?
ask him the basis of the decision.
when people have various appendages to wet, why choose a finger?
I assume it's been answered multiple times but by using two fingers on each side of the single layer opening. Push in opposite directions side to side NOT like you are trying to open (eg one up one down). The oils on your fingers cause grip.
The closer to the "corner" of the opening the better.bot will create a little opening which you blow towards from a distance of about 20cm away (this causes more air flow than being close due to fluid dynamics). Your breath will catch the little opening and fill the bag. The smaller the bag the closer you blow, bigger bag further away you blow.
Don't give up as it's all about technique and one day YOU TOO can become a professional bag engineer 😜
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Very sound technique .. Hav a upvote