The new plastic 6-pack holders suck and ruin my nails. What's your best way of removing cans from these things?
Picture of new 6pack holders
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Posted Nov 29, 2016, 2:44 AM UTC · edited
Pull the cans apart from each other. Don't pull the holder away from the cans.
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I know this isn't the answer you want to hear, but I'll say it anyway. Don't buy 6-packs of beer which have plastic holders. Either you buy beer in other packaging or stop drinking beer (drink wine or spirits or juice or water). You don't have to subject yourself and your nails to the beer & it's plastic holders.
scissors
A knife! Cut away from the can.....but not like directly towards your body either.
Weigh the pros and cons of what you'd rather slice.
Grab the can and rotate it as though you were trying to turn it upside down. It takes some force but removes your fingernails from the equation.
Yeah this. Don't try to remove the six pack holder from the beer. Remove the beer from the holder. Just grab a can and pull it to the side and then up. Use the can as a lever and it breaks free fairly easily (although a bit harder than the older style plastic rings).
Found the beer drinkers!
but what about the last beer?
Never had a problem. Grab the beer, grab the six pack holder, apply leverage.