GOURMET NEWS

Innovative Lug EEASY Lid Promises to Make Products More Accessible to Consumers

BY A.J. FLICK

Who hasn’t struggled to open a vacuum-sealed jar? From tapping the lid with a knife, banging it on a counter, heating it, freezing it to using one of innumerable jar openers before giving up, it’s safe to say that most of us have – and have numerous gadgets we bought to open jars in the kitchen junk drawer

“It took them over 10 years, ” said Brandon Bach, Jim Bach’s son and president of Consumer to is called the EEASY Lid, which CCT hails as “the first jar lid innovation in over 75 years ”

The path that led to EEASY Lid began when Stodd heard how a cancer sur vivor struggled to open jars, but the experience is much larger and more global than that

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Then someone had the brilliant idea that perhaps the industr y doesn’t need more jar openers It needs a better lid That’s easier said than done, which two men who set out to invent a better lid – Jim Bach and Pete Stodd learned

Convenience Technologies “It was quite an adventure bringing this to market ”

The product that Bach referred

“In the world’s population itself, out of 8 billion people, 1 billion have some sort of disability,” Brandon Bach said “In the U S population, 19 percent

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