With my cottage cheese containers I used a phillips screwdriver, hung the container a little over the edge of the workbench and stabbed like a serb. Worked great and felt good.
“...and stabbed like a serb. Worked great and felt good.”
LOL! You need to patent that method and sell it to people with anger issues, LOL!
That has to be a Phillips screwdriver with a sharp tip.
There are actually 2 different standards, the Japanese JIS spec, and the ISO “standard” spec. I vastly prefer the JIS spec, for the screw and driver, as it is much less likely to “cam out” in application (for driving screws). Then various manufacturers miss the specs by different amounts.
I’m guessing you used a PH1 size, and it is on the “sharp” end of the spectrum. I have one at least PH1 screwdriver that would collapse a cottage cheese container before it punctured it, but some others would likely work.
I also have multiple Philips screwdrivers that I should just turn into awls with my grinding wheel, as the tips are too worn to be useful for much else. That would help alleviate my “Where is that dang awl?” business...