Have you ever tried to use someone else’s can opener? Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like every can opener design is a little bit different, and getting that interlocking gear blade thingy to line up just right is never as easy as it should be.
After fiddling with the unfamiliar can opener for ten minutes, you are about to give up when you finally puncture the metal and excitedly start cranking around the can. Then, when you have the can open, only seconds away from enjoying delicious tuna, you cut yourself on the piece of jagged metal and have to go to the hospital to get a tetanus shot. You never get to eat your tuna.
Can openers are in general horribly designed death traps, deserving of the title of ergonomic nightmare of the week.
A couple years ago I came across a new type of can opener that opens up the can by actually breaking the seal between the lid and the can without cutting it at all. What is left is an in tact lid with totally smooth edges. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
Since then I have been seeing more and more of these so-called “smooth edge†can openers. Unfortunately, since the concept is so new, every brand that makes one comes out with their own unique design, so there is somewhat of a learning curve to figuring out how to use it. Which brings me back to my first point…never try to use someone else’s can opener.
This smooth edge can opener got a good review:
Beth says:
The handle size is so perfect that this is THE can opener for anyone with arthritis or carpel tunnel syndrome. There are no sharp edges, whatsoever, and there is absolutely no possibility of the can top falling down into the can and contaminating its contents.Truly a simple little kitchen gadget that one must have – and one which you will not be able to go without having after using it just once or twice.
I’ll second this nominee. I have one of the older type can openers, which was a very cheap one. Like they say, you get what you pay for. What I hate the most is when the can opener refuses to cut parts of the lid as it goes around and so you’re left with the lid being attached in two or three spots keeping you from removing the lid. When this happens I have to use the can opener with a stabbing technique to break the points where the can opener didn’t work right. When it does break free I’m lucky if the soup or whatever is in the can doesn’t splash everywhere.
I’ll have to look around for one of the lid release models. Some things are worth the extra buck.
Lol! I think my absolute worst experience was when my can opener broke after I had already punctured a can of tuna. The only option I had was to use one of those can openers designed just to put one hole in the can and pour the contents out. I punctured it all the way around and ended up a piece of metal shaped like a ninja star.
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has anyone tried the one touch can opener? http://www.lnt.com/sm-as-seen-on-tv-one-touch-can-opener–pi-2295733.html i’d like to try it but on a limited budget now, being out of work. the oxo one looks good too, but the less turning i have to do the better.
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A few years ago I bought a Rosle can opener, a premium priced kitchen and well designed gadget that I thought would last a lifetime. It too, cuts around the side of the tin, not the top.
Just last week, the handle broke - and I ended up buying a $4 opener from my supermarket so I could make my salmon sandwich.
I think I’ll mail the opener back to the company, and let them know how disappointed I was at having this product break on me. Perhaps my expectations were to high to expect a product to last a long time.
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I read similar article also named omic Nightmare of the Week: Can Openers at The Ergonomenon, and it was completely different. Personally, I agree with you more, because this article makes a little bit more sense for me
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