Best can opener ?

[gentlegreen]

I open one or two cans every day and I've just worn out yet another opener - not sure what I paid for the fancy one perhaps a year ago, but all they had this time was the cheapest kind with a "plough" rather than a cutting wheel - a type I haven't used for many years ...

 

[Silas Loom]

I thought they all had their own ringpulls these days.

 

[gentlegreen]

I thought they all had their own ringpulls these days.

Aldi has gone downmarket and at least a third of the ringpulls used to fail in any case ...

 

[Sue]

I thought they all had their own ringpulls these days.

Not cheap tins of chickpeas alas.

I bought one of these recently. It's a revelation after my last one (which tbf was v cheap and 10 years old).

OXO Good Grips Can Opener - Black

Buy the OXO Good Grips Can Opener - Black at Robert Dyas online. Free Click & Collect on this product or Free Standard Home Delivery when you spend over £30

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[shifting gears]

I’ve got a Culinaire. It opens tins.

Tune in next week for more in-depth reviews

 

[discokermit]

i like the way the electric ones work. i've never had one but i read they take the whole top off the can and you can use it as a lid afterwards. i think they cut through the seam.

eta, like this,

 

[JimW]

Those ones with a wheel that cut under the rim and leave a dangerous edge.

 

[planetgeli]

Dunno mate but I visited some posh friends recently and they had one that left no sharp edges at all. It was seriously impressive. Probably costs more than £1.99 though.

 

[Epona]

Not cheap tins of chickpeas alas.

I bought one of these recently. It's a revelation after my last one (which tbf was v cheap and 10 years old).

OXO Good Grips Can Opener - Black

Buy the OXO Good Grips Can Opener - Black at Robert Dyas online. Free Click & Collect on this product or Free Standard Home Delivery when you spend over £30

www.robertdyas.co.uk

Yep, budget own brand ranges (Savers, Essentials, Simply as per the various supermarkets) tend not to have ring pulls, at least not all of them, it's one of the things that makes them cheaper - the tins are cheaper to produce.

I second this suggestion of an OXO tin opener, I've had one for years and it's still going strong.

 

[Sue]

Those ones with a wheel that cut under the rim and leave a dangerous edge.

I see you met my last tin opener...

 

[discokermit]

Dunno mate but I visited some posh friends recently and they had one that left no sharp edges at all. It was seriously impressive. Probably costs more than £1.99 though.

leccy ones leave no sharp edge.

 

[hash tag]

Surely dessiato is the person to ask.

 

[cesare]

Got one of these, no sharp edges and left handed people can use them easily too.

 

[stavros]

I've only got Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi, so I'd have to say whatever the first tracks on them are.

 

[freshapple]

Waitrose do a nice cheapish one

 

[dessiato]

Surely dessiato is the person to ask.

We use ring pull cans, but we don't use much canned food except anchovies.

 

[Elpenor]

I have a culinare one and it’s a doddle. In fact I have two as I used to keep one at work as well

 

[Fez909]

As sad as it is, I've been looking for a good tin opener for ages. I stumbled on this fella's channel a while back and ended up watching this 20 minute video on tin opener history and mechanics. I now want one of these.

 

[pogofish]

I've got a Cullinaire Magic-Can that wasn't at all expensive and has very reliably opened a lot of tins over many years and a very old Yates-style blade opener that I inherited from my Gran, which has been opening tins for even longer.

Cheap-shit butterfly openers wear out in no time IME.

 

[krtek a houby]

We use ring pull cans, but we don't use much canned food except anchovies.

Same with the ring pull cans. Especially like the ones with the key you can roll the can around.

 

[Spymaster]

Cheap-shit butterfly openers wear out in no time IME.

My parents had these when I was a kid and I’ve never felt the need to use anything else. They do a simple job effectively. I did once have one disintegrate in my hands but at .99p each, who cares? I think I may have bought 3 or 4 in my life, so that’ll likely equate to a lifetime of tin opening for under a tenner

 

[Steel Icarus]

Trusty OXO

 

[gentlegreen]

My parents had these when I was a kid and I’ve never felt the need to use anything else. They do a simple job effectively. I did once have one disintegrate in my hands but at .99p each, who cares? I think I may have bought 3 or 4 in my life, so that’ll likely equate to a lifetime of tin opening for under a tenner

In a way I'm glad they only had the cheap type as it has forced me to use one for the first time in maybe 10 years and it works so well I wonder if it's as much about accessibility as anything else and whether the "plough" is forge-hardened or needs to be ...
I wonder if my parents ever bought a second Prestige-branded one of these - apart from the very occasional can of fruit, it was just occasional canned tomatoes in a family that only ate cooked meals at the weekend...

I'm trying not to buy stuff while I'm still living here and when I move, returning to cooking my own beans from dry will be a feature of my life - plus I have a lot of chickpeas and lentils I need to start cooking now that I have a fridge...

 

[Cid]

As sad as it is, I've been looking for a good tin opener for ages. I stumbled on this fella's channel a while back and ended up watching this 20 minute video on tin opener history and mechanics. I now want one of these.

Technology connections taught me that brown is orange without the light, for which I will always be grateful. Well, without the contrast.

I would like to take this opportunity to suggest both the good grips garlic crusher, and the good grips veg peelers. The garlic crusher is a particular highlight with it's simple flip to purge action.

 

[pogofish]

My parents had these when I was a kid and I’ve never felt the need to use anything else. They do a simple job effectively. I did once have one disintegrate in my hands but at .99p each, who cares? I think I may have bought 3 or 4 in my life, so that’ll likely equate to a lifetime of tin opening for under a tenner

Yes but it is almost a given that they will fall to bits when you have no alternative food at hand or you are camped up a hill, miles from anywhere..! I have ended up trying to hacksaw a tin open before or fall back on the opener on my pen knife, which as a left hander, seems better designed for cutting open fingers than opening tins!

 

[ouirdeaux]

I'm a right-hander. It's not much better.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

These. £5.50 from Amazon, bit more from Argos, think mine came from a supermarket. Absolutely no need to spend more.

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[UnderOpenSky]

I thought they all had their own ringpulls these days.

Spot the people who don't need to buy own brands.

 

[Raheem]

They have decent openers on most of their albums, but it has to be either Pinch or Paperhouse really, doesn't it?

 

[Saul Goodman]

These. £5.50 from Amazon, bit more from Argos, think mine came from a supermarket. Absolutely no need to spend more.
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I've had one of those for about ten years, but due to all the tins I buy having ring pulls, I haven't used it for some time, although it did work last time I used it... about ten years ago