Do Any Can Openers Work Right Anymore?
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- I just bought a can opener at Wal-Mart and once again, it works like crap. But I found an old favorite on Amazon and I compare them here.
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Swing-A-Way Comfort Grip Can Opener: www.amazon.com...
i've never seen someone speak so passionately about can openers before
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Life isn't the same with crappy can openers!!! We need made in the 🇺🇸 can openers that work correctly. Come on USA
Well, if you ever had one that didn't work, you'd understand.
Totally share your frustration! Bought a Swing-A-Way and it was rusty and failing in less then 2 months. Was going to buy an EZ-DUZ-IT instead but am seeing comments saying it's junk in a few months as well. So the search continues.
Had never succeeded with a can opener. This is the video that did it for me! Thank you! ✨
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This has been driving me mad recently, thank you for the suggestion!
Happy to help!
Thanks for the info and demo. This is exactly the kind of problem most people dismiss as unimportant. But how're you going to prep if you can't open your cans? My electric works pretty consistently, but I often have problem with my manuals. They work decently on larger cans, but I CANNOT get them to work for my small, 6 ounce cans. (I like some tomato paste now and then.) I will definitely order a Swing-Away, maybe a couple.
Weather electric, or manual the can opener is not the problem. It's the cans themselves. I began noticing it in the mid/later 1980s. Producers of canned goods began making the lip of the can that the opener grips thinner and thinner to save a micro-fraction of a penny per can. Probably reducing the cost of each can somewhere in the 100ths, or even thousandths of a penny. The lip on todays cans are too thin for openers to grip effectively for one. Even if you do manage to get a bite on it, the lip is much to thin and weak still, it crushes as soon as you start to turn the crank. I long for the good ole days, when we were smart enough to make a can that we could open, and companies didn't pinch every 1000th of a penny they can get out of a tin can. Honestly, I didn't mind paying that extra 1/1000th of a penny, bring back the good cans.
My farberware shit the bed, bottom gear teeth totally worn out. Went to salvation army ,found a old "Swing away "made in USA for a $1 ok,I'm frugal..lol..someone even said those are good openers. I cleaned up the crud and it works great. So here I am looking up some history and reviews on it.
Good video!
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Swing a way crank with handle. Best in the world. Crank handle!!!
P38 or p51 for me. Cheap and good. Lol I gave up on other can openers. I can use the p38 or p51 even with carpal tunnel so it's where I'm staying
I think it's the way they make cans. For me the parts that don't work are exactly across from each other. It must be some safety measure in effect these days
You're right with the quality of can openers these days. We had a can opener back in the 80's, I think we already had it when I wasn't born yet, I just turned 40 yesterday. So back with that old can opener. It's nothing special, I think my parents bought it at the market for cheap, like less than a dollar cheap even for the 80's pricing. That can opener lasted like for 2 decades or more before it finally gave out. Come 2000's and beyond. Every can opener we bought almost immediately broke gradually, like the first replacement can opener we bought as a for our 80's can opener lasted probably a year then every can opener we bought gradually fails, some just lasts 6mos, 3mos, 3 weeks, a week and worse some fail after just a day or just flat out wouldn't work at all. I miss our old 80's can opener. It may be the most cheapest of all the can openers we've had but it really served us well. It was made locally here in my country and after I think Clinton opened up with Globalization back in the 90's, a lot of super duper low quality stuff from China flooded not just the US but around the globe. I wish that we have more domestic manufacturing of goods back here in my country, I really hate low quality Chinese stuff.
I know. This opener is the closest one that I can find to the one that I grew up with and lasted forever. I have been using it for a year now and still happy with it.
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I’m going through can openers after 5 to 6 uses after which they’re not good. They don’t get a good grip on the lid. I’ve bought some from Target and Safeway which cost between $12-18 and they’re all the same. They lose their effectiveness after 5 uses. I’d rather not take any chances on buying a more expensive can opener only for it to end up useless after a short while.
Well the ones that I used here have been working just fine for the past 2 years. That's insanely good these days.
Seems to me that cans were redesigned with a deeper rim than the old style.
Let us know how long those swing-aways work!
I got several of the old Ecko can openers that were made 50 to 60 years ago that work better than the modern can openers
I believe it.
I have four different can openers and none of them work well.
@2:00 There's been a recent trend to say that using a can opener horizontally is the "correct" way to open a can. It's false.
That's only true for certain can openers-the safety style can opener, which are designed for cutting the side of the can. The disadvantage of cutting the side of the can is that the metal is thicker there and it wears down the can opener blade quicker.
Anyway, I made a vow years ago to have a few good can openers in different styles. Because I swear people you live with will lose the nice one, and then you'll get a new one and most are such bad quality they break easily. I'm here because a Family Dollar brand cheapo one failed after opening three cans and a more expensive Swing a Way style one from Simple Living broke within weeks or each other.
Finding a quality, lasting can opener shouldn't be this hard in 2022.
Going thru the same thing....
are those 2" long metal shards!!!!????
No, the paper label is being cut
Him almost swears apologises. Me looking at the garbled list of obscenities screamed at Google to get to this video...
I hate my can opener gonna buy me a new can opener.
thanks
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95% of the can opener’s that are sold in the stores today are defective and will only last a few regularly use them for a couple of weeks or maybe a month - Truth is there a piece of crap - - some of the electric ones really are the best ones to use
Can openers are so bad that I had to look up videos about why there so bad that’s how frustrated I am with these stupid things
They are very bad, but I have had great success with this one.
All my can openers die so quickly and are rendered utterly useless. It’s such a hassle having to buy new ones alllll the time
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problems with can openers today is its made of crap metal. they will only last a year . the metal gears get grinded bent shaved off
...Belch....
The answer is no. None of them work anymore. And there's no way that this is a coincidence.
The overlap between the gear and the cutting wheel is just not deep enough for some cans. This is more pronounced after the teeth of the gear is worn off or if they cut into the the rim of the can.
The manufacturers can fix them easily increasing the overlap but somehow it's just not done.
I've been going crazy trying to figure out what the hell has happened to can openers! Thanks for the swing away tip. Is it possible that there's been some subtle design change in the lip of the cans?
Another viewer mentioned that they believed there was a design change on the cans. That the lip had gotten slightly thinner. I can't confirm that, but it would make sense.
Unfortunately the Swing a Way is no good either--mine got rusty and useless in less then 2 months.
@@scrane5500 Was yours USA or China made?
Feel you.. Having same issue, appeciate the video
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I've bought two in the past month and neither worked from new. That's why we're all here. Kind of a metaphor for our society now. 🤔
We are having issues with both the handheld and the electric can openers. I'll be trying out these swing-a-ways to see if it improves. I'd still like to find an electric can opener because I sometimes have to cook for an army and twisting, twisting, twisting eventually gets my arm cramping. Now that I'm mid-forties, it's getting rough. lol
I've been going thru this frustration! Try for thevideo
Thank you for the video. Yes, I have an electric that works fine except when storms take the power out. Now, I can get a reliable can opener that won’t add frustration to a bad situation, without having to test them all myself.
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I've been using a leatherman surge to open my cans for the past 2 years. It is the most reliable method ever. Just don't use it on big cans and don't try to use it as a pry for any of those big cans because it will snap, fortunately it only costs 22 bucks to replace it.
Cans have been redesigned and not even the expensive Magican works.
The only one that works is the 50p all metal one.
Thanks for the info.
I assume you are on the payroll for Swingaway?
I can't tell if you are being serious or not.
I’m convinced that can openers are poorly engineered in general. They ware out way to fast and are unintuitive to first time user’s. Same goes for the electric ones. I refuse to believe that we as a species can’t design a better can opener or a better storage solution in general
pov:
you're in your early-mid 20s with a low class income trying to figure out why your can opener won't open your last can of beans until you get payed in 2 days just to go get some more beans and forget the new can opener
The second way is the correct way. The lid doesn't fall in.
My old opener became dull after 20+ years so I threw it out, just went through 2 openers and returned them. Now my 3rd opener from Amazon which is a Swing-A-Way Portable Can Opener is skipping and going to return this as well. I'm pissed and might just buy an electric opener, nothing is made good anymore! Should have kept my old one and tried sharpening the blade. I thought I was the only one having bad luck, Thanks for the video !!!
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Thank the maker! I was beginning to think it was just me. Had 2 can openers, 1 new, one very old. The new ones don't work at all, and the old one quit working as well. Bought a brand new Farberware, did not work right from the start?! Finally I bought a battery powered on that "separates" can top from can. Love it! Goes through batteries fast, though? I'm thinking of buying a P-38 (also called a John Wayne) just to have something that always works....
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We had given up finding a good can opener ever again. I was using an old US Army P38 can opener that came with the rations.
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