Sales Rank: 7185


Features:

Made in China

Opens cans of any size safely and easily

Patented Lid Gripper for no-touch lid removal

Break-resistant white plastic with tempered steel cutting blades

Hand wash

Average Rating:
Rating: - Safest best can opener I've ever used
If you have young children or you are accident-prone, then this can opener is the one to buy. First, it's not like the can openers you are used to and it took a little getting used to. This is a can opener about finesse, not muscle. Some folks have said they got metal in the food from its use, I can only image that happened from mishandling the opener. We've *never* had that happen - the food perfectly safe for my 2 year old daughter to eat. The cut can does not have any sharp edges (not that I let my daughter play with cans) but if she got ahold of one, there would be little problem. You don't have to wash off the lid of the can before opening it because the lid doen't fall into the food! It's a time saver too.

The things to know are:
0) Get the opener on the lid correctly (parallel to the lid)
1) Stop when you feel when the opener has completed 1 revolution of the can
2) Use the little grabbers built into the can opener to pull off the top.

It's that simple. I will never go back to the outdated can openers.

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Rating: - Takes some getting used to, but you'll never go back...
These trendy "safety" can openers... Er, "lid lifters," take a bit of getting used to when you have a lifetime of experience with regular manual can openers. Seriously, it took a good two months or so of regular can opening before I actually got the hang of this outstanding little gadget.

But once you develop new habits with this new tool, you'll never go back to a conventional opener. Most lids come right off with ease, but the small lid gripper feature can always be used to bring a little extra force into play for those stubborn lids that want to stick.

The safety aspects may (or may not) be over-rated, but that's certainly one plus. (Personally, I never found cuts and scrapes to be an issue with conventional openers.)

As others have pointed out, perhaps the best "feature" of this device is its ability to handle very large food service cans and tiny little tomato paste cans with equal aplomb. And in all cases, there's never an issue of lids falling into the canned product (which always happened with regular can openers, especially when I failed to wipe the dust off the top!).

In any event, no kitchen is complete without a decent can opener, and the Kuhn Rikon is a particularly nice (and inexpensive) one.

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Rating: - the hardest can opener
I'm sure that this is a wonderful can opener if you can figure out how to use it. I recieved mine as a gift, and neither the giver, myself, or my husband can figure out how to use the thing. I was told that the instructions could be copied from the internet, but who can find them?