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🚨 Boring thread alert 🚨 re: tin / can openers

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SwirlyShirly · 12/01/2026 18:11

This evening, I have reached pique mum rage sawing open a can of disgusting hotdogs with a serrated knife after my latest (not entirely inexpensive and robust looking) Salter can opener / tin opener inexplicably self destructed itself across my kitchen.

I don’t know what is done to them when my back is turned, but I seem to go through what, I feel, is an unusually high turnover of can openers. I’m talking one every 3-4 months? I find that illogical and irrational for opening maybe 4/5 cans per week.

I’ve tried the basic metal manual ones, fancy looking ergonomic ones, I’ve tried electric ones, I’ve tried all sorts of brands and unbranded ones.

So now I turn to you, as the hive mind, for your recommendations for the Rolls Royce of can openers - the can opener brand that is the equivalent of the Dualit toaster - indestructible, long living, unproblematic - I care not about the cost nor the aesthetic!!

Thanking you in advance!

OP posts:
BIWI · 13/01/2026 17:55

I’ve gone back to using the kind that @Muchtoomuchtodo posted a photo of. Much more reliable than the fancy one I bought!

SleeplessInsomniac · 13/01/2026 17:56

I bought a bog standard cheap one in aldi about 10 years ago. Was only a couple of quid. Sorry I didn't get a back up one at the time.

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