Please recommend a can opener that works?

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I think I must have been through 10 can openers in the last year, the last two I got didn't even work! Please please please.. recommend a good fool proof can opener that won't stop after a week!

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I brought my PrimAcc can opener online, really good quality and well worth the price.

Oxo Good Grips, best one I have ever used.

www.amazon.co.uk/OXO-Good-Grips-Handled-Opener/dp/B00004OCJW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489933586&sr=8-1&keywords=oxo+good+grips+can+opener&tag=mumsnetforum-21

I have one of these, can't remember how long I have had it - quite possibly 10 plus years!

www.amazon.co.uk/Culinare-MagiCan-Can-Opener-White/dp/B000SUMDCK?tag=mumsnetforum-21

I've got something similar to this one. I'm left handed and struggle with manual tin openers.

I've had the above one for about ten years.

OXO Good Grips. I think all of their kitchen accessories are brilliant quality - chunky, well made, last AGES.

I try all sorts but keep,going back to the cheap butterfly ones.

Another vote for OXO Good Grips here.

I've got a Brabantia one now which was about 7 quid that works well after having spunked at least a tenner a year away in the past fews years on various shit ones.

Yes to Magican.

Another GoodGrips fan.

I have had a Branbantia for so long I can't remember how old it is, but at least 15 years. Works fine.

Goodgrips a here too!

I was going to pimp mine but it's out of stock. Mine is a Holm, it's a side opener so there are no sharp edges. I've wasted money on at least two can openers that didn't do the job so I appreciate having one that does.

It looks very similar to this one

Nogent 3 Star Super-Kim 4030 G Tin Opener www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001E05WQM/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_TUUZyb77R417T?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Got this after having same experience as you.its fab

I have a Good Grips one but it doesn't always work first time for me. I've come to the conclusion that I'm just not very good at using a can opener

The grimace was supposed to go at the end of my post.

I've got the Kuhn Rikon one like Poltergoose, its ace. I got it from TK Maxx so wasn't as pricey as the link but we've had it a good couple of years and it is still going strong.

The no sharp edges is a real plus too, tho it took a while to work out how to use it because it cuts the tin in a different place to traditional tin openers and we thought it wasn't doing anything!

Another vote for the Kuhn. I've had mine for 10+ years. Never lets me down. I love how it leaves no sharp edges.