Save me please from death by can openers: Give me one that bloomin works...

[DrNortherner]

.. I don't car how much it costs.

I hate the feckers too

have ended up just buying a few cheapos at a time, then after a few months one will break, so I get out the next one etc

gah

That's whay I've been doing, buty I've ran out of cheapies and just wrestled with a tin of chopped toms for 10 minutes

There must be another way surely?

get one of these

Iota that looks suspiciously like one I have done battle with already.

Is it me? Do I need tin opening lessons?

I'm left handed and don't get on with tin openers at all. Always buy cans with ring pulls is my motto

it must be you DrN

mine has lasted for ages

or maybe I hardly ever use tins as I ALWAYS cook from scratch

or maybe not

This one is fab.
www.amazon.co.uk/Culinare-Magican-White-Can-Opener/dp/B000SUMDCK/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=11 98862579&sr=1-8

i have the one iota linked to. i've had it 10years and its fine still.

ours was fine until we got a dishwasher....I think they wreck the turning mechanisms. We only hand wash ours now. If you have dishwashed them give it a try not to!?

get an electric one here. i cant use can openers, can arthritus in my hands, and find this so much easier to use.

Try the one from ikea - cheap and works wonderfully easily. Although my husband swears it's a deathtrap because it slices the top off the can, leaving a sharp edge.

you want one even cheaper than that. no plastic bits (i can't use those, so must be the opener). just a plain metal one, i think i got one at asda. works a charm, no more effing when trying to open cans now.

dh's nan has the culinare one as above and loves it. She also has arthritus. around £17 iir.

Also recommend electric openers - I've gone through loads of the manual ones over the years, when the last one gave up the ghost I found an old electric one at the back of the cupboard - thought I would just use it until I bought a new manual one but it is sooo much easier to use (maybe it's my advancing years ) that I've kept using it.....

magic-can are fanatstic

in the sale in woolworths for £5 rather than £10 at the moment. (saw them today)

the ones at my dads are now at least 15 years old and still work perfectly