Lessons from a Can Opener
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Even though it was patented back in the 80’s, it’s still cutting edge technology.
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I see what you did there.
So is my lawn mower lol
Ba dum tsshhh
Can you explain?
Now I expect a video on cans. From the hard soldered ones, that could be quite dangerous if done improperly, through the war year ones, to the modern ones with liners that essentially eliminate problems with botulism. And all the rabbit holes to square cans, flat cans, integrated openings, whether key, pop top, etc, to the self heating cans for military, and survival use. Easily another video or two in there.
Check out engineerguy! He’s got some good stuff on cans
A can-do start to the year!
100% would watch
Then the video on can-openers would have been invented before the video on cans!
Dang it, now that you've invoked cans so much, I'm bound to get the Engineerguy video on the evolution of the aluminum drink can in my sidebar again and go on another total binge of his channel. It happens once or twice a year.
also on the "someone will have taught you how to use a can opener" assumption, I want you to picture three 20 year olds standing around a kitchen counter trying to figure out how to open a can of tomato paste bc somehow all three of them were never taught how to use a can opener. That is one of my most formative life experiences
That generation will just Google that and find some video like this one teaching them.
Did you do it as my neighbor across the street did when she just moved in? I watched her hit the can with quite some force for a long 20 minutes. Other kitchen utensils were used too.
It's quite sad when people don't know how to do simple things like that when the parents should have taught them. Currently im 25 and I was taught at 7 how to use one.
@@Wtrxprs007able Absolutely. But it's also a beautiful thing to watch a full grown human in the process of connecting the dots.
@@Wtrxprs007able Some people have kinda shitty parents. Or sometimes even parents who aren't shitty but don't know how to do things. That's why it's important for basic life skills to also be available to be taught... outside of schools. Not like that happens though...
I love the concept of Toxic Midwesterninty. My mother grew up in a house where her father literally would add new rooms from industrial or construction cast-offs, and impressive though it was, her attitude of "you can literally get by in ljfe using garbage" often was at odds with great outcomes. I appreciate her lessons on making do with literally whatever you have, and I am sure it made me actively more creative. But I am also proud that just last month I stared at the 25-year-old speakers I was once again fiddling with to get sound to come out of both at once, and suddenly said "fuck this" and threw them away and bought new ones. It was like $20 to solve a problem I had at least weekly. It was revelatory.
Opportunity Cost
To fill a need for free you need knowledge and time. But money is time, as a man in his twenties your time is better put into work than fiddling around trying to repair what’s broken. They don’t make stuff like they used to and now we live in a world where nothing lasts, everything is disposable
Car maintenance for example. If I knew all the inter workings of my car I could buy cheap parts from the scrap yard and put ‘em in myself, but my time is better spent making money to pay someone to worry about my car’s maintenance
Literally
I'd rather people be " Toxically Midwestern" than inept consumers who have absolutely no applicable mechanical or carpenter skills and can't be self sufficient without cheap, wasteful, and polluting disposable chinese electronics. It's funny because people will be against large corporations removing our autonomy yet make comments like these to berate those that are independent. I guess the comfort and convenience of wasteful urban living has infected the mentality of the newer generations to a point they'd sacrifice everything for it.
There is a feeling of gratification that comes from repairing something, or even building something from scratch regardless where the materials are sourced from.
6:01 - I was wondering how that soda can fell with no sound, but then I remembered Alec is in a frictionless vacuum.
Nice catch
Love your raspi vids
I wouldn't be surprised if he did a clever voice over in editing just in that part to mask out the can noise, it seems unlikely but you can't rule anything out in this channel
I'm not even using headphones and I can hear a light thud after he's thrown it.
@@zaixai9441 my volume is all the way up and i can't hear a thing. im also deaf.
@@tomascarrasco371 I've set up some interesting contraptions in the past to deaden the sound of tossed-on-video objects. Just a large throw rug in a big box (and a few takes so you actually hit it and not the box) is usually enough for lighter objects ;)
"Assume a standard can in a frictionless vacuum." This, this right here is why I love your videos. Thank you!
Problem is: a standard can opener does not not in a frictionless vacuum. Or, maybe, that is a deeper level of the joke...
As long as you don't asume a spherical one...
I giggled far too hard at that
For me, it was "...baked beans..."
4:56 I cackled when Mr Technology Connections said that.
My parents got one similar to this like thirty years ago and it's pretty much all I grew up on. I could never understand why my friends' families didn't also use them, since they're so obviously superior. I even recall cutting myself on a can at a friend's house and yelling something like, "God damn it, tell your family to get a real can opener!!"
The risk of metal shavings entering the food is scary. Makes me wonder whether it is a build/design quality matter of the tool.
@@Dowlphin I haven't had problems with shavings. It builds strong intestines!
@@DowlphinThe thought of metal shavings in my stomach doesn't make me cringe like the thought of that lid slicing my finger open.
@@joekenorer That is foolish, Mr. Papercut Terror.
@@Dowlphineven if a tiny bit of metal got in the food, it's completely non toxic. it'll just corrode a bit and pass right though. they are also way to thin and flimsy to cut you even from the inside.
I have a standard can opener but my life changed when I learned you can also cut the lid seam with them like the safety opener does! If you clamp the wheels to the inner and outer sides of the lip, so the handles both are parallel to the lid, it pops the whole top off cleanly! Makes me crazy that I could have been doing that my whole life.. Thank you for shining a light on such over looked and ever faithful kitchen utensils!
In fact, they were originally designed to cut through the side of the can below the seam rather than through the lid, similar to old-style cans with a key that pealed off a strip of the side of the can. And they're actually less effort and more reliable to use that way. Everybody's been using them wrong this whole time, just like they open the wrong end of a banana. Cutting through the seam itself is nicer, but is kinda fiddly with a traditional can-opener.
@@fwiffo Yup. It's still got a sharp edge, but it's on the can's sides where it's far less likely to cause injury if you're just pouring the contents into another container. YMMV for folks who eat straight out of cans, I suppose.
So funny to be reading this after watching the video, especially in light of his conclusion about going through life oblivious to what simple improvements could make life easier.
I tested the method and it can be a bit rough on the lid edge and the lid cannot be put back so nicely, so I would still prefer the safety opener.
Thankyou!
It's one of the things you should be taught... Like using the TcTac lid as a dispenser or pouring the milk from the milk carton from the right side...
Ya know, maybe the ones I’ve bought are just crap but. I’ve never been able to get a common can opener to do that.
This fits oddly well with the side discussion:
“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies,” writes Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt.
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
I always loved that quote, and it is so accurate.
Come back, Douglas, I still need you! 😭
That must have been before people were raised to believe everything from before they were born is heresy of the highest regard and must be tossed out and replaced with its exact opposite no matter how extreme.
@@KairuHakubi Why do I have the feeling there's some undertones to this
@@KairuHakubi So, you are saying "every societal development past me being 35 is against the natural order of things"? Thanks for being such a ideal example!
The opening and the "assume a standard can in a frictionless vacuum" hit me just right and I was howling with laughter
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@MrPaxio sometimes a joke and it's delivery just get ya.
I thought it was a great physics teacher joke 😅
I happened to read this right as he said it 😂
Gotta love the random physics jokes!
I'm glad you said that about the canned foods snobbery, I deal with it so often as someone with a, shall we say, not as replete income. I can't afford to pay a twenty for fresh foods outside of harvest time and people treat me like I'm a worse person for it.
I ain't judging. The comment about the chef boyardee not coming out of the can was weird to me. Like, half the reason to get chef boyardee is it comes with it's own bowl. Crack it open and throw in a spoon. Good to go.
You think there's bias against canned food, try eating it straight outta the can in public, lol
I love these kind of can openers. Saw an automated one at goodwill for $3 right as i was gearing up to move to college. Tested it out at home. I was so blown away and excited by the fact that i just opened a can, lifted the top straight off, didnt even have a chance of slicing my finger open or getting sauce all over the lid or the can opener itself
You would not believe how disgusting the old can openers get after opening about 10 cans. Caked sauce flaking off, impossible to clean without hurting yourself, having to shove a tiny knife into your can with a lever so THAT gets messy too
But this amazing, stupid simple, marvel of human ingenuity does away with literally every flaw present in my own standard use case.
As an engineering student, it was a bit of a wonderful moment of discovery. I will be keeping this can opener for literally as long as i can still walk the earth.
Which might be my toxic midwesterninity showing, but i dont care.
I was looking at this and thinking "I'd love this but a motorized one beats both of the manual models" so hearing that their are, in fact, motorized versions is revolutionary
Git gud
@@destruktor5hundred296 I remember the first electric can opener mom got for Christmas. It had four legs and you had to push the bar down to get it to run. The gear manual type are much better than any electric any day. Then you can soak it in your dish water to clean it. Also you can even open number 10 cans with no problem. Then one other plus is during a hurricane you don't have to have electric to use it. 73
How many versions of can openers when the geared manual is all you need. Just like all the different mouse traps you can buy the victor does the job and you throw away the trap and mouse. Back to can openers I seen one with a knife sharpener and also sharpens scissors. Never had luck with that feature. Threw the messed up scissors away. I'm sure the safety can opener will come out with an electric. Most main kitchens have large manual can openers with a very large crank. When you are opening 25 number 10 cans you are glad you don't have that electric can opener like the one you have at home. Simple design goes a long way . How to make a better ______ just stay with the simple design. 73
To add to the can being invented before the can opener: The "can" was also invented before softer alloys used in cans today, meaning in many cases, you had to literally break out a hammer and a chisel to open your beans.
Nice
Truly a man's meal
So you spent at least 50% of the calories just opening the can 😅
@Natural Creature Yup, some of them have terrible handles that tear your skin off (or at least cause bruising and pain) due to terrible design.
For me, I would rather deal with a pull tab and have to fish the food out with a knife than use a cheap can opener and have to deal with bruising, pain and most importantly, me slamming the lot in the trash because f*ck that sh*t.
I blundered into getting one of these about a year ago, and I still giggle quietly when pulling the lid free. I’m positively stunned that the design is so old, and that it hasn’t made more headway. I may have to start a conspiracy theory about the nebulous and wicked Big Can Opener.
Good, someone has to fight the good fight against the utterly shameless and completely diabolical Big Can Opener
Your bit at about 17 mins in is actually spot on for people with executive dysfunction! It's common in folks with ADHD, anxiety, and depression, and other issues. Not quite where you were going with that but thinking that way has blown my mind and really helped me in my day-to-day life.
"X being this way is weirdly hard for me to keep up with even though everyone else does it. I will change X to Y so it's more convenient for ME"
I keep a small pantry box of dry, ready to eat foods in my closet, and next to my bed I keep my pills that require food to take. And I have two garbage cans in here even though the room isn't very big. It's the little things.
This comment made me tear up because of how on the nose it was.
As I recall, the old style can opener handle turned one direction and the new tech openers turned the opposite. I think it just took a bit too much effort to adapt for a mildly artistic person and a billion others.
Ohh I just ordered two new tech openers. Thanks for the video.
never thought i would resonate with a video about can openers let alone a comment on a video about can openers. much love from me, hope everyone is doing well that reads this!
Toxic Midwesterninity is a great term. I think you could also call it Toxic Depressioninity as people who grew up in the Great Depression tended to scrape by on whatever they had as well. My mom has a little bit of it.
I wanted to try making onion rings and my mom suggested I use her old deep fryer. It was a round fryer with 4 legs, about the size of a pressure cooker. It was also missing a leg(!) and incredibly old and dingy, pretty thoroughly crusted with gunk. My mom is a worrier and a bit of a safety nut, so I was very surprised she was suggesting I use something that had a fairly high chance of burning her house down. But that's toxic Midwesterninity for you, I guess. She had a working fryer, so why bother getting a new one?
Eh. Depression people have an excuse. Random middle class Midwestern men who have never been in any danger of not having enough money are just making life harder on themselves
9:35 having worked in a grocery store, i can say with absolute certainty that the taper is there for better stacking. The ravioli cans will slide off the rim of another can easily, while the taper makes it impossible without also knocking down the can beneath it. Those cans are a blessing when stocking shelves
I'm pretty sure British ones have regular shaped tops with the ringpull, and tapered bottoms.
You can still use a tin opener on the top ringpull side.
(Well, except Heinz that just refuses to make stackable tins.)
@@AndrooUK Heinz are unforgivable for that shit, the only time I have tins falling out of the cupboard, Heinz are always the culprit
But there are some cans that don’t stack well on top of others. I’ve had cans from differing brands that would stack together, but the can would stack fine on other cans of the same brand. I hate canned food in general. I usually opt for fresh; however, I do like a can of green beans occasionally
this is why the taper on the bottom is now common on many cans.
I had an older one of these with a squeeze grip
the anvil (cutting part) eventually wore out.
this is the 2.0 version of these
i hate nothing more than cans that won't stack
looking at you La Choy water chestnuts
When I was a teenager, the lawnmower my parents owned had a self propelling feature which didn't work. This made the lawnmower a heavy push mower. The need for a replacement wasn't very high for my parents despite my complaints. This one worked just fine. When I moved out, however, they promptly bought a riding mover.
For them it works just fine until they have to deal with it
Something tells me this isn't the only example for you
Looks like the lawnmower your parents owned was you, not the machine
When you moved out, they then had the money to buy the rider.
This angers me.
As someone who eats a lot of soup, I bought one of these can openers as soon as I saw this video. And wow, they are an absolute game changer. As you said, everything in the can slides right out! No fighting with sharp edges from the pull tab or a "regular" can opener. Thank you so much, you have saved me from endless (mild) inconvenience.
How is everyone even slightly struggling with regular can openers? You can buy reusable silicone lids for pennies if continued storage is your goal, and a child can learn to handle can edges so safely they avoid injury for the rest of their life. This thing failed to open a common soup can among others. I'm beginning to think the design was overlooked because the problems it solved were already solved, and meanwhile it introduced new problems
@@phildocs16223
1. The problem with regular can openers is that they leave a lip inside of the can, making it a pain to get all of the contents out of the can. With the can opener showcased in the video, there is no lip, as the lid is completely removed. This allows the contents of the can to slide out effortlessly, which is what I absolutely love about this can opener.
2. It failed to open one brand of coup cans, because of the dumb design that Campbell's did with their cans. Also, Campbell's cans open just fine if you flip the can upside down, and use the opener on the bottom of the can. The bottom is sealed just like a normal can, and works perfectly with the opener showcased in the video.
@SpeedNintendo Thanks for your reply. I bought a leading brand safety opener recommended all over these comments and tested it out of curiosity. It failed to part the seam on 3 different common can types. Meanwhile the standard opener I inherited from my great great ancestors for free has never failed. This takes priority over the rest of the pro/con analysis but there's more to mention
Assuming the safety opener did work, you could extract the full contents more easily, I'll give you that. However this comes at the expense of being able to strain, which is frequently necessary as many canned foods come in liquid meant to be discarded. Also realistically that lip is only retaining the
This can opener tip will make your life easier: just stick the blade side of the can opener on the outside of the can. Right underneath the seam. The line will cut straight and the lid will come off much easier without falling in. The edges are still a bit sharp, but that’s less of an issue when you don’t have to reach your fingers into the can.
Good luck friends. 👍
I was looking for a comment like this! I saw someone on instagram demonstrate this - just turn the "normal" can opener upside down and it cuts the seam like the "safety" can opener, and without the low-torque problem mentioned in the video.
It doesn't cut the seam, it cuts the can below the seam.
a 22 minute video about can openers? YES PLEASE
tbh this one is more like a 5 minutes video about can openers and 15 minutes of filler
LOLLLLLLL
I actually shared this video with several people specifically because of the "filler".
@@innercityprepper "But anyway, I digress" is one of my favorite lines from informational youtubers. Because you know it's going to be good.
He has a very specific audience. 😂
“My boy Ardee” got me.
This channel is exactly what youtube was made. No cheesy elongated intros, no repetitive pleadings for likes and subscribes, no overpriced generic merch. Humor, history, science and technology.
UA-cam was made for people to upload home videos. the things you described absolutely make this channel very enjoyable and pleasant to watch, but to make claims about what UA-cam is 'supposed to be' is nonsensical
I feel that as well. Also use a years old compact camera or an iPad for filming, and a very basic PC for editing.
I suggest you look at a channel called eating history. Its fairly interesting where he cooks meals from history while giving a small lesson about the time period it was found in.
@@xourbo8734 contrarian much
@@gorillaboardwalk4443 is it contrarian to correct people
I bought one of the 'edge opening' types of cans years ago completely by accident. Once I learned how to use it, I was never going to use a regular can opener again. I've had it now for 15 years, still clean, still works. And yes, I even use it to open pull-tab cans (cat food) and I love the fact that you can set the lid back on the can and stick it in the fridge - you don't need an air tight seal if it's only going to be in there for a day or so.
It DOES occasionally encounter a can it cannot properly delid. I still have a traditional can opener for that reason, but honestly, I have not had to break it out in months.
I love this can opener.. it took a while to get my mom to start using hers too, and at first she hated it, but now we both try to convince everyone to use them.
As a single smaller dude, I love being able to open a can and replace the lid and put it in the fridge if I don’t use it all.. I just put a rubber band around the can to hold the lid down and it’s more than fine for a few days for something like canned corn or whatever. Also, I have lung cancer and I’m a bit of a germaphobe and I always hated the lid falling into my cans, especially after seeing the Mythbusters episode about how dirty cans are! So I used to use iso to sanitize my cans before opening them, and now I don’t red to because nothing touches the food inside.
Also, the lids are much safer for a mischievous dog who likes to get into the trash and lick can lids that have tuna juice or soup on them… I’ve had my dog cut his nose and lip before on a can lid. So that’s a huge bonus for me too!
Oh, also, my mom has MS and these kind are way easier to turn than a standard..
There’s just so many pros to this style…
True story, I grew up with one of these in my house. When I moved out at the age of 22, I bought a "regular" can opener and I did not know how to use it. I ended up holding it "horizontally" and cutting the whole top of the can off.
It depends but some can openers can cut both ways but you really shouldn't since it can be a little too hard on the hinge point.
I actually prefer this way with the regular can openers instead of cutting into the lid, because its much easier to just grab the top off. I rarely use them anyway and when i do i don't mind the slightly harder squeeze and turning action as a trade-off
I was going to mention that regular can openers can do this too. When I was a kid we had one that looked like a conventional can opener, but only worked on the side of the can. My mom was obsessed with it because she was always irrationally afraid of the sharp part of the removed lid. The top of the decapitated can becomes the new sharp bit though, with this design.
Same
This is how I use my regular can opener. I can’t stand the risk of the top falling into the can and then needing to fish out a round, jagged razor blade from my tomato paste or artichoke hearts
It's funny! I had seen the safety opener a long while back used by somebody. I thought it was a very good product and looked for it and instead got the 2nd type of opener you mentioned which didn't work well at all. For a long time I thought what I had seen was a hallucination until you mentioned it here! I'm going to get it now that I know it is real!
When can I expect a collaboration between you two?
120v + can opener coming soon...
Hi @ElectoBOOM, didn't expect to see you here! Apparently people with similar interests watch similar videos.
Did you, like I did for a moment, think an electric can opener would be possible? Touching the can against two electrodes, with a frequency high enough to only penetrate and heat up the upper layer, and high enough current to melt it? Seems safe enough for me.
Since I'm a father of two without a yt channel, I would love to see a video of somebody (that is not me) experimenting on that!
You may be disappointed by it. I like the side cutter style, but I have also found enough cans that it won't work on because they have different shape seams that I have reverted to the regular style because it always works.
Not sure if Walmart is in Canada mister Mehdi, but a quick online search revealed several options regarding safety can openers.
I randomly got one of these for Christmas a few years back, and I love it. As someone with small hands and MS, it's nearly impossible for me to squeeze a normal can opener. These have given me so much more freedom in the kitchen. I have no idea why they're not more common.
I have one of each type of can opener, but both have squeeze-handles. I like the "new" type. It makes it so much easier to use a scraper (without damaging it) to get the contents out of cream of soup cans or even more important: sweetened condensed milk cans.
This brings back memories. Back in 1996, I worked for a short time with the person who invented this design. (or so they said as there was no Google back then). One of my first jobs was transferring the hand drawn design into Autocad.
At the time this Can Opener was a huge headache for this very small company. They were trying to release a redesign of the Can Opener, but Starfrit had copied it illegally. The Starfrit copy was a bad reverse engineered version that didn't work properly, giving this style a bad image. On top of that, the owner went to a lawyer for legal advice on sueing Starfrit on the patent infringement. The lawyer said that Starfrit legal department was so big, his company was sure to go bankrupt before they could win.
I left the company after a month but the owner was a brilliant engineer. I did notice about a year later, the design I copied into Autocad for them being sold in a store and so I bought two on the spot.
What is the name of the original company that made this design?
that's really cool
I discovered these “safety can openers” after my mom got a pretty gnarly cut on her finger from a jagged can edge, and gave these out for Christmas a few years ago. Now this is all we use. I didn’t realize that they’d been around for decades.
I was traveling a few months ago and needed a can opener for my hotel room. I discovered the SafeCut can opener at Walmart. Thought I would give it a try and I love it. I used to dread opening cans, but now with the SafeCut I actually look forward to opening cans.
"Assume a standard can in a frictionless vacuum" made me spit my tea out. Love it!
While watching this video, when you mentioned the question of "how many things in our life have been drastically improved, yet we dont adopt them as a society?" I was really hoping you would mention some other tools that are exactly that. I think making a video centered around that question would be something I for sure would love to watch. I'm sure im not the only one.
Video Idea: potato peelers. Someone figured out how to make a knife that only cuts as deep as the peel and there's so many different models and designs of them
You are right. TC could make an entire channel of this, call it Technology Disconnections, If you think of technology as an ever moving train, those items that don't evolve further have been disconnected from the train.
As a side note, my friend and I coined a phrase "Zenith Acquisition". It means acquiring the best of a technology before it evolves into another format. Like vinyl record players giving way to CD players, vacuum tubes to solid state, etc.Given that the 1.0 version of any new thing is usually terrible, the best of the last technology will serve you well for years to come.
it is genuinely depressing how often a new invention isn't able to be sold on tv for 19.99 so nobody gets to have it.
@@garyleewebb That must be why Zelda games keep coming out at the very end of a console's life..
Or you could do as he intended and think critically for yourself. You don't need someone else to do it for you.
I remember my mom buying a new can opener from the store like 20 years ago, it was one like this. No one knew it opened the can differently and we thought it was broken. So we put the can back in the pantry, not realizing it had actually been opened
how long did it take before you realized the can was open?
@@Kumquat_Lord a couple days I think
dang 🙁
Some say that can is still in the pantry to this very day, growing ever-more-lethal strains of botulism.
@@deusexaethera botulism only grows in the absence of air
It’s amazing how a video on a can opener turned into an indictment of the tyranny of tradition. I’m blown away.
Ready to have your mind REALLY blown? The Tupperware version of this is just FANTASTIC. These openers are good... but the Tupperware one is NEXT LEVEL. Note: no I don't buy or sell Tupperware... my wife does all that buying... but that can opener... I went out of my way to buy one when the last one died after 7 or 8 years.
as an older person I had a hard time with traditional can openers, so I tried the side (seam) cutting can opener. it is easer on my wrist and hands, cuts clean and with little effort. I find it to be very effective. This is coming from a mechanical designer with over 40 years experience. I highly recommend this for older people, or people with medical issues.
I got one for my parents a while back, expecting that. The issue we found was that it tended to leave the top of the can sharp, while the standard style only leaves sharp edges *inside* the can, and on the piece removed.
It might just be the one we had however.
@@DanStaal it’s the one you had. Mine doesn’t.
I'd recommend the Kitchen Mama (or similar) smooth-edge electric can opener.
Look for a "wall mounted hand crank can opener" they work great for people with arthritis AND still work when the power goes out.
The day after this video was published I bought this can opener and threw out my old one. This thing is so much easier to use, works far better than the traditional style, and leaves no sharp edges (though the sharpness seems to vary from can brand to brand).
I grew up with a safety can opener, except mine did actually have a lever, similar to the standard can opener. When I found out about the older type of can opener that left sharp edges, I just assume that it was an antiquated piece of technology that people only used because they haven't needed to replace their can opener yet. When I found out people actually default to buying to old type of can opener, I was genuinely surprised.
Did your can opener say Pampered Chef on it? Those are a Garbage piece of metal; they look like a standard but have the parts on each lever the top part on one and the bottom part on another and have to be set up right before use or they suck thus making an old design less effective. My mom still has hers but uses a standard as this particular version has a hard time with cutting the tops on some generic cans from a Statewide Chain of Grocery stores in South Dakota. There are several reasons why we stopped using the stupid piece of crap.
@@caseysmith544 actually it was Good Chef, made of plastic, but still worked 99% of the time. The 1% it didn't you could usually flip the can over and open the bottom instead
When you've grown up with that old style of can opener for so long it just becomes the default thing because you're so used to it. If someone handed it to me I instinctively know how to use it without instruction whereas the newer style never "looked easy" to use. If I didn't see this video I probably would've continued to think that.
@@gena1384 based Good Chef enjoyer. i still have one.
I still have the old type of can opener but I didn't default to it. It's just that until I saw this video I didn't know the other kind existed. I never even noticed the difference between the old styles that drag the blade across vs. the ones that use a wheel to cut. I've used both but never realized they were different. But since he showed me the nuances I definitely want to use his kind from now on. I've always been frustrated with can openers but I just thought that's the way things were and that opening cans was just a pain in the butt.
There's yet another can opener type that you never mentioned.
I was at an AirBnB that had one of safety can-openers you're talking about, and I couldn't figure it out. I ended up opening cans of beans and Spagetti-Os (they came with the AirBnB) with one of those double-sided can and bottle openers that we once used to make pour holes for tomato juice cans.
I just kept making more holes around the rim until I could pry the lid open and release my dinner.
Oh damn, those. Yeah I’ve opened a few cans that way back in the day, can’t really do that anymore and have the hand strength to cook afterwards. Or handle things period
You've made me want to go out and buy one of these now.
I am awful with regular can openers, and I constantly injure myself. It seems unlikely having to turn the crank more would take up more time than going over the same lid multiple times, giving up and getting a knife, cutting my finger open, rinsing it off and getting a plaster, etc...thank you for this video!
(I agree with your overall point, as well)
The tapered top of the "chunky soup can" allows nesting when they are stacked on the shelf. I learned this when trying to stock shelves of cans that were the same diameter on top and bottom.
Someone tell Heinz about this!
There are tapered designs where the taper is a lot less pronounced. So they stack, but also work with all can openers on both sides
@@EntropicTroponin Yeah basically all designs around here are stackable (again). After the "we put everything on paper trays and stack those" they weren't often stackable but they changed again. Both sides are almost identical, I guess the radius differs by the width of the rim
@@EntropicTroponin "... also work with all can openers on both sides". I did not know that. I love cans that stack and largely stay put.
Perhaps it's a Europe/America thing, but I've only ever seen cans with the taper on the bottom. I normally open the bottom of cans because it's easier to get the contents out if it's something like baked beans or a chunky soup, which means tapered and ring-pull cans go in the cupboard upside down.
9:00 When I got a "safety" can opener for the restaurant I work at, my main reason for doing so was that the cooks could get a spatula in the cans to get more product out of the cans without the burrs left by traditional can openers slicing up the spatulas. A can opened with a safety opener is far less likely to damage a rubber spatula and cause physical contamination concerns.
This video has changed my life more than any other UA-cam video. This is incredible. I will never go back to opening cans with a traditional can opener because I hurt myself on them all the time.
Congratulations! Even I could not come up with 20 minutes on this subject. That being said, I converted to the "safety" can opener 20 years ago and just had to replace it for this first time this year. I would never go back as it is great for pet food, if you don't want to serve the whole can at once. The lid is fine for the fridge between pet meals. No sharp edges and minimal contamination is a great thing to me. Thanks for letting everyone know to look out for one.
This is exactly why I love this channel. You never know what you’re going to get next. An in-depth takedown of dishwasher detergent packs? Yep. A continuation of a years-long hot take about Christmas lights? Sure, why not. A video about a weird can opener? You betcha.
Personally waiting for another box of junk on the other channel 😅
A series about the last 200-ish years of gas-fueled lighting? Sign me up.
not to forget an in depth rant why his toaster is better than ours
His dishwasher episode was a life saver for me.
@@DoctorNemmo Right?! I now use the correct amount of powder, and use the prewash cup. What a difference!
You know you're getting old when it's Saturday and watching a video about the evolution of can openers is actually one of the better options you have.
Why you gotta call me out like that
Watching this nine hours later than you did. But on *Sunday* morning. Is this even worse?
I felt that in my joints...
I bought one of these two years ago thanks to you, I haven’t thought about it since and you reminded me why. It’s genuinely so much better that I forgot about the old one.
I have a Krups electric can opener that works like this and I love it. Everyone's first time using it is always funny, but it's actually an extremely intuitive design
I can't believe I just watched a 21 minute video about can openers, and I was fascinated and engaged all the way through. I felt like a person on an informercial "no way, it opens without cutting??"
Well done
Same here.
I, too, was fully engaged.
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I even paused to give myself a moment to imagine a hands-free version of this
Just wait till you see the toaster videos.
I’ve got one of those several years ago, and when I initially got it, I was utterly confused as to how to operate it. I ended up just throwing it in junk drawer where it sat for like 2 years. About a year ago, I could not find my Swiss Army knife for can opening, and had to figure out this can opener, poked around for couple of minutes, and exactly as described: felt like I was not making any progress at all. And then the lid came off in the cleanest way possible, that was mind blowing experience.
Kinda weird you used a Swiss army knife this whole time.
@@RotGodKing Could be camping habits. I mean it doesn't get much more straightforward than that. Plus you can stick the opener tip under the lid to pry it up so that it doesn't just fall into the can
@@RotGodKing you don't? Get mr moneybags over here
@@thinnedpaints6503 A $3 can opener or a $40 knife?
You were your own Bean Dad 😂
I have an electric can opener of this design that has stumped and perplexed my understanding of it for months. I learned how to use it pretty quickly and the lid coming off as it does has made my life more convenient, but I never really understood it. Thank you for this video explaining it.
I have that exact can opener. Only got it a year ago and it blew my mind. Such fantastic engineering-never getting rid of that thing
I remember being Very Excited about those can openers when they first came out, and I was totally going to get one when the one we had eventually needed to be replaced. Three decades later when that workhorse finally went lame, I had completely forgotten the existence of the safety can opener.
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That's another point. Can openers are really not something frequently brought, if at all. I never needed to buy one. I am still using a ancient one from the 60`s previously owned by my grandma thats not even the clamp design but the one handled "rips the lid apart" ratchet one.
I love how you can re-use the can lid to close the can temporarily. Great for pet food when they get half a can per meal.
You also can get one of those ikea cup condoms to hold the top of the can on in the fridge.
@Black Toof I'm laughing - but also cats exist lol
Tiny dog?
@Black Toof Depends on the size of the dog. A large, active breed needs to eat more than a toy-sized lapdog, obviously. When my family had a corgi, the vet advised us quite firmly to feed him only two-thirds of a can per day. If you overfeed a corgi, they develop back problems and end up having rather short lives. Ours lived to age 14.
@Black Toof I eat 1/4 of a can of spam. I dont waste a whole can of spam. I open a can, cut slices i want/can eat, then put the remaining spam inside a lock n lock.
I got one of this type a few months ago.
It is my favorite type of opener ever since.
I love it.
I've found that one good thing about getting old is you can watch this episode and then when UA-cam recommends it a year later you can watch it again for the first time.
Same if you watch it high 😂
When I found your channel I was amazed at how you had the ability to make a 25 minute video about detergent in dishwashers interesting even for your target audience of curious people. I was pleasantly surprised at not 1, not 2 but 3 video essays about Christmas lights. So I don't know why my first reaction at seeing the title of this video was "has he gone too far, is a 20 minute video about can openers really needed?". I'm sorry I doubted you. This was great.
A target audience of curious people. We are out there, that’s for sure.
Completely agreed! And now I actually use my dishwasher because I know what it was missing to make it work correctly 💪🏻
#DeathToDishwasherPods
I discovered the chanel through a video explaining why brown isn't a colour.
@@Dr._Geno This was a great video!
Never too far.
An obscure drawback to the “improved” design that has actually impacted me: when I open a can of tuna fish, I can no longer use the cut-off lid to press against the fish to squeeze and drain the water/oil from it.
I'd get one tomorrow if not for this. I can't imagine how to wring out tuna without the lid.
I forgot about that! It's probably because I don't like tuna and never get it for myself. When I lived with my parents there were certain food like that or some canned veggies that you needed to drain and using a safety can opener really makes that a lot harder. But even though the SafetyCan has been my primary opener for actual decades now, I do have a "regular" one for those situations where my main one is problematic.
Don't cut all the way trough(just a bit) , crack the lid a bit with the not cut part pointing down. Drain it.
Yeah, we just have 2. Safety for all things, regular for squeezey stuff
@@Maxwellwhynot Tuna press. Granted, it's another item you have to keep in your kitchen, when the lid works fine. I just still use the lid, you can get it in the can slanted. Doesn't work quite as well but I don't make tuna enough to care.
I've been using one of these for about 30 years and it's great to fit the lid back on when I only need half a can of something. It also makes for a very smooth edge to the can so you can easily scrape out every last bit of whatever was in the can.
I remember when my grandmother bought one of these back in the early 00's. It's definitely good for the kids making a snack that might not be as careful with sharp edges.
But it also made recycling a lot easier, we would remove the labels from cans take the top and bottom off, wash all of it and then smush the now unsupported tube flat, which saved a great amount of space in our recycling bin having just a bunch of flat cans and flat lids
Had one of these "safety" models for years, and I have been so impressed that I bought another for my brother.
As a consequence, I now have two can openers, such was my brother's hostility to using this type. And we're English, nowhere near the midwest.
Some people can't be helped.
It seems your brother secretly has a masochistic tendencies... 😄
During the introduction I immediately thought, "_Safety_ can opener? People don't want to be called weak so of course it's not popular if that's what they're called."
Even without such terminology, innovations can develop a negative stigma because their early adopters will be those who need the innovation the most, which will tend to be those viewed as weak like the disabled and children, unless you (the seller) specifically push against that. Velcro shoes, for instance.
How are voice assistants advertised, for example? Probably not as a way to make computers easier to use but rather as a mere convenience. (Disclaimer: I don't watch ads and don't use voice assistants.) They're probably framed as friends or lean into the high status of having a personal butler or maid or something.
I think it's kind of amazing that a can opener can cause you to reassess your cultural/personal preferences. I also think it's commendable that you did so. And I enjoyed the somewhat philosophical nature of this video.
The mere fact that he gave it any thought whatsoever elevates him into the 1% of human intelligence.
I've been living off of mostly canned goods for the last year or so. Heeded your advice, and made sure to get a full-lid removing opener - it's made a world of difference! Thanks for the video. It's definitely been an appreciated convenience in my daily life.
If its the same one as he has, are you finding metal shavings like he described?
hopefully different ones don't cause that either
Those strings of metal are the biggest issue. As it’s used, it doesn’t clamp as hard, and it creates a lot more of those and other metal shavings which are very hard to avoid getting into the can. I’ve gone through two of these and it happened with both, so for the past few years I’ve gone back to a normal can opener that is still as good as when I got it a decade ago.
I actually grew up with this type of can opener in my home, so it's all I've ever known. I never knew I was in a tiny minority of people, or that the can opener I grew up using was in any way remarkable.
Same.
I was and still am not very practiced with the old fashion openers, my family always used side cut openers. However, I think they're more common in Europe. Ikeas kitchenware basics have side cut openers
I've had one of these can openers since the '90s - before I was married. Weird thing is my wife refuses to use it, and I've had to rescue it from several kitchen "spring cleanings".
This is all I've used for at least 20 years. I had no idea they were uncommon.
I thought I was going crazy at the beginning of the video, because thats basically the only type of can opener I ever used and it was so obvious to me how one would use it. I have seen old ones where you have to puncture the top side, but I don't think I have ever seen one for sale in a shop for years. They are all side cut versions.
Clearly parents at the cutting edge of technology.
Oddly enough, I grew up using the safer can opener at home. It was a relative shock when I started visiting friends and they had nothing similar. I've used just about every possible means of opening a can by now primitive or otherwise and the safety can opener is 10/10.
I had it too, but I never opened cans any where else so I never knew until this video that other types even existed
@@snow-js4te I respect that, I'm definitely just biased to the safety opener. It's always fascinating to think there's so many ways to do a simple task and none necessary or at all wrong.
@@aDistantLight I would suspect that they don't actually fall into the food as you open the can, but as you pour out its contents. So cleaning the seam before pouring might prevent that.
Also, I'd assume it's a function of age of the can opener. It's still a blade, after all, and every blade becomes dull through usage at some point. I'd suspect that those bits of metal are caused by dullness or insufficient quality (or both) of the blade.
Cut the crap out of myself while visiting family because I just instinctively grabbed the lid on a non-safety opener opened can.
My preferred method of opening cans is a thermite reaction. It's extremely safe, assuming you don't intend to use whatever was in the can.
Another great video. I had an electric version of this type of can opener in the 70s. It cut in precisely the same location on the side of the seam unlike a cheapie battery version I currently have which cuts the can side leaving a sharp edge. As I recall the good electric one was one of the classic American brands but when it finally died, the brand trademark had been sold off and applied to cheaply made junk. I suspect the patent referred to was mainly associated with the screw mechanism that pulls the can to the blade.
One of your finest episodes. Thank you.
9:35 "they have a very tapered top for some reason"
it's for stacking! i worked stocking grocery store shelves for a while, and that specific style of soup can was the absolute uncontested KINGS in terms of shelf-stackability.
i've also seen cans that are cast with a single piece, like an aluminum drink can. the worst offenders were the cheap single-pressed cans that literally have zero stacking interface. whoever made the executive decision to keep making cans that have the exact same top and bottom profile should be shackled in the town square to stack cans for days, so we can laugh at them when they all come crashing down on them!
Seriously, can we add to the list the companies that try to hide or camouflage the expiration/best by date.
I hated these and still do. Most of them are made soda can style and pressed out of a single 'side and bottom' piece. Which means that you can't cut the bottom out and crush it flat for not wasting a ton of space in the recycling bin.
Heinz (in the UK at least) make their cans like that - they don't stack. Presumably it's so that they get the extra in-store advertising from having to stay in the cardboard trays that they are shipped in.
Heinz was banned in my kitchen for that reason, then we discovered other brands are superior (and stack!) so that marketing trick backfired.
Yea, I worked a t a Safeway for the winter months a couple years ago, and we had to stack Campbell's chicken noodle soup 3 cans high and two cans deep along a 6' stretch of shelf.
If there was the slightest unlevel spot or bump, you got to spend another half hour stacking them again.
Why do *some* of Campbell's cans come with tapered tops, but *some don't*? The guy who made that decision is the one who needs to be shackled in the town square
@@williamreynolds6132 I don't pay too much attention to those, unless it's beans or the can is rusted/bulged
The big thing that jumps out to me here is that one of my main reasons for using a can opener is when opening a can of tuna, which for me always involves taking the now-detached lid and using it to squeeze/strain out the water the tuna was packed in. In that case, having the lid fit inside the can is actually really useful.
Being able to easily drain the liquid from a can while the lid holds in the solids is a huge advantage to the "old" method of "cutting a hole in the lid"
@@westonmikulich5246 Not when you need to put pressure on those solids to remove liquid from THEM - you don't just passively hold the 'hole in the lid' in place, you PRESS it down to force the oil/water out of the pieces of tuna meat.
That's my one problem with this can opener. I have the same one shown in the video and draining things is a little harder. Tuna specifically that needs a squash isn't possible. Just gotta squish it with my hand then replace the lid to drain it.
I've had one of these fancy can opener for a couple of years.
My one complaint is just that, draining the tuna is a pain!
@@toddoliver3385 It's not just tuna. The "liquid" that is packed with canned green beans, canned corn, etc is not edible and needs to be drained off just like liquid packing meats such as tuna, salmon, etc. Why the OP won't discuss this in his video, I'm not sure. Maybe why the existential arguments about technology for fear of this huge advantage with the old method?
Didn't even know there was another option! So when I decided to do something about the problem of my can opener rusting after rinsing, I just bought one with aluminum parts. Still love it though, since I mostly open tuna cans and like to squeeze the lid into the can to get most of the water out before I open it. Glad to know other people think about these weird little problems!
I was going to leave a comment myself about staining tuna, but I'll just agree with yours instead 👍
I got a new can opener as advised and I am very happy with it. Thx 🙏!
Personally I like the fact that the lid doesn’t dip into the soup and mix in the dried rat pee from the warehouse rats.
Nah it's missing that characteristic tang
The only thing I dislike is the glue that rips apart when you remove the lid. I have to remove it all before pouring the can to avoid glue in the food.
If you take an issue with that, just clean the cans?
big selling point for me as well
@@ShihammeDarc I do clean the can lids as well. ...But I'm not obsessive about it. Is a quick rinse good enough to eliminate all chance of rat lungworm disease? ...I'd rather have a slitter can opener than scrub every can rim...
I just need to say that I'm at awe at how good and tight your scripts are nowadays. Great choice of words and pace. One of my favourite UA-cam channels!
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Full time cook here, we use standard can openers for the 10 cans because of the extra effort this specialized one takes. But we have this one as well! We use it for the smaller cans for many of the reasons you stated in this video, they are very reliable the kitchen I work in has had the same one for nearly 20 years!
My mom got me one of those just about 20 years ago. I don’t use a can opener that often but it’s still going strong. Love it (as far as can openers go.)
Since growing up with a "safety opener" I honestly thought that the older knife style can opener were just a thing of the past shown in tv shows, movies and the like.
Had no idea people were "crazy enough" to still be using them, haha
They've always seemed so archaic to me
After we moved out, my brother and I fought over which of us would get the can opener my mom had been using our entire childhood. I won. Its like 25 years old and works so much better than any modern opener I've ever used. Cheap ones break, this one is an absolute BEAST. It's like example 2 in the video but better. Hefty. Rubber handles. I will never give it up!
Next time you're in the supermarket, check out the kitchen tools section and see what can openers are for sale...
...or maybe wait for the pandemic to taper down a bit before loitering in stores. It's been that kind of a decade.
The older style is still extremely good and useful.
I have never had any other model than a small single piece of metal with a blade and a hook, which you press with your thumb. It's about 3-4cm long and works for ages, nothing really that could break.
I have never seen anything else but the safety opener in the wild out the ones in the video :)=
We ended up with the safety opener in our kitchen utils drawer, and after having grown up with the first two kinds, I was quite taken with how easily it opened, how the lid didn’t fall in to the can, how it wasn’t sharp to hold, and generally how even totally pedestrian tools can be improved upon in small but substantial ways.
After I watched your videos about the sunbeam toaster, I showed them to my mom and she went online to find a similar model. She found it after a while, and it just came in the mail a few days ago. My entire household (about 7 people) stood in the kitchen and watched it work. It was absolutely mesmerizing to all of us.
I can remember when my Mother upgraded to a Whirlpool Automatic washing machine from the old Hoover twin tub, and we would stand around watching it do its thing and as young kids found if interesting.
@@steviebboy69 Funny you mentioned that! When my son was about 4 he was helping my Mum to load the front loading washing machine and actually sat down to watch it wash the clothes. The only washing machines that he had seen before were top loaders. I must admit that I found front loaders to be rather strange when I first saw them, and so was the old Hoover Twin Tub.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
I want this toaster so badly. However we are in a 240V country and could not find a suitable model and have up. May I ask where did you source yours ?
@@markfryer9880 I remember the spin bowl for the twin tub really revved up fast and dried even more than the large automatic machine. Im in wangaratta so not that far away.
You just can't say this and not share the model.
Everytime I open a can I thank you for teaching us about the Safety Can Opener. I LOVE it. Thank you
Just bought one as my first can opener going into college. They work really well.
Way back in the early '70s, our kitchen can opener was the same two handle gadget as described at the start of the video. However ours had a magnet attached to an arm that held the lid of the can so that top would not sink into the cans contents.
Yup, we had one of those as well. I much preferred the field ration opener. This little piece of bent stamp metal actually worked.
@@paavobergmann4920 you mean the p-38 or the larger p-51!
@@tonydibartolo7985 I have had a P-51 "John Wayne" on my keychain for about thirty years.
Wat a simple, but genius solution!
@@tonydibartolo7985 I looked those up, and yes, basically, but, actually, no, there was a non-folding variety in europe, I don´t even know if it was military, it was really just a stamped piece of sheet metal with a bent-up sharp hook, no hinge, so you wouldn´t actually want to put it in your pocket, but it was rugged, practical, sturdy, efficient and genius, and it got the job done.
I'd just like to once again show appreciation for the thought and care that goes into the captioning. The trademark symbol on Fine was a nice touch, absolutely top notch.
I'm glad someone else noticed, haha!
But what is a FINE product? I tried googling it but the word "fine" was being used as the cost of an infraction, a monetary fine. Please advise.
I started using the far superior and sanitary seam cutting can opener when I graduated college and got my first apartment in 1990. I hate (truly) the old fashioned kind! The manual ones do work better and last longer than the electric ones. I love and own both. Thank you for sharing this info!!!
Thank you for this info. I bought one after listening to you and I love it. I really like being able to use the top as a lid.
That ending speech works as a great thesis for the channel as a whole. Ever since that dishwasher video, I took the advice and it's made my life better. Thank you Technology Connections for helping us to think differently.
Yeah I started using my dishwasher and it changed my life.
I've never had a dishwasher however I believe similar is true for washing machines regarding tablets.
My mum uses washing powder and fabric conditioner. I've done the same, largely because it's cheaper. Little did I realise, that the cheaper way of the way I'm doing it, is the better way of doing so.
That, and in addition I see what he's getting at with regards to heat pumps. I've not heard of heat pumps until I bought a tumble dryer, however I did have a bad experience with robot vacuums a decade or so ago
A whole decade has passed and they've for a heck of a lot better.
The dishwasher episode convinced me to learn how to use mine properly. Never bothered before because they "didn't work". I very seldom hand wash dishes now and they are all clean because I actually know how to use the dang thing now.
I never considered using my side-cutting can opener on pull-tab soup cans. What an obvious, but totally overlooked solution to stuff staying in the can when it's supposed to be in the bowl. I will be trying that with my next can of soup or tuna fish. Thank you.
Analysis at 13:17 is spot on - They don't last very long. The grip on the edge it creates when starting the turn wears out. I went thru a couple of these over the same number of years and went to buy yet another, couldn't find one, and now been using the same traditional opener over 5 years now without replacement. I really like it though, it's a shame it doesn't last.
The one advantage of the old style can openers is that the lid falls into the can, which for the purpose of tuna allows you to squeeze the water out of the tuna when draining it. I use an old style one for tuna, and a newer one that cuts the side of the can for other things.
I was literally about to write this exact comment 😂 I'm totally getting one of these weird can openers now though.
Kitties like the tuna juice too.
I actually have both types. the old type is hard to find in shops, but still best for tuna cans.
My parents can open cuts the side (not sure if it cuts the seam or can wall), in i like that it doesn't fall in, i just pick the lid off, offset it slightly and then use ot to strain the juices out. I genuinely think its works much better for straining when the lid doesn't fall into the can and can be placed at an angle, i have the basic wheel and gear design now and its definitely sub par, and thats before considering the electrification of my parents opener.
Yes, this.
I’ve often looked at the different staplers in my office and wondered which spring assembly is the most efficient. I always thought it was neat one spring operates the feed and tensions the loading gate. I wonder what innovations in staplers exist.
There are staple-less staplers now. I have one and I love it. It's only good for a few sheets at a time, but it works.
@@SeJoHu yeah, those are useful for people who don't need to bind more than 10 pages at a time.
IIRC, the recommended thickness is just 5 pages.
For anyone who's curious how the staple-less staplers work, they punch a hole in the paper and fold it into itself to bind the sheets together.
If you hate holes in your paper, DO NOT use them.
Stick with a standard stapler and use good quality staples so you don't mangle the paper any more than you need to.
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@Technology Connections needs to do a video on this...
I've been tasked with repairing an office's supply of jammed and broken staplers, and I no longer question the necessity of an auto-stapling printer. Didn't staple? JAM HARDER THAT'LL WORK
I've had that side-cut/safe-cut/smooth-edge/whatever-you-call-it kind of can opener for years. Love it, and swear by it.
a) excellent and super interesting video as always
b) the genuine love and appreciation in my heart (and clearly yours at some level too) for the midwestern "it'll do" philosophy has universally been challenged by Tech Bros for reasons I allow myself to be judgy about, but this is legitimately such a great angle and one i'm swirling in my head like a glass of fine wine
c) best wishes to you and the three people who see this comment
I'm a home-brewer and sometimes use pre-mixed wort in stonking great cans.
These cans have killed more can openers than I care to admit, and for the last several years I've been using the the careful application of the back end of a claw hammer to get into them.
I now have a new can opener in the mail and a sense of optimism I haven't felt since before I started getting report cards.
To you
You've seriously never used a rim-cutting can opener before? They've been available since the 90s.
ARGH! You are PUNISHING yourself with that canned wort! I brew all-grain but I use the Brew In A Bag method, and "chill" with the Australian style "no-chill" method. I pull off a quart of wort first, ice bath chill it, and use it for my starter. The next day, I pour the wort in the fermenter and pitch my starter so at pitch time it is already going crazy and the yeast already "knows" the wort it is getting pitched to. It is way cheaper too. I can make a 10% imperial stout for about 60 cents a pint. Session ales for half that. But yeah I have seen those cans. They are beasts. Almost makes you want to buy a drum cutter.
Go all grain. Those cans are inferior and not nearly as satisfying! Get yourself a Guten, Brewzilla or a Grainfather or similar. You won't be sorry.
My father opens cans using the "traditional" double-cog opener, however does it backwards: the cut is along the outside (cutting through the label rather than the lid / holding the rotating handle facing up instead of sideways). This solves a couple of problems, the whole thing comes off so it's easy to get food out, and the lid can't fall in. However, it takes a bit more effort to cut, and still leaves sharp edges. It's a good compromise however!
this is the same way i generally open cans.
I was about to say the same thing! That is how I was taught and it seems way more intuitive than cutting a hole into the top of the can. Sure it is a little more work but it still isn't that difficult to do.
You need a good strong can opener to do it this way. I used to, but then I started breaking cheap can openers doing it. I swear they're getting less durable every year
@@ShukenFlash same mine keep dying and videos like this make me think I'm doing it wrong, but that's how I learned it. I not have a rotating knob one that doesn't rotate anymore, I just use it like a cutter and cut a series of holes into the can all the way around, that works too!
@@ShukenFlash I've been using one from the dollar tree for several years. Still going strong.
I love those new can openers. I've had one for years. It hasn't completely replaced my old-school can opener as I still use that for cans of tuna so I can push the lid down into the can after opening it to help squeeze out all the water and that's something you just can't do with the new ones.
I have both designs in my drawer, and I have to say that I use the older design quite a bit more often. The most frequent need for a can opener in my household is for canned tuna in water. The older top cutting design gives me the ability to use the lid to keep the tuna contents in the can, while draining the water and pressing some of the remining water out of the tuna before prepping for my tuna salad. In the situations where I don't need to use the lid for draining, (soups, tomato sauces, beans, etc...) I prefer the newer seam cutting model.
Yup, same here! Glad to know I'm not the only crazy tuna crusher.
@@JamesTM I do the tuna crushing (almost wringing) as well, only the tuna cans I get around here (Germany) usually don´t need a can opener. They usually have those weird tear of lids that seem to never work properly, but they leave to small a rim to use a regular can opener as it will tear up the lid at the precut for opening.
I do that too... it's how my parents always did it.
idk how else people are draining their tuna :P
Curious only, why use canned tuna when there is pouch tuna (that needs no draining? (I'm not wanting to start anything nefarious, curiosity only.)
@@JS-wc4xs At least here in the US, canned tuna is immensely cheaper and much more widely available. It's sold in practically every store.
Love the final point of this video. My mom was ADAMANT to never get a pressure cooker because one exploded in her house when she was a child (in the 60s). When I finally ignored her concerns and got myself a beautiful, sturdy modern pressure cooker, she ended up loving it so much I left it at her house when I moved out!
To be fair, having a bomb full of boiling water exploding in your kitchen as a child _would_ be a pretty traumatic event. If she had been standing in the wrong place, it could've actually killed her.
@@deusexaethera Knowing me, I'd buy one, just to blow it up for fun...
Just be aware it can happen again if there's an issue with the pressure relief valve or lid seal. It's important to regularly inspect them.
Sometimes when cooling the rubber bung gets sucked into whatever you are cooking and Mum would ask us to chew carefully. Later revisions of the bung have a valve in it preventing it being sucked in.
In another memorable day, we were all watching the wrestling on TV when there was this great roaring noise. All of the liquid in the pressure cooker had gone up the flue creating a mess. The meat and vegetables remained behind. The rubber bung was never found, probably still in the ceiling cavity. I was happy because I hated Mum’s vegetable soup and it was cancelled.
Someone is always less fortunate and our neighbour had the lid of her pressure cooker fly up and imbed in the ceiling, an event related in hushed tones years later.
@@darylcheshire1618 indeed pressure cookers are to be used by people that know how to maintain them ;-)
Wow, me doing a research on can openers because I am tired of purchasing every year one. Then, I found your video and I really enjoy it. Now I am deciding if I should purchase the safety can opener now. Thanks!🥰🥰🥰
I have one of those can openers. Absolutely love it!
This video taught me how to use and appreciate what I thought was a terrible can opener that's been sitting in a kitchen drawer for 6 years
They work good but I've had issues with their durability. I threw out the last one I had bought when the wheel would no longer pull back in to put pressure on the rim and so wouldn't turn the can let alone open it when you turn the crank.
9:37 This tapered top (or more often, bottom) allows for easier stacking of cans. Instead of both rims being the same circumference, the smaller rim fits into the wider rim, allowing them to be stacked on top of each other without slipping.
Heinz doesn't do that and it's annoying af. You can't stack their cans.
you can do that and still have a cylindrical can which can be opened with one of these
reminds me of a Mitchell and Webb sketch
So lots of cans in Brazil have tapered bottoms. Same benefit, zero downsides.
@@Y.M... and thats numberwang...