They’re all using these dangerous weapons because I’m hoarding all the good can openers
The earliest version of this type of can opener was patented in 1926, and went into production around 1930 or 1931.
The Swing-A-Way model #407 has been in production since 1955 and has sold an estimated 100 million plus units.
The Bunker company was purchased by the Rival Company and was manufacturing can openers based on this design effectively since 1931 up to the present day (currently owned by Rubbermaid).
There have been a large number of improvements to the design but it remains in production to this day including under more or less the unchanged original patent. Many can openers even incorporate a small hook into their design which can be used as a bottle opener, or similar to the lever type can openers above.
Just so everyone on this thread knows, they also come in electric. Which can be very useful after you slice your hands open on that trench warfare shit.
after that cursed butter denier yesterday and now this, i’m starting to think half of tumblr users are visitors from some kind of Dickensian alternate reality where everything to do with food is crusty and depressing
Why does the box of that electric can opener demonstrate the opener being used on a can with a pull top
Reblogging again because I do actually have something to say to this. I own both, like one of those thingies OP has, and like an ANCIENT canopener. And like those things OP had just survive a year or two, then they don’t open cans anymore and are just frustrating BUT the ancient canopener? It works so perfectly fine and well. I think it is still from my great grandmother. And it just fucking SLAPS.
It might last longer but my wrists when I have to use it don’t. Those old openers are fucking hell on the hands. I can get a new can opener easier than I can get new joints.
Especially since you already have three of them
I love the migration in this post from ADHD purchasing to can opener discourse. You don’t get this shit on any other site.
So there’s a good reason to show the electric opener doing its thing on a pop-top can: pop-tops are great if you have the hand strength for them, which is not all that likely if you’re buying an electric can opener because leverage makes modern turn-the-handle wheel-type manual can openers about the minimum force necessary for opening a can. I have arthritic hands, and let me tell you, I notice that pulling off a pop-top can’s pop top takes more effort than turning the handle on my Swing-A-Way. So they took the product photo with a pop-top so that even if you don’t notice the text on the box saying that it works on them, you can be sure it will do that.
if a Tumblr post is reblogged enough times it eventually becomes about everything
All this talk of can openers and not one mention of a good old-fashioned wall-mounted can opener?
I’m just saying that if you had one of these screwed to your pantry door you wouldn’t have accidently bought three of them.
because you would have a permanent bruise on your arm where you keep walking into it.
It clearly folds away. You can see the hinge in the picture. Also, who the hell is walking around inside their pantry???
Me when I retrieve cans of chunky chilli beef. And if I remembered to fold things away I would also remember that I already own can openers.
In case no one has already shared this… a video about a new kind of can opener. It is by a video maker who is delightfully specific.
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