This is probably my best gadget buy ever. I was sceptical when I first saw it, but had broken off so many ring pulls using my fingers alone, usually with no other can opener to hand, that I decided to fling caution to the winds and go for it. At £1.99 it's been my best buy ever. The curve on the J has been designed at just the right angle to hook under the ringpull. It's important not to rotate the ring around on its rivets before inserting the tip of the opener. Once it's under the ring, pull back very gently on the handle and up it comes with a little hiss as the vacuum in the can fills with air. Unlike those annoying individual containers of ketchup you get at fast food outlets, you don't get the contents spitting out when the lid first opens, but I always turn the ringpull end of the can away from me just in case.
This is even better than a knife, Lynne. I've done the knife trick and there's always that moment of anxiety when the ringpull looks about to snap off.
Hey there sunshine of my day. What gives? When are we gonna party again? I need a Dr, fell over a toy on Thanksgiving day and I think I tore my meniscus, and maybe my acl...ya feel sorry for me yet?
I like the looks of that gadget, ive broke the rings on the lids lots of times then thought i was gonna cut my finger off trying to get it open , so that looks like a big help!
LOL...I see a heading like this and think "what is Giles up to now"...LOL. You're so cute sometimes....LOL. This looks great....but have never seen one here.
I've never seen one either. Interesting. I don't have the broken pull top problem. Must be my ratio of pull tops to zip off tabs is different from yours (I live out of the freezer,LOL)
Oh now that looks cool. I can't tell you how many nails I've broken trying to do that. I've tried using butter knives, but that only works for me half the time.
I don't buy that many products that come in a can . . . the occasional can of Dole pineapple or mandarin oranges. But then if I have trouble I just use by handy-dandy can opener.
I noticed that all sorts of things are having those pull tab thingies on top now, soup cans, cat food cans, etc. With this pop-top craze I think the can-opener industry is going to be suffering.
You're quite the gadget man, aren't you? I wonder if you could get something like that in the States somewhere? I could recommend it to many of my patients with arthritis!
I want one I want one,,,,,I have broken nails ,and as you said break the pull rings,,,,,many times too,,,,,,,I want one, I am going searching,,,,Neat gadget.......have a terrific tues. mel
