Velociworld

I've only had three can openers in my lifetime (all manual): my mother's plain steel cranker, my own SwingAway with brown coated handles and now the family's OXO Smooth Edge opener.

I consider myself a purist.

Yeh. What he said.

I always buy the 5.00 ones and when it gets dirty, I throw it away and go buy another one, Cat

Huh. And how do you know so much about electric can openers, eh? I think there's an electric can opener in your past. 'Fess up...

Hell, yes, Zonk. I think I was gifted with three at my wedding. Nasty fuckers. Counterspace whores.

Yep, it's all about the counterspace. If you own dogs or a restaurant, though, they are a must. They have one that somehow just lifts the whole lid off, without cutting. I want that one.

Huh. And I thought I was the only one who refused to buy an electric can opener on the grounds that it was Terminally Fucking Lazy.

Give me my Oxo hand-crank opener any day of the week.

Ain't nothin' wrong with a good old rock... 'cept for the splatter factor.

I grew up with an electric can opener. As an adult, I've never found one that actually works well. The Farberware handcranks are the best ones ever.

How else can you sharpen a knife? A handy feature indeed. It's almost worth the counter space. You need to get in touch with your inner slacker. Just Damn!

I can do you worse yet, I was once gifted an electric potato peeler. Never used it, I do have a little pride.

And your views on the electric toothbrush would be in the same arena?

Naw, a real purist uses a P-38 or a jackknife.

Damn Luddites. I want a robot.

You call those can openers? This is a CAN OPENER.

http://www.centralrestaurant.com/CanPRO-Commercial-Can-OpenerCorrectional-UnitScrew-Down-Base-with-PreDrilled-Posts-c91p6115.html

Damn shame I don't have room for one in my ship's galley.

Jim
Sloop New Dawn
Galveston, TX

ps, apologies for not HTML-ing the link. Not on my own PC,don't have my code ClifNotes handy.

Our hand-cranker is the one crudded up with DOG FOOD (ewwww - that's the most disgusting crap in the world - don't even wanna touch, see or SMELL it). That opener stays in the garage. Wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole! Only I'm allowed to use the electric, because I CLEAN it.

Used a P-38 until I was married, then graduated to a hand-crank type. I remember my mom had an electric, but always seemed to cut herself using it. Messy things, too. We still use the old crank type.

You suck. You belong in a damned crack house, curled up in a corner, sucking your sugar tit, waiting for The Man.

You make that sound so...immoral. I actually have my own name for such activities. I call it "Saturday."

And to think that I'm going to have to submit to a drug test soon.

Christ, you know it ain't easy.

Thank you. I agree wholeheartedly.

I hope Ted Kennedy asks John Roberts whether he uses an electric can opener or a manual. Oh Lord, I can hear the shrieks now ...

Dude, you got twenty comments on can openers. Fuck.

I have an electric can opener because I can't find enough beautiful women to feed me peeled grapes.

An electric can opener is about as stupid as an electric penis...oh, dammit...

I know how you feel. My mother worked for years at Rival, making swing-away type can openers. They were great! The manual ones you get now aren't even sharp. Years later, when I started working, I too went to Rival Mfg. But by then, everyone wanted a Crock-Pot. In the early seventies, I was the mail order department at Rival. Cookbooks, covers, you name it. I even helped type the recipes. Of course, that meant working with the home economist and tasting all the stuff she made. But I digress. Manual can openers rule!!

Had an electric as a kid, now use crank. About the only advantage of the electric is that it was a great way to summon the dog and the cat. They couldn't hear the crank. Otherwise, the manual is faster, more certain to actually open the can, less likely to slice your fingernail off, and takes up less space. As for knife sharpening - the manual works well there, too.

Smooth top openers rule! The hand cranks never work for me, except the wall mount kind. The only amusing thing I ever experienced with an electric can opener is with my friend's cat. If she didn't feed him as soon as she got home from work he'd jump up on the counter and hit the arm on the thing to make the noise, and meow. Demanding bastard. He also liked to sleep on the stove in the winter because the pilot light kept the stove top warm. She got up one morning and stumbled into the kitchen, not yet awake, and turned on the burner to start the tea kettle and didn't see the cat. Set his furry ass on fire. I figured it served him right for the stuff he pulled with the can opener. I was amused anyway. She always said I was a shit. Maybe I am, but I still think it's funny. And the smooth top openers rule. It's the weekend, hope everybody is having fun. Can openers, wow.