Kuhn Rikon Safety Lid Lifter Can Opener
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Kuhn Rikon Safety Lid Lifter Can Opener
Customer Review: The best can opener I've ever used!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've enjoyed my similar Oxo "side seam opening type" can opener, that also leaves no sharp edges, for a year or so, and the only thing I didn't like was the way it couldn't open rectangular cans. This was because it's side-mounted handle would hit the can, and stop the entire opening process till it was restarted an inch or so away from the corner. A pain with rectangular cans.
I saw this Kuhn Rikon safety one, and it had it's handle on the top, not the side...Bought it, tried it on several cans, and it's the easiest one to open cans!
It opens along the seam, rather than actually cutting, and at first, after "going round" the top of a can, it doesn't look any different. Then, grip the top edge of the can with the side "pliers" on the can opener, and the entire top lid comes off! If you are so inclined, you can easily put the top back on, and it stays!
This is easy on the hands, light weight, and seems to open easily any can I offer to it! It's not the best for left handed people, if they can twist the handle with their right hand, and hold the opener with their left, then it's no problem.
Very safe for kids, as it doesn't leave sharp or ragged edges as with the can openers that have been around for over 30 years.
I'm giving my Oxo opener to Salvation Army!
Customer Review: Takes some getting used to, but you'll never go back...
Summary: 5 Stars
These trendy "safety" can openers... Er, "lid lifters," take a bit of getting used to when you have a lifetime of experience with regular manual can openers. Seriously, it took a good two months or so of regular can opening before I actually got the hang of this outstanding little gadget. But once you develop new habits with this new tool, you'll never go back to a conventional opener. Most lids come right off with ease, but the small lid gripper feature can always be used to bring a little extra force into play for those stubborn lids that want to stick.
The safety aspects may (or may not) be over-rated, but that's certainly one plus. (Personally, I never found cuts and scrapes to be an issue with conventional openers.)
As others have pointed out, perhaps the best "feature" of this device is its ability to handle very large food service cans and tiny little tomato paste cans with equal aplomb. And in all cases, there's never an issue of lids falling into the canned product (which always happened with regular can openers, especially when I failed to wipe the dust off the top!).
In any event, no kitchen is complete without a decent can opener, and the Kuhn Rikon is a particularly nice (and inexpensive) one.
Customer Review: Highly recommended and worth the price if you need it every day.
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using this to open pet food cans twice daily for the past two months and have found it to be the best of several safety openers I've owned.
Pros:
- Works every time. No other side opener I've had did that.
- The lid lift feature is handy.
- Seems solid and well constructed.
- Side opening allows easy removal of the can's contents, a solid cylinder of processed meat in the case of ground dog food.
- Side opening allows the use of the lid for storage of partial can contents in the refrigerator.
- The large turning knob is easier to use than other brands.
- The large double handles make it easy to apply pressure to open the lid cleanly every time.
- This is a good looking gadget, elegant to my eyes.
Cons:
- The drive wheel and cutting wheel need to be carefully aligned so that the opener's head is flat relative to the lid, or else it doesn't grab and cut. There's a learning curve to doing this consistently right.
My previous side openers had a very short life span, even as short as a month. In two months of use, this opener is still tight with no slop at all. I think it will last a long long time.
Customer Review: Great gadget
Summary: 4 Stars
After seeing a guy on late-night TV open can after can with one of these things, I just had to try one for myself. First, it's not that much harder to turn than a standard opener. While I don't have arthritis, or anything like that, I've noticed no increased effort with this thing. And, as advertised, it leaves no sharp edges, and you can put the lid back on the can for storage, which is kind of cool. Furthermore, tne cutting wheels and gears never touch the contents of the can, so it stays completely clean.I couldn't bring myself to give it five stars because: You can't squish the water or oil out of a tuna can with the lid, since the lid won't push down into the can. And even though I've had mine awhile now, I still find it difficult to get the opener positioned properly. Finally, it appears some lids are originally put on with some type cement, which seems to be a bit like rubber cement, and cutting the can from the side exposes this stuff.
Otherwise, I like the opener a lot and feel the "switch" was well worth it.
Customer Review: Safest best can opener I've ever used
Summary: 5 Stars
If you have young children or you are accident-prone, then this can opener is the one to buy. First, it's not like the can openers you are used to and it took a little getting used to. This is a can opener about finesse, not muscle. Some folks have said they got metal in the food from its use, I can only image that happened from mishandling the opener. We've *never* had that happen - the food perfectly safe for my 2 year old daughter to eat. The cut can does not have any sharp edges (not that I let my daughter play with cans) but if she got ahold of one, there would be little problem. You don't have to wash off the lid of the can before opening it because the lid doen't fall into the food! It's a time saver too.The things to know are:
0) Get the opener on the lid correctly (parallel to the lid)
1) Stop when you feel when the opener has completed 1 revolution of the can
2) Use the little grabbers built into the can opener to pull off the top.
It's that simple. I will never go back to the outdated can openers.