El... Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I need a recommendation for a quality safety can opener. I'm typing with fewer fingers than normal because I sliced my pointer knuckle and nicked a tendon on a stupid can. I got four stitches and a referral to a hand surgeon. The ER doc said cuts from cans are "common". I opened the can of pumpkin, left the lid sticking up, scraped out the pumpkin with a long rubber spatula, and caught my right forefinger on that razor blade of a lid. Darn it. Sigh. At least it wasn't a can of tuna - that would be worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milovany Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Pampered Chef has a great one. Says the mom who's taken a kid to to ER because of an opened can with lid still attached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El... Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Thank you, Milovany! I'll look for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I have a scar on my pinkie from an orange juice can from when I was a cook in a nursing home 25 years ago. Then again I have another scar from the saran wrap box. It fell and the cutting edge cut my finger.....................and a scar from where my dh cut me on the ankle with his sharp toe nail about 20 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halftime Hope Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 These are so good I sent mine home with my mom (it's now lives at my SIL's house with my mom), and I'm now on my second one. I think I paid about $12 for it at Walmart. The URL won't paste, sorry. Google "Good Cook Classic Safety Can Opener" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I had to drive myself to the after hours clinic to get stitches because of a can lid. We now have the Pampered Chef can opener. :) Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyandbob Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I have gorgeous upside down V-shaped scar from a can lid. I believe it was a crisco can about 32 years ago when I was in high school. Took a long time to stop bleeding. I also recommend pampered chef can openers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 When I was a kid, my brother used to love to hug the trash when he was a toddler. Like, we lived in the middle of nowhere, there was a closet that the old trash bags were in. He would break the safety thing and get in there and hug the trash bags and it drove my mother nuts. She was always pulling him off there. One day, he grabbed the bag and the lid of a dog food can sliced his thigh open several inches across. Blood everywhere. I'm still a bit grateful that I missed it. I was dropped off by the bus at the gas station/bait shop and the people who owned the place looked after me for several hours when my mother didn't come get me because, as it turned out, she was at the hospital getting him something like 20 stitches. Anyway, all this is just to say, this is why I got a can opener with this design when my boys were born. They don't seem to make the one I actually have anymore, but it looks very similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRG Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Another vote for Pampered Chef. I've had mine for over 15 years and I love it!I also have a scar on my arm from a lid cut that happened when I was about 6 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammi K Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Cheap Walmart one here. I wouldn't trade it for all the sutures and antiseptic ointment in the world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El... Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Thank you. I'll be getting one of the above mentioned can openers really soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I have this can opener. The cut edges are not sharp. http://www.amazon.com/West-Bend-77202-Electric-Opener/dp/B0002UMYDE/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top I bought it in December 2008, when it cost $33. It still works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msk Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I'm a big fan of the Kuhn Rikon "safety lid lifter." I think the America's Test Kitchen people liked it as well. I bought it when my oldest was born; she's almost 8 and it still works perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leav97 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 We have one like this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5of5 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 This is the one we use: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004OCMM/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 owie owie! I am sorry that happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest submarines Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: Oy. That's just awful. I hope you heal well. I've cut myself badly on lids before--meaning a deep cut and lots of bleeding, but your injury sounds horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El... Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Thank you! A friend sells Pampered Chef, so she has ordered a can opener for me. I'm planning to buy one for my mom and each sibling. The fact that one can cut a tendon on a can lid is shocking. I have to see a hand surgeon this week. Have I mentioned that I teach piano lessons and play for our church? Sigh. However, I did NOT get blood in the canned pumpkin, and so I finally made my almost-primal pumpkin custard. It was fantastic. So I think I will be fine soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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