/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19294324
1. Don't be a cheap bastard
2. Spend a couple bucks on a decent product and it wont break in a few days

>>19294324
It's less than $2.

>>19294324
I bought an Oxo Good GripsTM circa 2001 and I dunno, man, stop using that shit for ammo

>>19294352
This guy (opens) cans.

>>19294324
>>19294324
https://a.co/d/05zEnKT

I've had this thing for almost 10 years and it's never failed.

>>19294324
third world countries still use these? wtf

>>19294352
>>19294560
YES, this is exactly what I use. Picked it up a few years ago.

>>19294324
stop using them to open ammo cans you fucking jackass they're not made for that

>>19294324

You're fucking up by using a rotary can opener, anon. Get a classic Japanese Gangy (aka Korin) can opener. Pic related. They're made of pure steel and therefore are sturdy as fuck plus they don't have any moving parts that will break.

They aren't exactly self-explanatory, so here's a video: https://youtu.be/EvxU4FM7zV0?t=54

They're only 14.95 CAD on Amazon and will last you until the day you die: https://www.amazon.ca/Japanese-Can-Opener-Ganji-Kankiri/dp/B001TV6A7G/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FUENFL1J1SHF&keywords=KORIN+Can+Opener%2C+6.5x11x3cm%2C+red&qid=1684617817&s=kitchen&sprefix=korin+can+opener%2C+6+5x11x3cm%2C+red%2Ckitchen%2C129&sr=1-3

>>19294324
>I even bought the premium brand because i am tired of it breaking.
You bought a premium old technology can opener?
My can openers don't even break the metal. They magically undo the metal seal and create an open can with no sharp edges on both the can and lid.

>>19294617
Literally just an overpriced version of >>19294334

buy a p51 it just werkz

>>19294626

Yeah but it's Japanese.

>>19294324
>zoomer can't figure out mechanical devices

>>19294654
The mechanial device in this case is genuinely retarded.

>>19294654

The kid in the video is certainly a retard, but these kind of can openers are over engineered. You don't need moving parts to open a can.

Speaking of can openers, they now make openers for beverage cans.

Who is this for? What is it for? Do people really hate opening tabs or drinking out of tab holes?

>>19294670
Youngfolk have conspiracy theories about rats crawling over cans at the factory/warehouse, so maybe this is for people who don't want to mash their mouth up to the surface of the lid.

>>19294674
Can't they just wash or wipe off the tops of the cans?

>>19294670
>oh boy oh boy a soda popperoo!
>I have been working very hard this sure will be satisfying
>raises open can to lips
>oh feel a sneeze coming on
>oh it's gonna be a bigun!
>achoo punches sharpened edge of vessel cleanly through brain
better than mustard gas, I guess

need to find ones made before the 1990s.

>>19294674
They could just refrain from drinking goypop.

>>19294677
I knew one who did this, whipe it with a paper towel, was how I found out about the belief. I used to make fun of him for just smearing the rat shit around to ensure he got at least some of it in his mouth.

>>19294324
Go buy pic related.
Its like 5 bucks, and works at least for the next 20 years

>>19294654
I hope someone rescued that poor child.

This what you want
Theyre made in the factory that used to make swing a way, swing a way moved production to asia and theyre junk now but they were used on apollo missions back in the day

>>19294773
They really hate you being self-sufficient don't they.
>he's teaching his child, call the authorities!

>>19294837
You are the carbon they want to reduce

I stole this from Jimmy John's and it's the best can opener I've ever had. Can open square or round tins and doesn't create jagged edges. Virtually indescribable.

>>19295244
Forgot pic

The "Super-Kim", from France apparently

>>19295247
Oh hey I remember those from when I was a kid, haven't seen them stateside
I should totally try to find one and keep my OXO Good GripsTM in my knife bag

>>19294324
OP I SWEAR TO FUCK I HAVE THE SAME EXACT CAN OPENER THAT STOPPED WORKING THIS WEEK ALSO. I GOTTA CLAMP THE THING 30 TIMES AROUND THE SIDE BC THE SPINNY DOESN’T MOVE IT

>>19294617
Fuck this thing. It’s basically the same thing I don with my broken spinny one

reminds me of that rough patch of life I had about ten years ago, didn't have anything but the clothes on my back. I was opening cans by stabbing and poking the top with a knife and somehow never poked myself.

>>19294670
apparently this drops metal shavings into your drink

>>19294654

>>19294670
>Who is this for? What is it for? Do people really hate opening tabs or drinking out of tab holes?
I am a schizo alcoholic who lives in a country that went health mad and introduced minimum unit pricing.
I don't mind regular ol' shit mass produced beer and it's cheap and about the same as everything else due to the turbogay law where none of the money goes towards helping alcoholics or communities or anything, just the retailers get to pocket the difference.

So, I add a little lemonade to my beer, I open the can, pour it out, into the mixer, then add in the lemonade to the empty can, swirl it around, into the glass it goes then drop the can in to drain into a funnel for the next one.
Not a drop, not a single drop of alcohol is escaping my lips good sir. Nope. Not today. Well, not until I spill my beer in a drunken state 18 hours in anyway.

Yes. It's okay to be a schizo about this because I do it out of spite.

>>19294670
Looks like bizarro eurocrap designed by idots to somehow save the environment.

Get a load of this anon, >>19295754, he's scared of a few metal shavings.

>>19294617
>Can opener
>Can opener, Japan

>>19294324
All that's needed is a p-38 and a p-51, these things will open just about any sized can.

>>19296814
Schizo here and obv european.
Aside from the schizo maximise the alcohol side, being an alcoholic's pretty brutal and being neet I don't go outside often so I used to do all my recycling or trash in bulk batches. Taking the lid off the can makes it easy to wash/rinse/dry 'em out and then when you crush 'em it's ez af too since there's only 1-2 steps instead of 3.

>to somehow save the environment.
Our country wants to force us to recycle by taxing drink containers and well, there's no reason to do any of that above stuff.
Why bother doing the respectable thing and rinsing out some shit, drying it on a rack, raising the humidity in your house/letting fresh air in when you're gonna be dumping that shit on mass so some automated always on machine needs to scan a barcode?
Waste of fucking time, literally making your life harder for no reason.

Fuck it, let the sugar dry, flies, wasps, fuck it. They've already built spacker can & bottle recycling shit at supermarkets for a scheme that's probably going to get cancelled so why put the effort in lmao? Why recycle kerbside when you could waste fuel, use transport to travel and get your deposit back?
Machines have been powered on for several months now, several tonnes of carbon dumped to assemble it.

The true environmentalist way to save the environment is to actually fuck it up even harder and me? I support wasps stinging lunch kids in the summer. Good shit that is.
Environmental politicians and environmentalists prefer to fuck over the environment harder where they can tho, so I can see why you'd associate a plastic landfill trash unsharpenable blade as euroenvironmentalist mass produced feelgood trash.

>>19296839
Some wasp or hornet came through a window a couple months ago so I smacked the shit out of it, right out of the air and onto a table then I mashed it. It tried staring at me so instinctually I smacked it then finished it off. It seemed like a scout and I didn't want it bringing in any of it's buddies.

>>19296806
I remember finding that video years ago and she only looked cute in that one frame :(

I use pic related. I believe that's the standard in my country, although I have seen ones like the one OP posted. I guess if you work in a restaurant and have to open 50 cans of tomatoes it's nice to have something mechanical but otherwise it just looks like something designed to break.

https://youtu.be/TGwW5oH8dz4

>>19296956
> "she"

>>19296956
For some reason "she" remindes me of Zira from that old movie Planet of the Apes.

>>19295247
this is what i use, works great
you can get them at lee valley

>>19296961
>>19296994
It's Veruca James. It's a female.

>>19296956
>I guess if you work in a restaurant and have to open 50 cans of tomatoes it's nice to have something mechanical but otherwise it just looks like something designed to break.
I've been thinking about getting a proper can opener since I'm disabled 'cause can openers and potato peelers are shitty landfill stuff imo.
They fill a purpose, they're fast enough but eventually the blades dull and they're useless.

With a real knife you can sharpen it, no problem, potato peeler, enjoy pussy rubbing & hard edging some sandpaper over the blades you weirdo.
Can openers last a bit longer but yeah, the'yre just as shit, also go dull and the idea of running 'em through tinfoil like cutting scissors through it's a temporary solution at best.
At least a solid can/bottle opener is mostly biomechanical relying on pressure.

Makes me wonder tho. There's a bunch of automated shit like spud peelers, can openers for disabled people but they're all as fragile and single point of failure as the commercial shit.
Surely someone makes a good solid, automated blade plunger....right?

>>19297232
Clearly you need a Rambo knife to take care if those upstarts.

>>19294617
I got one of these some years ago, it's the best can opener I ever used.

>>19294654
this is more of an indictment on the clueless gen X parents that raised him. they never put him in a position where he had to learn basic skills such as opening a can

>>19294560
This design is genius. I have the amazon basics one (pic related) which is a bit less expensive. Looks like a cheap plastic piece of shit, turns out to be the best can opener I've ever owned. Cuts easier than the kind the OP has, leaves a smooth edge, and the lid can be replaced for storage. I haven't used the OXO brand one but it looks like the same kind of design but with even more features, it's probably even more kickass for slightly more money.

The "best" can opener I've ever used was one that I bought at Dollar Tree. Used that thing for years. The moving metal parts were a non-issue. Of course, it's a dollar store item, so it had flaws. The plastic handles weren't very good, and they were the first things to break.

When it worked, it worked way better than any other can opener that I've owned before, and I bought those at more reputable retailers. Smoothest cutting action ever. I almost contemplated making custom wooden handles, but that's like putting lipstick on a pig.

>>19295642

Yeah but your spinny one broke. I can't break mine unless I run over it with a freight train because it's just a solid chunk of steel.

>>19296839

You rinse your recyclables? Lmao. I just chuck that shit in the bin. If it's too dirty, that's not my problem.

>>19298604
>Cuts easier than the kind the OP has, leaves a smooth edge,
That's because it doesn't cut. It bends the metal at the seam to undo the crimping process that sealed the cans in the first place.

>>19298693
You're literally asking a self-admitted schizo why he does the things he does.

>>19294617
That looks like such a slow pain in the ass. The guy in the video didn't even show the full process, he could only get the can 1/6 open before deciding it was taking too long for the video.