MagiCan Manual Can Opener - Heavy Duty Kitchen Gadget, Effortlessly Open Cans, White, Stainless Steel

Been using one for 15 years. Finally wore out. This design even better.

I haven't had the best experience with tin openers over the years. I have tried both manual and electric ones and I have to say they have both been as bad as each other.Every manual one I have owned thus far seems to be so stiff that you need a pair of pliers just to turn the damn thing. They would rarely grip the side correctly and even when they do and you manage to get to the end of the rotation, the lid would land firmly in the contents along with any shards of metal that the blade decided to sheer off along the way.But of course, you don't have that problem with this one! It grips the tin perfectly and rotates with little torque. It catches the lid at the end so you don't have to fish it out later and it has the advantage of removing the 'lip' of the tin along with the lid so that you have a perfect open cylinder which makes it even easier to empty the contents. I cannot comment on the robustness yet as I have only had it a short period of time, but if it fails I will update my review accordingly. But, so far so good!

The idea is clever enough, but this can opener is nowhere near sturdy enough for basic domestic use. Although, initially, I think it may have worked better, overall the teeth do not grip the can well enough, and they slip, and slide across the part of the can that they are supposed to be cutting. I threw mine in the bin after having them just a few weeks, and I'd only used them about 10 times. Just a waste of money.

Completely useless junk. It does not even merit one star.I bought this to replace a 20 year old JL MagiCan opener which was starting to slip on the rims of cans, but has still never failed to open any can I've tried it on.The very first can I tried this Culinare model on was a Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pie. The opener gripped the rim well but the handle was painfully hard to turn for me (I have carpal tunnel syndrome). Despite that I was able to correctly operate the opener which completely failed to open the tin: all it did was to push the metal below the rim inwards. After trying all kinds of techniques with this opener for about 15 minutes with no success, I went outside and fished my old opener from the bottom of the recycling bin. Despite the now very chewed up rim which now also had loads of tiny sharp slivers of metal, the old opener managed the job within two minutes and started cutting the as soon as it was applied.I set the opener aside with the intention of returning it for a refund, but when I got home found my wife swearing at the damned thing. She found exactly the same problem when she tried the new opener on a very lightweight tin of mackerel fillets after the pull-tab on top of the can had snapped off. My wife was so angry with it that she ended up damaging it so the return option was no longer available.So with a 100% failure rate, it's the first CAN'T OPENER I've ever owned...This chunk of junk is a total waste of money and nowhere near as good as the JL version it is descended from.

I’m obviously in the minority, but for the life of me I cannot get on with this opener at all.It doesn’t help that my wrists are getting a bit arthritic, but I don’t think that’s the main reason I think this is useless. I had a wonderful Brabantia before, but bought one of these as it was cheaper. Yep, buy cheap, buy twice! I find it at times almost impossible to fit the tin between the bit that holds and the bit that cuts. That’s the main problem. I can easily be trying for 10 minutes or more. Then, very often I find that when I get to the end it hasn’t cut through part of the tin.For me, totally useless.When I buy a replacement this is going in the bin or the charity box.I was going to go back to Brabantia, but looking at reviews, seems as if they’ve changed and are not as good as before. Help!If you have trouble holding things, have arthritis etc I really wouldn’t recommend this opener for you.

After our old cheap tin opener gave up, I thought I'd invest in a good quality one.This sounded great, easy to use and very effective. But it was very much the exact opposite. The very first tin I tried, it wouldn't open, it would not grab the tin properly, and I ended up going round it bit by bit, basically cutting into the tin which took me ages as it wasn't even very good at doing that!Gave it the benefit of the doubt and still tried it on a different tin, but still no joy.Got a refund from Amazon and went out and bought another cheap one which does the job perfectly!