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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on January 29, 2023This can opener is the best in the world, bar none. I've been using one for the past 25 years and it is still going strong. To use, you just make sure the cutting wheel is on the outside of the can's lip, and the serrated driving wheel is on the inside and start turning the butterfly knob clockwise. After about 13 to 14 half-turns, a 19oz can should be open. Less turns are needed for a 14 or 10oz can. You should feel a certain slackness suddenly happen to the turning knob. That's an indication the cutting wheel has come into the groove it had started cutting in the can top a full turn ago, and the cutting of the can top is done and the can should be fully open. Just apply a slight back-turn on the knob to release the cutting wheel and use the pincers on the side of the opener (a 90 degree turn to the right does it) to grab the can top, press down on the black button on the now top of the opener (originally the left side of the device) and lift the top a little then twist lightly to right and left to get the gum to let go of the can top. It should come off very easily. Since the cut happens directly on the lip where the can top overlaps the wall of the can, there are no sharp edges to cut you because the bottom part of the outer edge of the lid is still attached to the outside wall all around the can. Hence the name Securimax of this opener.
This opener can open any can of any size or shape, aluminium or steel. I have opened rectangular sardine and fish fillet cans as well as the bigger oval cans holding big sardines. Even cans with hooks in them so you can open them without a can opener, but which leave you with a dangerously sharp can top and inside edge on the top where you can very easily cut yourself, as when you are washing the can prior to putting it in the recycling bin.
I'm surprised Starfrit is not keeping this item in constant production, because there is no way of getting this opener on the retail market. I tried a few months ago to obtain one from a known previoius retailer of this item (they still sell other Starfrit products of a similar nature) only to be told by the person in charge of ordering that even the company from which they obtained their stock didn't have any in stock and didn't know if they would ever get some any more.
I bought these two to make sure I would have a replacement if ever my present opener's cutting wheel couldn't cut anymore, as there is no way to change a used part on this.
The only way Starfrit could improve on this opener would be to make an electric model. I would prefer a plugged-in model for the torque needed to open a can. Also they could develop a model for restaurants with a long handle so they could open bigger, 48 and 64oz cans, even gallon-sized cans, at that.
