Opening cans of food with an intuitive and durable can opener provides a certain convenience that today’s home cooks have come to expect while cooking dinner or conducting meal prep for the week. You ...

Our top pick, the Hamilton Beach Smooth Touch Electric Can Opener, will easily open any sized can, leaves a smooth edge, and is faster than the competition. Better Homes & Gardens / David Hattan ...

When testing can openers for this piece, I found this kitchen essential to be an unexpected source of frustration. It’s easy to see why. You don’t want to go to a lot of effort to puncture or cut a ...

Think for a second about the last time you actually opened a can with a can opener versus popping open a pull-tab. From soups to sodas, pull-tabs are on everything these days, and for good reason — ...

Can openers might not be the flashiest of kitchen tools, but they’re arguably among the most useful. If you’re making a weeknight chili with canned black beans and diced tomatoes, or you have a ...

If Angus MacGyver can disarm a nuclear bomb with a paper clip, there's no doubt he could open a can without a can opener. But as much as you might want a heroic, mullet-haired genius to drop from the ...

Can openers are a staple in modern kitchens — but not until relatively recently. According to food writer Jackie Alpers, “the can opener was invented almost 50 years after the can, and before that ...

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