What type of tin/can opener have you got?

[Pip]

Get the Y peeler, I haven't tried the swivel one. Less than a fiver. Peeling a squash is a veritable JOY!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

With mine (slightly better than bog standards Ikea one) I take it off at the kink, then put it back on and go round, so the bent bit is like a little hinge. Do you do that?

I normally end up with two parts of the can that won't open opposite each other

I'm a bit peeved. I paid £10 from M&S for this one that just seems to have gone totally blunt. I expected better off M&S

I have one of those posted by IC3D that's useless, and I have another one that just isn't capable of going round bent edges.

So I have three completely different types of can openers that all work, but not effectively, hence the "most boring thread ever" looking for recommendations.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yes - we've got this one and it's brilliant.

Before we got this we went through a stage of having bought numerous tin-openers, none of which performed the function of opening a tin properly. For a time we gave up buying any tinned food at all.

But since we got the goodgrips opener, our lives have been transformed. Yes, transformed!

I bet El Jefe's thrilled for you

I've been looking at the other Oxo stuff and am getting a bit tempted

except there's no peeler and I don't need a pizza cutter or those white things at the end (measuring cups maybe).

 

[Biddlybee]

Peeler is third from left.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Get the Y peeler, I haven't tried the swivel one. Less than a fiver. Peeling a squash is a veritable JOY!

What's a Y peeler?

ah, never knew they were called that

 

[Pip]

I bet El Jefe's thrilled for you

I've been looking at the other Oxo stuff and am getting a bit tempted

except there's no peeler and I don't need a pizza cutter or those white things at the end (measuring cups maybe).

Yeah I had a look at that, but I reckon you're better off just buying a Y peeler and tin opener separately. Their masher looks good too.

 

[Pip]

Y peeler:

Swivel peeler:

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Peeler is third from left.

Strange angle to show it, rather than like this

 

[Pip]

Nah, they're showing the swivel peeler.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Y peeler:

Swivel peeler:

I think we have a Y-Peeler hidden in the drawer somewhere. I don't think it works. In fact I think it's rusty. Obviously shite.

How do you use the other one?

 

[Pip]

What? A Good Grips one?!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Nah, they're showing the swivel peeler.

Right, well the set's no good then if they've only got a swivel peeler (and I don't even know what it is).

So I've gone from wanting a can opener to a can opener and a spud peeler.

 

[gentlegreen]

This sort of thing - Brabantia / Ikea / supermarket.

They don't seem to last a fantastically long time but then perhaps I eat out of cans far too much.

I might speculate on an electric one, but I refuse to use an opener that leaves a razor sharp can edge - I find sharp can lids much easier to deal with.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

What? A Good Grips one?!

Obviously not. I'm assuming a Good Grips one wouldn't rust?

It looks like a cheap plastic one from what I can remember

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

What? A Good Grips one?!

You're confusing me. What are you talking about?

I don't have ANY Oxo products. Or are you talking to someone else?

 

[Pip]

I think it's probably stainless steel, so no. Mine hasn't, anyway.

And soz, I was talking to you. I thought you were going to burst my OXO bubble

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This sort of thing - Brabantia / Ikea / supermarket.

They don't seem to last a fantastically long time but then perhaps I eat out of cans far too much.

I might speculate on an electric one, but I refuse to use an opener that leaves a razor sharp can edge - I find sharp can lids much easier to deal with.

Yep, I've got one of them in that style as well - but green. Worked well, and now it's a heap of shite

 

[Beanburger]

Kitchen porn. Shocking.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I think it's probably stainless steel, so no. Mine hasn't, anyway.

And soz, I was talking to you. I thought you were going to burst my OXO bubble

Not at all, that would be liking bursting someone's Miele bubble.

Right, I'm going to order one of these two after my lunch

and a spud peeler

Thanks for the help people and to you Pip for making me spend more money

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Kitchen porn. Shocking.

cover your eyes

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I still don't know what a swivel peeler is but having googled, it looks like another form of what I generally term as a spud peeler but with a movable blade maybe

 

[Beanburger]

cover your eyes

Didn't say I wasn't enjoying it

This deceptively simple bottle opener from Le Creuset is the pride of my kitchen. Lifts corks out with zero effort. Low tech, but effective. A utilitarian design classic.

 

[Biddlybee]

How do you use the other one?

The other one is a normal peeler afaik... hold it in your hand more like a knife. Y peelers are a bit newer.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Didn't say I wasn't enjoying it

This deceptively simple bottle opener from Le Creuset is the pride of my kitchen. Lifts corks out with zero effort. Low tech, but effective. A utilitarian design classic.

and probably weighs a tonne. My friend uses Le Creuset pans and I can barely lift them

 

[Beanburger]

and probably weighs a tonne. My friend uses Le Creuset pans and I can barely lift them

Nah. Nothing like the pans. Light as a feather.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The other one is a normal peeler afaik... hold it in your hand more like a knife. Y peelers are a bit newer.

I think I'll go for the Y Peeler. I've never got on with those other ones. I tend to just use a vegetable knife to peel instead.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Nah. Nothing like the pans. Light as a feather.

I'd like a nice corkscrew but I don't have alcohol in the house

 

[Beanburger]

I'd like a nice corkscrew but I don't have alcohol in the house

What better reason to start drinking like an old sot than an elegant kitchen utensil?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Didn't say I wasn't enjoying it

In fact, we could rename this the "Small Kitchen Utensil Porn Thread?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

What better reason to start drinking like an old sot than an elegant kitchen utensil?

No. I refuse.

I'd quite like one of those pizza cutters as well except I never eat pizza