Why are we still opening cans with a can opener?

What else would we open them with?

Some now have them tabs on top, like your opening a can of soda.

I was opening a can last night with our very old but still working electric can opener and had the thought that I hope we still have a manual can opener somewhere in the jar for the day this one unexpectedly shits the bed.

I was opening cans last night with my hand can opener. I had to buy a new because my old got dull and rusty.

We used to have an electric can opener but a neighbor of ours cut her thumb on hers so badly she needed stitches and lost a LOT of blood and the thumb wasn't too good after that, so when ours started acting up, we never replaced it and just use a hand crank opener as well...you can keep the new technology, at least this way I know I'm not going to get cut.

Supernova wrote:

We used to have an electric can opener but a neighbor of ours cut her thumb on hers so badly she needed stitches and lost a LOT of blood and the thumb wasn't too good after that, so when ours started acting up, we never replaced it and just use a hand crank opener as well...you can keep the new technology, at least this way I know I'm not going to get cut.

Sorry for her injury but it sounds like she's a spastic. A manual opener takes two hands to operate. An electric opener, barely one. Accidents happen but that's still half the risk of cutting yourself. As cheraps said, some cans now have pop tops but the edge of the lid is still pretty sharp.

Our old one only required holding the can in place with one hand and pressing the lever down with the other, so I really can't figure out HOW she got it cut, but I wouldn't want to find out either. I cut my thumb a couple of times other ways and with all the blood lost then, I couldn't even imagine the damage the opener must've done to hers.

Honestly, I can't remember the last time I used a can opener. Most things today come in twist or pull tops.