Hamilton Beach Smooth Touch Can Opener vs Made in USA Can Opener

LOVE the smooth edge on the lid when removed. One star was not given due to the need to hold the lever during the cutting process (unless there's an auto function I don't know about - I have not read the instructions/directions for use.) I've used it more than a dozen times and really like the way it looks and operates.

If this is true, then I'm truly bummed, since I really don't want a enormous electric can opener taking up valuable space when I don't even use canned goods that often. I wish that someone would take this good construction idea, and just redesign it a tiny bit so that the blade dives deeper into the can, rather than practically skimming the surface, allowing the can metal to bend and avoid the blade altogether. Or maybe that wouldn't work either. Maybe the can metal is just too soft these days

We love the product and the safety of edge-cut can lids. The only issue is that these machines wear out. Three fix postings online were unhelpful. This is our 3rd purchase of this model

I wonder why other companies bother making flimsy versions, this one cleans their clock.

When I first got this can opener in 2009, it worked really well. About a year ago, it started cutting poorly, and I tore it apart and cleaned metal shavings out of it. It worked okay for awhile after that.But then, it went downhill fast

well, caveat emptor. Maybe someday I'll figure out which it is: authentically cheap or a knock-off If you're looking for a can opener for under $10 that works and works well, then this will suit your needs. If you're looking for an item that you could basically pass on to your kids when they move out the of the house someday, well

There is nothing like not having good vision yet loving to cook. Over the past 2 years, we have had 3 electric can openers that didn't work as the cook couldn't see where the cutting wheel was and could never get the can to "catch' long enough to open. We tried the manual openers; the one that cuts around the outside of the can - same issue; could never get it on the can so that went into the drawer. Finally, a wall mounted restaurant type opener

She used it once, and said that it opened smoothly, so that was at least a relief. But then it gets worse. After that one use, she rinsed, patted it down with a dishcloth, and set it to air dry on a rack (i let her know that it should not be soaked or left wet for too long) and two days later when i was about to use it, i realize it had two big rust spots where one side of the opener meets the other. She had only used it that one time, and took proper care of it, i was dumbfounded

I was not disappointed. The Hamilton Beach is a solidly built, heavy, well-constructed opener. It works as advertised. It is a function opener and attractive

I don't know about you folks, but I love me some good solid metal, chromed, and stamped 'Merica made products. This thing is a quality piece of respectfully simple engineering, There's nothing more to want out of this device. The handle feels great. The weight is nice and satisfying, I said it

01 for each of the others and this one would total $40.59. (They were all free Prime shipping.) Inflation, or no inflation, they priced themselves out of a sale

Anyway, I always told them about a can opener that my dad bought back in the 60s or 70s and how that can opener lasted at least 25 years! And it was not treated with kid gloves: It was seriously abused by three growing kids who ate a lot of canned food. Lo and behold, an Amazon search a few weeks ago brings me to a totally reasonably priced can opener that is a mirror image to the one my dear old dad bought decades ago (except the color of the handle on dad's was red, while mine is black). I thank you, makers of these can openers: You've given me some hope that not all our essential kitchen tool manufacturing has moved abroad and that I don't have to spend 30 dollars a year on can openers; instead, I pay ten bucks and get one that--if I take care of it--will last just as long as my dear old dad's 30 or so year-old can opener. Thank you for "Made in USA Can Opener"! Now I can SHOW my friends the can opener instead of describing it as if it were a relic of the past, and advise them to buy it and never buy the Chinese manufactured garbage sold in all the big box stores