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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / May 2008OTP new types of can and jar openers - need feedback
I was wondering if I could get some feedback on those new "drop on top and it opens the can" can and jar openers. My Mom has trouble with the electric one we have (it does require a bit of finesse to open a can). Of course, with all the cans coming out with the pull ring type, the other type of opener may become obsolete. Anyhow, my hands are starting to go and we were looking at those new types of openers. Thanks, folks  SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. I have one and it had worked fine until this week when I tried to use it; it wouldn't work even though I put in new batteries. Had given my DIL one and she had not used it so I got it back. It also wouldn't work to start with. Finally got both of them to work! Gwen I was wondering if I could get some feedback on those new "drop on top and it opens the can" can and jar openers. My Mom has trouble with the electric one we have (it does require a bit of finesse to open a can). Of course, with all the cans coming out with the pull ring type, the other type of opener may become obsolete. Anyhow, my hands are starting to go and we were looking at those new types of openers. Thanks, folks SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. I have one as well and LOVE it! Makes my life so much easier, plus I like being able to set it on the can and start it, and then continue on with what ever I am doing. Gwen, sometimes when they sit for a while unused the don't work and then you have to press the little reset button on them and they will start to work again. . . . . Donna . . . . 1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS...... 2.) J.K.M.A. > I have one as well and LOVE it! Makes my life so much easier, plus I > like being able to set it on the can and start it, and then continue on [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Donna I think maybe the OP was looking for brand names or models. That's what I'd like to know. Who has one they love and what kind is it. Dorothy Mine is simply called the One Touch can opener and can be found at places like bed/bath/and beyone, Meijer, Target, Kohls, etc. for $19.99. It is battery operated and you just set it on any size can, touch the button, and wham...it opens the can while you continue on with whatever you are doing. Wonderful and works even when the power is out! Couldn't get much easier and I have talked about 4-5 of my friends into getting one and each of them really likes it as well. . . . . Donna . . . . 1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS...... 2.) J.K.M.A. > Mine is simply called the One Touch can opener and can be found at > places like bed/bath/and beyone, Meijer, Target, Kohls, etc. for [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > out! Couldn't get much easier and I have talked about 4-5 of my friends > into getting one and each of them really likes it as well. Thanks Donna - that's what we needed to hear. Dorothy Mine is simply called the One Touch can opener and can be found at places like bed/bath/and beyone, Meijer, Target, Kohls, etc. for $19.99. It is battery operated and you just set it on any size can, touch the button, and wham...it opens the can while you continue on with whatever you are doing. Wonderful and works even when the power is out! Couldn't get much easier and I have talked about 4-5 of my friends into getting one and each of them really likes it as well. ok! i'll sure look for that one! thank you! kate . . . . Donna . . . . 1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS...... 2.) J.K.M.A. Kate, Thanks for sharing with us. I am glad to hear that the one touch jar opener is as wonderful as the one touch can opener is. I'll have to take a look at them the next time I am at the store! . . . . Donna . . . . 1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS...... 2.) J.K.M.A. hmmm, I didn't get the original for some reason....... I have the can opener - a gift from a couple of Christmases ago. I like it, but you have to change the batteries when it starts noticeably slowing down! A couple of times I though I could open "just one more can" only to have it lose all juice and get stuck on the can partway through! THAT s a royal pain to deal with! Oh, and you do still have to be careful about sharp edges, they are just on the top of the can sides rather than inside the rim. (and I worry about those edges until I get the cans up to the recycling trailer!) I've been wondering about the new jar opener - it's certainly less bulky than the B&D one! I'm doing well enough with my current tools and my husband's help to wait until someone in my family decides I need it as a gift. SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Change everything. Love & forgive. > I have one and it had worked fine until this week when I tried to use it; it > wouldn't work even though I put in new batteries. Had given my DIL one and [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thanks, folks hmmm, I didn't get the original for some reason....... I have the can opener - a gift from a couple of Christmases ago. I like it, but you have to change the batteries when it starts noticeably slowing down! A couple of times I though I could open "just one more can" only to have it lose all juice and get stuck on the can partway through! THAT s a royal pain to deal with! Oh, and you do still have to be careful about sharp edges, they are just on the top of the can sides rather than inside the rim. (and I worry about those edges until I get the cans up to the recycling trailer!) I've been wondering about the new jar opener - it's certainly less bulky than the B&D one! I'm doing well enough with my current tools and my husband's help to wait until someone in my family decides I need it as a gift. SignatureNann i have a one touch jar opener and i totally love it! soooo easy to use. i need a can opener that is that easy. i have a black and decker ergo can opener (which recharges itself on its base), but i have to struggle with getting it to bite into the can lid. need a better one. kate kate remove the Gator cheer to email me Change everything. Love & forgive. On Thu, 8 May 2008 18:20:26 -0400, sweetpickleNO@SPAMknology.net wrote (in message <4a774$482377ef$45491df5$25694@KNOLOGY.NET>): > I have one and it had worked fine until this week when I tried to use it; > it [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Thanks, folks Thanks so much for all the responses. I will pick one up next time we are by one of those places. My OT for my hands also wanted to know, as she was thinking of getting one for her mother. I also appreciate the added hints of the reset button and "don't try to squeeze one more if the battery is low!" SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. >I was wondering if I could get some feedback on those new "drop on top and >it opens the can" can and jar openers. My Mom has trouble with the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Thanks, folks I am so appreciative of all the feedback as my hands, now, too, must be used very gently. I have been going to an occupational therapist and she gave me a sheet of things to avoid with painful hands. Huh! It's a miracle my hands made it to 70 (well, almost) before hollerin' help! I plan to go by there tomorrow after I close on my refinancing of my home - lowered my monthly mortgage payment by almost $300 and got $23,000 cash to pay off some other things, including a credit card and some dental work, and.....replace the circuit breaker panel in my house. I just discovered that the brand used (some fifty or so years ago when the house was built) was not safe! Anyhow thanks for the feedback and suggested brands to get. SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. >I was wondering if I could get some feedback on those new "drop on top and >it opens the can" can and jar openers. My Mom has trouble with the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Thanks, folks >I am so appreciative of all the feedback as my hands, now, too, must be >used very gently. I have been going to an occupational therapist and she [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >that the brand used (some fifty or so years ago when the house was built) >was not safe! Anyhow thanks for the feedback and suggested brands to get. Good job,,, Navy. Even a lightning strike right on my house did not trip my breakers but the wire that was blown apart did start a fire. It cost my insurance $28,000 to replace all electronics in my house. People in older houses should replace their breaker box at the very least. Harv Harv -- when we bought this house in CA, the first thing we discovered was that it had Knob and Tube wiring which the insurance companies are now refusing to insure. In fact the CA State Leg. passed a law that says it is not to be used anymore after some date -- might have been 2008 but can't remember. We did manage to find someone to insure it but before we moved in, I paid to have the whole house rewired and up the box to double. So everything is new now. Figured by the time we go to sell it [or our heirs] they might have to replace it before it was sold. Wanted to use today's dollars instead of 20 years down the road. Reminds me, the house my daughter and family are renting still has fuses. I am surprised they are still sold. ;) Duckie > Good job,,, Navy. Even a lightning strike right on my house did not trip > my breakers but the wire that was blown apart did start a fire. It cost my > insurance $28,000 to replace all electronics in my house. People in older > houses should replace their breaker box at the very least. > Harv > Harv -- when we bought this house in CA, the first thing we discovered was > that it had Knob and Tube wiring which the insurance companies are now [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I am surprised they are still sold. ;) > Duckie :-) I know that cost you a lot but you sleep better and so will the next owner. Harv That is the truth. Duckie > :-) I know that cost you a lot but you sleep better and so will the next > owner. > Harv Harv -- when we bought this house in CA, the first thing we discovered was that it had Knob and Tube wiring which the insurance companies are now refusing to insure. In fact the CA State Leg. passed a law that says it is not to be used anymore after some date -- might have been 2008 but can't remember. We did manage to find someone to insure it but before we moved in, I paid to have the whole house rewired and up the box to double. So everything is new now. Figured by the time we go to sell it [or our heirs] they might have to replace it before it was sold. Wanted to use today's dollars instead of 20 years down the road. Reminds me, the house my daughter and family are renting still has fuses. I am surprised they are still sold. ;) Duckie knob and tube, as in ceramic knobs and tubes, with separate red and white or black wires? we were told by 3 different electricians that that was the safest kind of wiring, because the wires can't short each other out and the insulator knobs and tubes protect the wood studs from arcing burns, unlike wire staples (geesh, that was back in 1975. i can't believe i still remember that!LOL). but the fuse box was not safe (especially dangerous when cheapskates tried to save a few cents by using a copper penny in the fuse socket, instead of buying a new 15-cent fuse--many houses burned down because of that.). of course, we went ahead an upgraded to code, too. kate Harvey R. Stone wrote: > Good job,,, Navy. Even a lightning strike right on my house did not trip > my breakers but the wire that was blown apart did start a fire. It cost [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > houses should replace their breaker box at the very least. > Harv Yep you got the right stuff. Electricians tend to tell you that and that WAS true back when things didn't need three prongs for grounding which none of this had [pulled off the wall plate and find that the plates had been switched out to three prong but the wiring was only for two prong with nothing grounded. Also, I was told that it was long before we had tv's, dvds, air conditioners, microwaves, hair dryers .... you get the idea. The problem was over loading of all the circuits causing issues. Also apparently, most electricians stopped using it in 1940. Our house was built in 1940 so we got the question from the insurance companies. Had the house been built in 1941 the question would not have been asked. Actually glad it was though. Now the wiring will let the dryer, dishwasher, hair dryers et al. run at the same time without having to go out to the back and flick the circuit breakers which often happened in the house we were renting down the street. Duckie > knob and tube, as in ceramic knobs and tubes, with separate red and white or > black wires? we were told by 3 different electricians that that was the [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >>houses should replace their breaker box at the very least. >>Harv Yep you got the right stuff. Electricians tend to tell you that and that WAS true back when things didn't need three prongs for grounding which none of this had [pulled off the wall plate and find that the plates had been switched out to three prong but the wiring was only for two prong with nothing grounded. Also, I was told that it was long before we had tv's, dvds, air conditioners, microwaves, hair dryers .... you get the idea. The problem was over loading of all the circuits causing issues. Also apparently, most electricians stopped using it in 1940. Our house was built in 1940 so we got the question from the insurance companies. Had the house been built in 1941 the question would not have been asked. Actually glad it was though. Now the wiring will let the dryer, dishwasher, hair dryers et al. run at the same time without having to go out to the back and flick the circuit breakers which often happened in the house we were renting down the street. Duckie yeppers. i hear you. our house was originally built by a boeing engineer and his wife back in '48. the engineer was farsighted enough, when he designed the utilities, to include a huge amp service (for that era and this small a house) with an industrial scissor levered power cut-off switch that instantly cuts off all power to the house. that switch saved our butts and our home during a fire--and i cannot help blessing that engineer for his foresight. the fire's cause was a faulty professional installation of a ceiling heatlamp/fan combo, which cooked the wire insulation utimately causing a short-circuit that didn't trip the new circuit breaker to that bathroom (as is supposed to happen). that fire involved both upstairs and downstairs bathrooms and one of the attics, but could have been much worse. had butch done the installation himself, the fire wouldn't have occurred. but we relied upon the competence of our general contractor to hire competent sub-contractors for the bathroom remodel. both his subs, the electrician and plumber were terrible and butch had to correct their work in progress. but butch didn't spot the missing protective cover plate for the wires of the ceiling heatlamp/fan, because that installation was buttoned up by the time butch got home from work. a few months later, both new bathrooms were toast (the upstairs bathroom is directly above the downstairs bathroom). damn incompetent sub-contractor electrician nearly killed us. still, the engineer had only designed one grounded outlet, for the entire house. that outlet was in the old master bedroom for one 220-line recepticle -- neither butch nor i could figure out what the engineer's intended purpose for that was. there's adventure, as well as mystery, in discovering weird things when you buy old houses, eh?LOL kate d'huit wrote: > knob and tube, as in ceramic knobs and tubes, with separate red and white > or [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >>houses should replace their breaker box at the very least. >>Harv Thanks to all the information on can openers, jar openers, and circuit breakers. The quote of the one I think I'll use will "ground all existing outlet devices in sun room, attic, middle bathroom, added bedroom closet, and kitchen area. Install GFCI devices in [old] bathroom, and above counters in kitchen." That will cover what I need to have done. The other outlets are grounded to a solid ground, or through the power line. The new circuit breaker panel is almost double the old one. We got the can opener one and Mom can't wait to use it! What does everybody think of the new soup cans with the pull tab. I don't like them, sore hands aside, the dumb things can't be completely emptied without a lot of digging around the edge. Yuck! SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. >I was wondering if I could get some feedback on those new "drop on top and >it opens the can" can and jar openers. My Mom has trouble with the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Thanks, folks > Thanks to all the information on can openers, jar openers, and circuit > breakers. The quote of the one I think I'll use will "ground all [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > them, sore hands aside, the dumb things can't be completely emptied > without a lot of digging around the edge. Yuck! I hate the pull tab cans. Mostly because I'm getting old and cranky. Besides they are rough on my fake nails. Jo > Thanks to all the information on can openers, jar openers, and circuit > breakers. The quote of the one I think I'll use will "ground all existing [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > aside, the dumb things can't be completely emptied without a lot of digging > around the edge. Yuck! I use one of those "J hook" devices to lift the tab and usually just swish a bit of bottled water around to liberate the last of the barley, or whatever. I'm completely sold on pull tab cans.........................for now at least. Navy, I can't open them just with my hand. I stick a knife handle through the tab and prize up from the edge of the can. I also hate the ripples in the sides of the cans; you can't ever get all of the stuff out! Gwe Thanks to all the information on can openers, jar openers, and circuit breakers. The quote of the one I think I'll use will "ground all existing outlet devices in sun room, attic, middle bathroom, added bedroom closet, and kitchen area. Install GFCI devices in [old] bathroom, and above counters in kitchen." That will cover what I need to have done. The other outlets are grounded to a solid ground, or through the power line. The new circuit breaker panel is almost double the old one. We got the can opener one and Mom can't wait to use it! What does everybody think of the new soup cans with the pull tab. I don't like them, sore hands aside, the dumb things can't be completely emptied without a lot of digging around the edge. Yuck! SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. "Navy" <medical23SkidooFISH@sc.rr.com> wrote in message news:4823677a$0$7706$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... >I was wondering if I could get some feedback on those new "drop on top and >it opens the can" can and jar openers. My Mom has trouble with the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Thanks, folks I can't open them with my hand either. Thank goodness for those j-hook thingies. It's just that stuff gets under the edge and you can't get it out with a reasonable amount of rinsing. Too much and you end up with watery stuff. I wonder who came up with those things? Can opener works fine - thanks for the feedback on it. I don't know whether we need the jar opener yet. SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. > Navy, I can't open them just with my hand. I stick a knife handle through > the tab and prize up from the edge of the can. I also hate the ripples in [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >> >> Thanks, folks I can't open them with my hand either. Thank goodness for those j-hook thingies. It's just that stuff gets under the edge and you can't get it out with a reasonable amount of rinsing. Too much and you end up with watery stuff. I wonder who came up with those things? Can opener works fine - thanks for the feedback on it. I don't know whether we need the jar opener yet. y'know . . . it's funny i never thought of opening jars as being difficult for most of my life. but that new one touch is heaven sent. no more church keys under the lid's edge to pop the lid seal or running hot water on it or tapping edges or turning the jar upsidedown and rapping the lid on a flat surface or any of a half-dozen other things i used to do. have i mentioned i love my jar opener?<g> kate SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. <sweetpickleNO@SPAMknology.net> wrote in message news:8192c$482f8fae$45491df5$3594@KNOLOGY.NET... > Navy, I can't open them just with my hand. I stick a knife handle through > the tab and prize up from the edge of the can. I also hate the ripples in [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >> >> Thanks, folks
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