Tonight I am ranting about the Smooth Edge Can Opener from Pampered Chef. Let me preface this by stating that I love Pampered Chef and own many, many, many items. I have never been dissatisfied...until I bought their can opener. Apparently you need a PhD to use it. I have yet to open a single can--I have excelled at denting quite a few. Here is a picture of the culprit:
A few weeks ago, I was trying to make some chili. I forgot about the can opener and didn't realize my issue until I had to open 5 or 6 cans of stuff. I tried several times to use the thing, looked up information on the internet and I couldn't figure it out. I finally succumbed and asked my neighbor Barry for his can opener. He said that my request to borrow said kitchen utensil was the "strangest request" he had ever received. Duly noted.
I went back with Barry's can opener and happily opened my 5 or 6 cans. I rushed it back to him....only to realize I had missed a couple more cans! I was too proud to go back to ask for the can opener again, so I zipped over to Rite Aid and picked up a can opener for about $5. This one worked good enough.....oh well. Maybe you can only take the idea of being a Pampered Chef so far....
2 comments:
Your neighbor should have been more pampering of the pregnant chef. Oh well. At least you were neighborly-- I would have hauled my butt to the store first thing. Or made my husband pick up take-out.
Anyway, you can't be the only one who has had trouble with that can opener. Two words: design failure.
Dear Michelle, I finally have the time to catch up with your blog postings and I read that you don't like the Pampered Chef can opener. I did have problems with it at first, because I kept trying to get it to work like other openers, it doesn't. It is still a mystery as to how it does get the lid off, so I have stopped trying to figure out how....I just know that it does the job, cleanly.
I love it now, it is the best can opener I have ever used. I hope you still have it as I will be there soon and will show you the way to use it.
It doesn't leave a sharp edge on cans. It doesn't get dirty and leave germs on it, like the others do. There is a pincer piece on the side that lifts off the lid. Once you know how to use it you may change your opinion of it. Lovingly, #7's Nana.
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