ZylissE930027U Safe Edge Can Opener Manual, Plastic, White

Did not work on some Cans

The media could not be loaded.  This is IMPOSSIBLE TO USE. Don’t waste your time. I have used these type of can openers before and this is the worst. Couldn’t get it to pierce the can. When I turned the handle, it came right off. I spent 20 minutes trying to get it to work. So irritating. Buy and OXO one instead.

I know its pricey for the item, however I will say this, the item works as intended extremely well. The edges are cleanly separated and will not cut you or anything else. I know its a small quality of life perk but when you open up as many cans as I do this tends to be a good investment. Even if it is a little pricier than other can openers. This one is pretty legit though.To whoever came up with this product, designed it and all deserves props. This is a SMALL quality of cooking change and I appreciate it. This is my second one too. These things are pretty awesome. I understand if you don't want to pay the price but if you do, you will be impressed with how cleanly the lid comes of the can. You can also easily wrap the top or but the top back on and stick it in the fridge for later use. It's pretty ridiculous but works. Great Job!!!

Me fue difícil entender cómo funciona. Busqué en YouTube cómo hacerlo y estoy encantada cómo abre las latas. Sin duda lo volvería a comprar.

Just got this can opener. Ordered it Sunday evening, and it's already here on Tuesday - with free shipping! Very pleased with this little beauty. Thank goodness, after suffering with the piece of garbage I've been using. True to the description, there are indeed no sharp edges. It doesn't take super strength to operate, either. And it also seems to have the ability to lift the lid off, but I didn't do it right yet. I thought at first that it didn't work because it was so easy to turn the handle and quiet, and I couldn't see the cut seam. But the lid came off. It has simple to follow diagram instructions on the label, and I was able to figure it out no problem. Would recommend this to anyone who is frustrated with a lousy can opener and needs something decent!

This is a revision of a review of this item that I posted on June 7, 2011.The Zyliss Safe Edge can opener operates in the same manner as a zipper operates in your clothing: unzipping the zipper does not slice a new swath through the garment’s fabric; instead opening the zipper just undoes the connection between two parts of the garment in the reverse of the manner that the zipper closed the garment in the first place. Similarly, the Zyliss Safe Edge can opener does not cut into the metal of a can that it opens — it just undoes the process that sealed the can at the cannery.At the time I wrote the original review, the “Product Description” of this Amazon listing INCORRECTLY claimed, “The Safe Edge Can Opener CUTS the seal where the lid and can meet. No more sharp edges! The hygienic CUTTING wheel never touches the food or leaves sharp edges on the can or lid.” Apparently the incorrect claim originally had described some *other* Zyliss brand can opener, and the description was copied to the description of this product in error. I started the June 7, 2011, version of this review by pointing out the error of that description. The new (current) product description now ERRONEOUSLY calls this a "side cutting" can opener. BZZT! Still wrong: this can opener does not *cut* anything.At a cannery, a lidless can, with straight, vertical sides, is filled with *whatever*. The lid, at that stage a separate piece, with a diameter greater than the diameter of the can's cylinder, and with a lip, is placed atop the filled can, then the lip of the lid and the top of the side of the can are rolled together and crimped to make an airtight seal.The great majority of can openers open the can by CUTTING the metal, either piercing the top of the can inside the crimp or slicing the top of the side of the can below the crimp; some of the side-opening can openers also roll the edge after cutting to reduce the danger of the user cutting himself or herself on the can after opening it. Can openers that cut downward into the lid force the user to fish the edge of the lid up from inside the can; can openers that cut into the side of the can below the crimp are notorious for allowing the contents of the opened can to spill onto the countertop. Any can opener that CUTS through metal can create and leave metal shavings behind that can get into the contents of the can.For several years we have owned the best electric can opener that the world ever has known, the legendary  Krups 404-70 Open Master Can Opener . (Unfortunately, the Open Master 404 was discontinued after German Krups was acquired by French Groupe SEB — although the Open Master 404 is still available USED from sellers here on Amazon.) Of course, we love our Open Master 404: it is, after all, the best electric can opener ever made. The neat and outstanding feature of the electric Open Master 404 is that it has NO cutting blade, and CANNOT cut metal; instead, it uncrimps the seal and unrolls the two formerly crimped layers of the seal at the top of the can, leaving the top and the cylinder of the can as two separate pieces with no sharp edges — the same state that the top and cylinder had been in before the contents were poured into the can and the cannery then rolled the two pieces of the can and crimped them at the top.After we have opened a can with the Krups Open Master and removed only as much of the contents as we need at the moment, we can replace the top securely onto the can for storage (preferably in the refrigerator). The top fits snugly onto the can, and thus protects the remaining contents of the can from spoilage better than aluminum foil or plastic cling film. We use this storage feature frequently for partially used cans of tomato paste or canned dog food.As useful as the Krups Open Master is, we still need a manual can opener for back-up. We have a store of canned foods set aside in our home in case of an emergency or a disaster — but if the disaster involves an electrical outage, if our only can opener cannot operate without electricity, what good would our canned food do us if we could not open the cans?The Zyliss Safe Edge Can Opener, which opens cans on the same principle and with the same kind of mechanism as the Open Master 404, is the answer. The Zyliss Safe Edge Can Opener is a member of a very small minority of can openers that DO NOT CUT INTO THE METAL OF THE CAN. Like the electric Krups Open Master, the manual Zyliss Safe Edge Can Opener does not have any cutting blade or cutting wheel, so it cannot cut metal; it just un-crimps and unrolls the rolled lip of the can in a reverse of the process that crimped the lid to the can cylinder in the cannery. (Of course, we never have seen metal filings in our food, because this can opener simply cannot generate metal filings.) The can and its top after being opened by a Zyliss Safe Edge are exactly the same as the can and its top after being opened by a Krups Open Master 404 — and that is a good result. It is the best way to open a can.Some other reviewers of the Zyliss Safe Edge can opener here on Amazon have mentioned difficulty in removing the top from the can after un=crimping the top seal. We have not found any difficulty whatsoever — but we confess that we have never attempted to use the all-too-cute lid grabber “feature” of the Zyliss. After using and removing the Zyliss Safe Edge, the edge of the lid protrudes ever so sightly outside the top of the can; we simply grasp the side of can with our hand and push up the edge of the lid with our thumb. (We learned to do this years ago with the Krups Open Master, which lacks the “lid grabber” feature altogether, and never needed it.) What could be simpler?Several other reviews under this listing, and some of the persons who have commented on this review of the Zyliss Safe Edge Can Opener, refer to a "cutting wheel" or the "cutting blade." That is a sure sign that the person has used and is describing some *other* can opener, not this one. Among those persons who have commented on this review are some who INSIST that THEIR Zyliss can openers DO cut into the can; we assume that they have used one of several similar-appearing models of Zyliss can openers, such as the best-selling  Zyliss Lock N' Lift Manual Can Opener with Lid Lifter Magnet, White , that do cut metal, and that they have confused that different item that they have used with the Safe Edge can opener. We encourage the reader to look closely at the top photograph in the Amazon listing of the Lock N' Lift: that photo prominently displays the kind of cutting blade that Zyliss deemed necessary to cut through the steel of a metal can; it is a very wide diameter wheel, the rim of which is a sharpened edge designed to cut metal. Contrast the small diameter smooth wheel of the Zyliss Safe Edge in first photo at the bottom of this review, and you will see that there is NOTHING in the Zyliss Safe Edge mechanism that looks anything at all like the cutting blade of the Lock N' Lift can opener. The Safe Edge can opener does not have a BLADE; indeed, lacking any cutting device, the Zyliss Safe Edge can opener cannot cut metal; it is incapable of making a cut into the top or side of a metal can.Because some commentators on this review insist, against the clear evidence, that the Zyliss Safe Edge can opener has a cutting blade, I have added to this review also the last of the seven photos that are part of the Safe Edge product listing here on Amazon; that photo shows an absence of any cut in the can's seal, just separation of the two pieces. Perhaps the reviewers and commenters were confused because of the incorrect former description of this item on Amazon, but any statement that refers to a can opener that CUTS or that leaves metal shavings behind belongs under some other listing, not this one. The two photos attached to this review, the first of which was taken by the reviewer (me), and the second, which is a part of the product listing itself, illustrate that point.With the Zyliss Safe Edge manual can opener handy, should we have an emergency or a disaster that deprives us of electric power, the Zyliss Safe Edge will allow us to use our stash of canned food. And if we want to use the contents of a can over a period of days, we can pour or scoop out some of the contents of a can, and put the top back on the can to preserve the remainder for the next use.The Zyliss Safe Edge can opener: it is the best way to open a can manually. Krups 404-70 Open Master Can OpenerZyliss Lock N' Lift Manual Can Opener with Lid Lifter Magnet, White

Confusing to use and does not work well.