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Unpopular opinion: my $3 garage sale can opener beat a $40 Oneida, but here is the trick that made me stop buying kitchen gadgets
I bought a $40 Oneida can opener from Bed Bath in 2022 and it stripped its gears after 6 months, so I dug out a $3 rusty one from a garage sale in Reno. The trick was to stop cranking like a madman and just let the cutter bite, then turn slow with steady pressure. That cheap thing has now opened 4 cans a week for 18 months, over 300 cans total, and it still works fine. My wife says I am crazy for trusting a garage sale tool over a brand name, and my brother says I just got lucky with a good one. So which is it, do cheap kitchen tools last if you treat them right, or did I just find a unicorn? I want to hear if anyone else has a junk store hero that outlasted the fancy stuff.
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ray18912d ago
You really think one good garage sale find proves anything? For every dude bragging about a 300 can opener there are 50 people who bought the same junk and got rust flakes in their soup. The whole reason people pay for Oneida and OXO is that a brand has to hit a certain standard every single time, while a garage sale tool only has to work once to become some guy's internet legend, which is called survivor bias. Your slow crank method probably does help, sure, but a lot of cheap openers are made of soft metal that bends no matter how gentle you are. You got a good one and you know it.
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