Blow Your Mind - You are using your canopener wrong

The old way the lids would drop into the cans.

Food in cans? How quaint!

Yep. I've been learning the art of knife sharpening and knife making. I have a collection of water stones, sandpaper, and a 1x30 Harbor Fright belt sander. I'm far from proficient, but am getting better with practice.

So far, I've only cut myself once. I didn't feel anything until I saw the blood all over everything I had touched after cutting myself. I'm on blood thinner (Plavix) so I managed to make the shop look like the site of a massacre before feeling any pain.

Not good unless all you knives are beveled for the exact same angle. Different types of knives require different angles:

Agreed.

I use two cans at once but don't bother with the rum. ;-)

This is nothing new. There have been can openers that are *designed* to do this for fifty years. None work well, though.

Wimps, you need all this fancy s*it to open a can.

A bit more physical approach :

For the Russians when they are not watching their 5 year old kids reprogram US defense department comnputers :

Tools schnoolz.

A small can of Coke will make a big rum+coke.

You are thinking of the wrong kind of beans. Baked beans are a different kind of food from the beans you are talking about. Your kind of beans are certainly nice, and don't (usually) come out a can - but you wouldn't have them with your fish and chips. The difference is a bit like ketchup and pasta sauce, that are both kinds of tomato sauce but you would never mix them up.

use a magnet! we store our magnets on the fridge.

the can. But as you?ll see in the video below, that is the wrong me thod.

I've never tried this with a regular can opener, but you can buy can openers which are designed to bend out the crimp so that the lid will lift off.

I'll shout out for Campbell's tomato soup, mixed with milk and served with a grilled cheese sandwich on the side for dipping... (I add some basil to the soup too.)

George H.

How did we win the war with all the sharp edges on that can lid. It's a miracle anyone made it home.

The P-38 also called the John Wayne, here's why.

Mikek

Red Beans and Rice is a serious meal in Louisiana where I'm from. Beer, bread, maybe a salad on the side. Some fraction of the world lives on beans and rice.

Mo is from Boston, to she makes the Boston Baked Beans, which is a side dish. But not from a can.

When you cook beans, may as well make a huge batch and freeze a few future meals. That's like being able to open cans, but tastes a lot better.

I put orange juice in the rum and rarely drink cola. It still tastes like medicine, which is what it was.

Rum + OJ is better than a screwdriver.

Beans? Which reminds me that:

A student of music from Sparta, Was a truly magnificent farter. On the gas of one bean, He'd fart God save the Queen, And Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

Do you enjoy limericks? Lots more are at:

Jeff

I don't think I ever cut myself on them. For me the bigger concern is the dirty top of the lid when it falls into the can.

You would if you make tomato sauce instead of getting it from a jar. (Although Rao's is worth buying when it's on sale.)

Try mozzarella in carrozza. It's grilled cheese using mozzarella instead of cheddar, and you first cut the bread crusts off and cut it into wedges, and dip in egg and fry. You dip them in tomato sauce.

Soak the beans first, and pour off the water. That removes the sugars that seed any anti-personnell effects.