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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Cordelia Aspinall

Best electric can openers to get into tins with ease

When kitting out your kitchen, there is one humble item that is often forgotten among the purchasing of pots, pans, toasters and kettles - and you only know when it’s too late.

A can opener is a stape but if you’ve struggled to crack into cans with one of the manual cranks or you’ve spent more time than you’d like to admit trying to lift the lid of your baked beans tin (and been left with cut hands and only a semi-opened can with beans spilling out everywhere), it’s time to go electric.

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