Canned food is often a great way to stretch your shopping budget. Canned foods offer your family nutrition that they might otherwise miss out on. Also, canned foods only need to be heated to eat, as they are fully cooked during the canning process. Canned foods are a great way to add fruits and vegetables to your menu, but you need to have an electric can opener to get into those great food cans.
Many of the manual can openers available today simply don’t work well. They tend to slide on the edges of the can and fail to remove the lid so you can remove the contents. The manual opener can also be difficult if you do not have manual dexterity. Electric models solve many of these problems.
Electric openers are sold in countertop and under-cabinet models. Permanently mounted models are a great way to keep your countertop uncluttered. They are not limited in the size of the can they can open. However, you need to make sure the can is securely fastened or it may fall over and spill the contents making a big mess.
Countertop models are probably the most popular. While they do require counter space, they do a good job of opening cans. Larger sized cans may require a taller tabletop model. This applies to coffee cans and institutional-size gallon cans.
Openers with removable blades are the easiest to clean. If you choose an opener with replaceable blades, you don’t need to throw out the entire opener just because the blades get dull. Also, the removable blades are typically dishwasher safe. This can prevent contamination of your food.
Canned foods can add nutrition to your family’s diet. Nutrients are preserved and food is often cheap. To open all the cans, an electric can opener is the easiest to operate.
