I can easily say that every time I've used a can opener, this is how it went. Press the handles together to clamp the circular, metal blades down on the top of the can, inside the rim.

Have we been doing this wrong the whole time? Every adult American is probably 100% confident that they know how to work a can-opener properly. For some of us, it may be the only kitchen “gadget ...

Next, she grabs a can opener that sports the familiar-looking gears in the middle used to fasten to tab-less canned items. It’s not this part of the opener that she’s using for the tab, however.

When you’re in the wilderness or facing a crisis, having a multi-tool and the know-how to use its can opener can make all the difference. The canned food you open could be a key to your survival.

@neat.caroline shared that the proper way to use a can opener is to hold it flat against the lid - despite the fact that we’d all probably automatically attempt it on the side.

Americans have owned can openers for more than a century, the design evolving ever since the original model in 1858. "I think the most interesting part of the can opener's history is that it was ...