One Touch Can Opener review: If it only kept working ...
Filed under: Home, Shopping, Consumer Ally, As Seen on TV
The Product: One Touch Can Opener
The Price: $19.95, plus $6.95 shipping and handling
The Claims: "The last can opener you will ever buy"
Buy-O-Meter Rating: 1 out of 5
One Touch Can Opener broke my heart.
When I first met the sleek and automatic One Touch, I thought: "Where have you been all my life?"
The palm-sized gadget did everything it promised. And how often do you find one of those?
I placed the opener on top of a soup can, pushed its gray button and round and round it went until the can.... opened.
No messing around with the blade, trying to clamp it on the rim. Just set and go.
At first, One Touch opened everything -- regular cans of vegetables, as well as super-sized cans of soup. Nothing stopped it. Nothing slowed it down. It was like a machine. (OK, it was a machine.)
Then, about 10 days later, One Touch met a tiny can of tomato paste.
The opener started smoothly enough, but it soon ground to a halt, motionless, mute and difficult to pry off the half-opened lid.
After that, One Touch lost interest. Sometimes its gears would turn; others, it would just lay there, like a lox.
Desperate, I changed its batteries, because One Touch has a reputation for burning through batteries. But that didn't help.
I even gave One Touch a little slap, hoping that would turn it on. Nothing.
Thing is, I wasn't in the market for the latest model: My old manual opener had been an unfailing kitchen partner for more than 10 years.
But a little age, a little curiosity made my eye wander. And the shiny, new One Touch claimed it would never fail me -- $27 including shipping and handling.
Who needs an automatic anything you can't trust?
What if Thanksgiving arrived, and I was desperate to open that can of cranberry sauce? What if I had a terrible cold, and I couldn't open chicken soup?
You'll probably sneer, "It's your own fault. Why can't you cook from scratch? Why must you turn to cans?"
Oh sure, blame the victim.
But I blame One Touch.
This automatic can opener is a tease.
And nobody likes a tease.
Veteran journalist Lisa Kaplan Gordon has never met a gadget she didn't want to try. She reviews As Seen on TV products for Consumer Ally on WalletPop.com.
The Price: $19.95, plus $6.95 shipping and handling
The Claims: "The last can opener you will ever buy"
Buy-O-Meter Rating: 1 out of 5
One Touch Can Opener broke my heart.
When I first met the sleek and automatic One Touch, I thought: "Where have you been all my life?"
The palm-sized gadget did everything it promised. And how often do you find one of those?
I placed the opener on top of a soup can, pushed its gray button and round and round it went until the can.... opened.
No messing around with the blade, trying to clamp it on the rim. Just set and go.
At first, One Touch opened everything -- regular cans of vegetables, as well as super-sized cans of soup. Nothing stopped it. Nothing slowed it down. It was like a machine. (OK, it was a machine.)
Then, about 10 days later, One Touch met a tiny can of tomato paste.
The opener started smoothly enough, but it soon ground to a halt, motionless, mute and difficult to pry off the half-opened lid.
After that, One Touch lost interest. Sometimes its gears would turn; others, it would just lay there, like a lox.
Desperate, I changed its batteries, because One Touch has a reputation for burning through batteries. But that didn't help.
I even gave One Touch a little slap, hoping that would turn it on. Nothing.
Thing is, I wasn't in the market for the latest model: My old manual opener had been an unfailing kitchen partner for more than 10 years.
But a little age, a little curiosity made my eye wander. And the shiny, new One Touch claimed it would never fail me -- $27 including shipping and handling.
Who needs an automatic anything you can't trust?
What if Thanksgiving arrived, and I was desperate to open that can of cranberry sauce? What if I had a terrible cold, and I couldn't open chicken soup?
You'll probably sneer, "It's your own fault. Why can't you cook from scratch? Why must you turn to cans?"
Oh sure, blame the victim.
But I blame One Touch.
This automatic can opener is a tease.
And nobody likes a tease.
Veteran journalist Lisa Kaplan Gordon has never met a gadget she didn't want to try. She reviews As Seen on TV products for Consumer Ally on WalletPop.com.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 11)
10-14-2010 @ 2:52PM
Judy said...
I have bought two of the One Touch can openers and the same thing happened. They work for a while and then quit. I tried to take out the battery but no can do. I will probbly buy another because they are so great.
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10-14-2010 @ 3:26PM
jbigmacdaddy74 said...
You needed to be kicked twice tofind out it didnt work.
10-14-2010 @ 3:52PM
Jim said...
Fool me once . . . twice . . . three times ???
10-14-2010 @ 7:56PM
Debra said...
I absolutely loved this can opener. It was so nice to not have one taking up counter space and it worked well for maybe a year. My parents had one too. There's got stuck on a can and about two months later so did mine. I am not sure if I would buy another one. I sure enjoyed it while it lasted.
10-18-2010 @ 1:07PM
Rosemary said...
I bought two of them also. LOVED THEM PERFECT!!! Boom they stopped working. I should have returned them but time passed and didn't. I guess thats how they make their money on people don't return them Lesson learned.
10-18-2010 @ 3:07PM
Terri Drury said...
Judy:
Why on God's green earth would you continue to throw good money after bad? If after a short while they all just die the product is no good so what is the point..... Invest in a can opener that is in it for the long haul....
11-07-2010 @ 4:36PM
poot said...
I bought one for $15.95, and have been using it for four years with no problems. Gotta make sure the batteries are in good shape though, and know how to finish it manually if it stops running.
10-14-2010 @ 2:53PM
morekare said...
We had a "One Touch Can Opener" and it worked fine at first. Then, the same thing happened --- it just quit working. We're back to turning the dial of the original old fashioned can opener. It might be old fashioned but it is RELIABLE.
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10-18-2010 @ 9:01AM
William Witt said...
We bought one and it did the same thing I dont think it lasted through the 2nd day. People that put things on the market like that should be tried and jailed for fraud because if that thing wasn't fraud they might as well do away with fraudlent courts.Funny thing is I would like to have another one that really worked. They certainly should be made to make it good.
11-07-2010 @ 4:39PM
poot said...
I wonder how many people simply had the batteries go dead on them...
10-14-2010 @ 2:53PM
Jo Ann said...
Its sucks!! The same thing happened to me! Loved it when it worked not even 2 months later dead as a door nail!!! Don't wast your time or money on the overated can opener. They have not perfected it.
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10-14-2010 @ 3:22PM
vivian said...
the same thing happened to me I used it once and it stopped working A BIG RIP OFF I threw mine away
10-14-2010 @ 4:18PM
chuck said...
I couldn't agree with you more... I purchased 2 of them... one for my daughter, and one for myself..
Mine went out first.... and her's followed a couple of months later. Sure wished that I had kept the receipt... but when we both first tried them we never in our wildest thoughts , thought that they were flawed.
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10-14-2010 @ 8:29PM
Leslie said...
Why in the world would you buy another one when it didn't last more than a month? You must like giving your money away and making the manufacturer rich. Stupid......................
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10-14-2010 @ 6:20PM
jennifer said...
She bought TWO of them AT THE SAME TIME. Read the comment again before you call someone stupid. PS: I got reported to the aol police for calling someone an idiot.
10-14-2010 @ 3:02PM
Sammie said...
I have a one touch that I've used for 4 years now. I have only changed the batteries twice and it works like a charm. I open every can with it, no problems. My evaluation: 5 stars!
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10-14-2010 @ 3:57PM
rascal said...
My experience is the same. Maybe we're just lucky or maybe we took the time to read the instructions!
10-14-2010 @ 4:59PM
joan said...
I have mine for 3 years and I agree, its great...never failed me. I would definitely buy another.
10-14-2010 @ 6:35PM
Pat said...
I have mine at least 4 years & it works every time. The batteries last a very long time.
There is a RESET BUTTON on it ..Hope the rest of you know that.!?? It resets the gears when it doesn't complete its cycle start to finish. Things come with DIRECTIONS for a reason.... I give it 5 stars as well.
10-14-2010 @ 7:12PM
Sabrah said...
I've had mine for several years and it has always worked really well. I love it.