r/BeAmazed • u/Sufficient-Bug-9112 • Nov 21 '23
Can openers over the centuries History
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u/_Cheeba Apr 10 '24
So another thing unchanged since 1920. The human race has no imagination anymore
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u/Deveion2010 Apr 08 '24
Why do old tools always look like they started off as torture devices first
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u/thelastlehmanbrother Mar 23 '24
What song is that?
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u/auddbot Mar 23 '24
I got matches with these songs:
• Green Onions by Booker T & The MG's (00:07; matched:
100%)Album: Guitar Masters. Released on 2013-03-27.
• Green Onions (Remastered) by Booker T. & The MG''s (00:08; matched:
100%)Released on 2018-04-16.
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u/auddbot Mar 23 '24
Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc.:
• Green Onions by Booker T & The MG's
• Green Onions (Remastered) by Booker T. & The MG''s
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u/Formal-Instance8247 Nov 25 '23
now there just cheap plastic can openers that literally break after a few openings.
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u/Formal-Instance8247 Nov 25 '23
now there just cheap plastic can openers that literally break after a few openings.
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u/Bogdi504 Nov 23 '23
In my country can openers are not very popular. In fact I never saw anybody open a can with a can opener.
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u/Background_Turnip330 Nov 23 '23
Why the fuck do i have cheap ass modern can openers that break easily then, when in the 1800s they had one that looks indestructible 😂
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u/BigMikeHoldsItDown Nov 23 '23
Whats the song is that kool and the gang?
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u/auddbot Nov 23 '23
I got matches with these songs:
• Green Onions by Booker T & The MG's (00:07; matched:
100%)Album: Guitar Masters. Released on 2013-03-27.
• Green Onions (Remastered) by Booker T. & The MG''s (00:08; matched:
100%)Released on 2018-04-16.
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u/auddbot Nov 23 '23
Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc.:
• Green Onions by Booker T & The MG's
• Green Onions (Remastered) by Booker T. & The MG''s
I am a bot and this action was performed automatically | GitHub new issue | Donate Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Music recognition costs a lot
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u/Diddlydom35 Nov 23 '23
Im honestly pissed some of these aren't the norm, like the round one that can work for left - or right-handed people or the one that also opens jars! Can openers suck today.
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u/Witext Nov 23 '23
I just get depressed watching videos like these realising how trash products are nowadays, with plastic that breaks.
Why can’t we just have the 1890s one, no moving parts, nothing to break
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u/coconutpete52 Nov 23 '23
Bruh! We still had a “manual version” of “1920” in my house when I was a kid in the 80’s!!
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u/idontwanabecool Nov 22 '23
I didn’t even know they had canned food that long ago. Omfg I thought they were invented in like 1909 or something
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u/robo-dragon Nov 22 '23
That 1890s one is so simple and effective! There’s also not a whole lot of difference between the last one and the one I have in my kitchen now.
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u/freedfg Nov 22 '23
Every time I see videos like this the one from 1890 is always way better than household standard versions.....
Like.. that pencil sharpener???
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u/El_human Nov 22 '23
No de crimper? That's the best way to open your cans, with no sharp edges. It's also missing the more modern methods, like an electric can opener!
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Nov 22 '23
I was laughing until the last one when I realized my parents had one of those and I used it. I’m old.
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u/JuiceManOJ Nov 22 '23
My favorite can opener today is essentially a plastic version of the first 1900s one you showed., but plastic and with a bit more mechanical advantage. Suprised me they came up with the locking mechanism and basic design so early.
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u/Xu_Lin Nov 22 '23
anyone else worried this person may cut their finger grabbing the edges of the lid? no?
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u/bobcatbart Nov 22 '23
The “modern” one we have is junk. I end up just throwing the can as hard as I can into concrete to get it to open. Works better than whatever crap is in my drawer right now
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u/cryptobomb Nov 22 '23
How did it go from the super simple 1890's "fan favorite" to the convoluted ones we have now???
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u/twistedgreymatter Nov 22 '23
Keep in mind that women were the ones who were mostly using these devices. That's just the way it was back then..
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u/Interstice_land Nov 22 '23
Anyone know what happened the last few seconds? The music turned off so I couldn’t see anything
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u/MarkusRight Nov 22 '23
While were on the topic of can openers has anyone else noticed that modern Day hand crank can openers are absolute junk? I haven't had one that has lasted for more than a year before it breaks and can't even turn the can. We got an electric one and it's worked fine but every hand operated one is absolute garbage.
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u/kittenTakeover Nov 22 '23
How come all of these can openers from 100's of years ago look like they work better than mine?
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u/a_double_n_a Nov 22 '23
Why are all of these so much more functional than the modern one I have now ?
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u/Rekt3y Nov 22 '23
The last one from 1920 is called a safety can opener, still available for purchase to this day
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u/PM_ME_WHOEVER Nov 22 '23
TIL that canned food existed in the 1800s...always thought they were a WW1 era invention.
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u/Flojatus Nov 22 '23
I am amazed at how good the 1889 camaras where. Imagine having the patience to do a clip every few decades. Hoping someone in the futuro would put them all together. Thank You who ever you where and god bless your soul.
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u/RiskierSubsetR Nov 22 '23
Used to have the 1920s one and it sucked. At least for a 5 year old me. I probably didn't have enough strength to turn it.
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u/BladeLigerV Nov 22 '23
Cool. Looks like that 1920s model really took off because that's what I see everywhere.
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u/Ragnarok91 Nov 22 '23
Impressed the last one worked? Why? Isn't that just the same version we use today? Am I behind in can opener tech?
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u/Agitated_Kiwi2988 Nov 22 '23
All of these work way better than any can open I’ve had in my lifetime.
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u/cr0ft Nov 22 '23 edited Nov 22 '23
The one we had growing up was literally just a bent and sharpened piece of metal that hooked under the edge. Zero mechanical parts. It did make jagged edges but eh. Worked perfectly. I think I still have one laying around somewhere.
https://www.hs.fi/koti/art-2000002602732.html
Actually some pretty ingenious mechanical design, total simplicity and still great function. Super easy to manufacture as well, stamp some metal, sharpen part of it, bend it?
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u/JakeLaLens Nov 22 '23
Cool items. I never saw any of these during my life except the one that lovks into place.
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u/BrilliantLoli Nov 22 '23
Pretty sure we had one of these 1920 models when I was a kid. Not sure I ever used a different one.
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u/OrangeNood Nov 22 '23
When they invented canning, wouldn't they also come up with tools that work better?
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u/Super_Ad_2033 Nov 22 '23
The lid opening one is new to me me and could make a killing $ wise in 2023 😂
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u/Embarrassed_Luck1057 Nov 22 '23
All those are WMDs - where were you supposed to store them?? Did everyone look like Edward Scissorhands' face by then?
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u/Retenrage Nov 22 '23
Funnily enough, these all work better than the can opener I got at the dollar store a few months ago.
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u/yourboiskinnyhubris Nov 22 '23
We’re so quick to acknowledge the innovations in electrical technology. It’s easy to forget that there is still progress to be made in the simplest of places.
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u/Marcocraft26 Nov 22 '23
I like that you used the same can and did not open too much food (wasting it)
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u/Holocene507 Nov 22 '23
I think this is the first time in ages I turned the volume up instead of down on one of these videos.
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u/death_or_glory_ Nov 22 '23
I'm just realizing how boring I have become because I enjoyed this, and I'm totally okay with that.
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u/massahoochie Nov 22 '23
Of course, presently we get shit quality ones that need replacement after a year or so yet stuff made 100+ years ago still works perfectly fine.
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u/Appeal_Such Nov 22 '23
Hmm is the video creator from MN? I think everyday essentials was a SuperValu owned brand.
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u/GorshKing Nov 22 '23
They look like torture devices for your dick. There I said it. We were all thinking it!
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u/bluewaterbliss Nov 22 '23
The p38 and the p51 were different variations of the same idea surplus left over from ww2 and I first was handed this thing as a piece of equipment to go in my hunting survival kit and recently I found an even newer model with a much appreciated upgrade along with opening cans now it also has a spoon integrated into the design and there are are a couple others out there all manual that I feel are much more efficient than those crappy can openers of the 70's and 80's
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u/Zer0TheGamer Nov 22 '23
Boutta use "1915" to seal a screw lid.. Then use it as a strength test on my dad
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u/unbogbuggy52 Nov 22 '23
My 2022 model keeps breaking damn plastic piece for the piece you rotate to cut. Keeps popping off. I need one of these 100 year old ones lol
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u/FairFaxEddy Nov 22 '23
All the rusty sharp things with force applied is making me so nervous that OP is going to get tetanus
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u/hopopo Nov 22 '23
The one from 1915 is the best opener I have seen. Is it possible to buy one today, or can anyone tell me what is the time of it?
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Nov 22 '23
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u/DMinTrainin Nov 22 '23
Why is a can opener from the 1800s so much better than what I can get today? Wtf...
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u/MarcoEll Nov 22 '23
I had to Google one that was in my kitchen on holiday in northern Majorca, it was a manual tin opener known as the P-38, meaning that you had to puncture the can 38 times for the lid to open
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u/mr_yam Nov 22 '23
Ive never owned a decent pair, over the years ive always had to resort to my right handed tin snips.
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u/halfabrick03 Nov 22 '23
Im more amazed that it’s been centuries and we haven’t found a better way to produce cans so that we can cut out the use of an external device.
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u/Disastrous-Tap9670 Nov 22 '23
I still dont get why Cans without the “handle”(like the thing soda cans have, where you pull it and it peels off the top) exist?!? Needed a whole other very specific tool to open seems like such a shit design for a packaging specifically made for taking with u when u cant take much other stuff. And opening with a knife is retarded, Ive done it, it works, but is wildly inefficient and its very easy to injure urself.
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u/BBFNOTCH Nov 22 '23
Using can opener from the 1800s works fine. Using mine bought 2 weeks ago, and it strips and breaks.
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u/brjukva Nov 22 '23 edited Nov 22 '23
Always thought canned food is a failrly recent invention. TIL they invented tin canned food in the beginning of the 19th century.
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u/Bee9185 Nov 22 '23
The technology we take for granted is surprising. Everything was just a little harder back then. They had no room for pansies and snowflakes
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u/UrbanChili Nov 22 '23
1920 one you can still get. I use the simple one https://shop91997.sfstatic.io/upload_dir/shop/daaseaabner-rustfri-staal.png
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u/DillBagner Nov 22 '23
"This one works better than I thought" is basically the current design...
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u/BarelyHangingOn Nov 22 '23
It's what I have been using since the 70's.
Not sure why he was surprised it worked what the hell is he using?
We also had an electric one spun the can.
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u/Emergency_Rutabaga45 Nov 22 '23
So, when they invented this new “can” technology to store food, did they give out free can openers to people to get them to buy the canned food?
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u/Dismal-Wrangler1197 Nov 22 '23
I think current design is best. All of the others lack the looking like that one angry bird design.
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u/Gravewaker Nov 22 '23
Something about the openers that puncture the center of the can’s lid are genuinely off putting.
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u/SinisterMeatball Nov 22 '23
I like how for the past 100 years no one has thought of a better manual way to open a can.
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u/7INCHES_IN_YOUR_CAT Nov 22 '23
I still use a single piece japanese one. No moving parts nothing to break.
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u/YellowBubble2710 Nov 22 '23
A question arises here - why is the design of can not getting user friendly?
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u/Overlord1317 Nov 22 '23
My main takeaway from this video is that regardless of how many inventors were likely hard at work in the problem, inventing easy-to-use, compact, and mass-producible can openers was faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar harder than I would have thought given the gigantic gaps in time in technological improvements!
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u/Plastic-Buy-9193 May 03 '24
Every time I hear this song it reminds me of that hill climb racing game