Opening a tin is one of those small jobs that quietly disappears when grip goes. The One Touch Automatic Can Opener puts it back. Your client sits it on the lid, presses the button once, and the opener walks itself around the rim, cuts the lid free and stops on its own. There is no handle to squeeze and no wheel to turn.
It cuts below the rim, so both the lid and the can are left with a smooth edge and there is nothing sharp to catch a hand on. It runs on batteries, wipes clean and is small enough to live in a kitchen drawer rather than take up bench space.
Who it suits
A client with arthritis in the hands, reduced grip after a stroke, or one functional hand, who wants to keep preparing their own meals. It needs only the strength to press a button and lift the opener off. A client with a tremor may find the opener wanders if it is not placed square on the lid, so test it first; a wall mounted or bench clamped opener is the alternative.
Good to know
- Batteries not included
- Does not work on ring-pull cans that have no rim seam or on oval cans outside the size range
- Wipe clean; do not immerse
