Morphy Richards Multifunction Can Opener 46718 Black Tin
Morphy Richards Multifunction Can Opener 46718 Black Tin Opene
Twist-Off Bottle Cap Opener
Place the multi-opening tool on the bottle top, hold the bottle at its base and twist the tool anti-clockwise to easily remove the lid.
Pop-Off Bottle Cap Opener
The tool also acts as a traditional bottle top opener, perfect for parties.
Plastic Packaging
The plastic packaging opener on the multi-opening tool cuts through difficult hard plastic wrapping and packaging with ease. Simply slide down the sides of packaging, reducing the risk of cuts and scratches from using scissors.
| Weight: | 1.2 kg |
| Dimensions: | 13 x 14 x 23.5 cm; 1.2 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Morphy Richards |
| Model: | 46718 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Dimensions: | 13 x 14 x 23.5 cm; 1.2 Kilograms |
Originally got one of these my mother, who was struggling to open regular cans because of arthritis in her hands. She’s been using it for almost a year now and although this was her first electric can opener, she soon got used to using it.
I purchased a second one on how well it performed and have been using it… then a few months back I broke my wrist and it’d been exceptional for me since then. While not amazing for one handed use, the magnet is strong enough to hold a can while I press the lever down to start it with the same hand.
I have tried the rubber grip in the past for opening jars and found it to be less than useful due to the large size of it. Having to grip that was somewhat harder than opening a sealed jar. However, to reopened existing jars makes it super easy.
Have not tried the bottle/cap opener part.
It’s been pretty easy to clean, and lives on the worktop now as an every day tool in the kitchen. It’s not exactly loud, but you know it’s being used, but won’t wake anyone up at night.
The power cable is rather short, having standard height plug sockets above the worktop, half the cable is already used just to go up the wall, as such it does need to be quite close to the outlet.
I wanted to use it next to our Microwave oven and toaster, but the cable constraints meant we had to move it to another set of sockets. Just be something to be aware of.
I had one of these for many years and it broke, so I decided to buy a new one. I had been struggling trying to open cans with a manual one. This is really great quick and easy. I don’t really use the other attachments
I’ve been using the Morphy Richards Multifunction Can Opener for a few weeks now and I’m really impressed with it. It’s so easy to use – just place the can under the opener, press the button, and it does the rest. The can opener is also very sturdy and well-made, and it comes with a built-in bottle opener, which is a nice bonus.
I would definitely recommend this can opener to anyone looking for a reliable and easy-to-use option. It’s great for people with limited hand strength, and it’s also a great choice for my older mum.
It does the job well once the can is hooked on, however it can be really fiddly connecting the can.
Sometimes the wife gets frustrated with this and resorts to using a hand held winding version to open a can instead.
I purchased this tin opener for my 88 year old mother in law because she was struggling to use a manual tin opener. The purchase was sealed by the included opening tools which she finds very useful.
After a little instruction on how to use the opener she is very happy with it and she particularly likes the removable cutter assembly. This allows the cutter to be cleaned between tins that have contents you would not like to mix.
A lot of engineering and design time has gone into this item to make it look stylish and functional. The accessories are very well integrated into the design so they do not look like an afterthought and are easily accessible.
I have given this multifunction can opener four stars because all the functions work and it’s all great except when you open a can the magnet at the top does not hold the lid once it has detached from the can and if the contents has liquid it spills on to the side of the opener. Apart from that all the other functions work really well. I am especially impressed with the jar opener. Every time I use it I expect it not to work and it’s always proved me wrong no matter the size of the jar. Definitely my favourite function!
Bought as a gift for a friend who has trouble opening cans with older, manual can opener. It seems to be a fairly well thought out product other than just an electric can opener which is handy in itself. Seems easy enough to clean too.
Downside I found was getting the electric can opener to grip and cut open the cans. It didn’t appear to like some and paper had to be pealed away to round the top of the can get it to work. Perhaps it’s me as I always struggle getting these things to open cans unlike the missus who’s a pro at it!
Regardless of the above, it’s still a useful addition to any kitchen.
I bought this for my wife who has difficulty using one hand due to Osteoporosis. I thought this would be useful if I was not about to open cans for her. There is no doubt this is much better than the one I bought for my mother , for similar reasons, many years ago. I found it very easy to use. However, my wife remains dubious so a bit of practice is probably required. The main problem, so far, is that it is quite tall and the only cupboard shelf I have been able to find for it is too high for my wife to reach up and lift it down, which would be a two handed job, so a certain amount of New Year rearrangement seems inevitable.
I have not been a fan of Morphy Richards but they have done well with this can opener. I have used it to open the dreaded cans of tuna which hand operated and others usually struggle with.Once started the magnetic can holder holds the lid safely so little chance of being cut by sharp edges which is one of the reasons I wanted a good opener.The rubber jar opener provided is useful , the bottle top opener I will rarely use.It would have been good to have reduced the height a little as this is quite a tower to Stand on your work top and not really needed.No reason to fault this and would have given it a five star if the few changes had been made.Plenty of power so no slacking when this gets to work.
It has been well thought out with extra gadgets that us oldies definitely will find useful. The only downside is that it is not the easiest to use; when you realise HOW it works, then it becomes easy, but it is anything but intuitive. You just have to hold the can upright against the pin, then bring the lever down, until it starts, then let it do tis thing. It’s so simple, that it tends to confound the user!
It’s very well finished, the cable tidy is great, and it’s much better than the battery type that we have had before. Overall I recommend it, but with the proviso that you mustn’t try to work out how to insert the can – just hold it up to the pin, etc. I also thing it’s good value.
Really happy with this. Been struggling to open cans due to dodgy thumb tendons and just can’t use the can opener left handed, so treated myself to this electric can opener. Despite reading the instructions, it did take me a little trial and error to work out how to use this, but once you figure it out you’re off and away. I felt I needed to hold the can as I thought it would fall off (it’s suspended) but learnt that they’re ok! Doesn’t take too long. Be careful with the opened lid which has very sharp edges. The extra ‘tools’ are really useful too – the jar opener works well. Fairly easy to clean. It doesn’t look the most attractive left out on the work surface, but I’ve no where else to put it. On the whole, this is a great gadget to have
Having seen reviews on this can opener and watching the video by a customer I purchased one. It works very well and has a jar opener on the top as well as a pull out opener & cutter. I was concerned as a purchase of Amazon’s own electric can opener was a disaster it. This one works well, holds the can as well as the lid, still worry it’s going to drop the can but it hasn’t so far. It cuts a fairly jagged edge to the lid as the blade comes down onto the lid and not from the sides as most manual can openers do. It means the can is not likely to cut you, the lid might! Don’t use it if the can has a ring pull on the top, the pull out opener & cutter from the bottom has an end to use to open this type of can, you might also damage the magnetic lid holder. There is a cord storage at the back of the machine, most useful. Can highly recommend this can opener. Edit – I only realised recently I don’t need to hold the handle down once it starts cutting, just press down and release once it starts!
When I opened it with her, I was initially disappointed. It seemed to me that the bulk of it was just this huge plastic block, and I wasn’t crazy about the extras.
However I’ve been regularly checking with Mum if it works OK and have used it myself a few times, and I was completely wrong.
This product has a few additional functions – a jar opener, a ring-pull tin opener, a zip pack opener, a bottle opener, and a bottle top twister-offer(sorry for the daft name but I had to differentiate from the bottle opener somehow!).
I’ll be honest – neither me nor my mum have tried the bottle opener so I can’t comment on that one. In my experience of bottle opener’s it looks like it will work though.
I’ll cover the rest of the functions one at a time below:
1) The tin opener: There’s a bit of a knack to it otherwise it won’t work. In fairness I think you can expect that with anything mechanical involving cutting or crunching, so it’s not a bad thing – you just have to learn the knack. Here’s roughly how it works: with the handle up, you hold the tin with it’s metal lip just above the wheel and bring the handle down about 90% of it’s full range. Before you bring it down fully though you need to fold the magnetic lid-grabber(best I could do under pressure!) down so it’s in contact with the tin’s lid. Then you bring the handle fully down and the electro-mechanical mechanism kicks in and you no longer need to hold the tin – in fact yu could step away and let it do its thing until it finishes at this point. It rotates the tin while simultaneously cutting the lid. It rotates the tin just over 360 degrees until the lid is completely severed, then stops. Then, holding the tin again, you lift the handle fully up, and the lid-grabber(yes, you’ve guessed it) grabs the lid. Obviously you have to take some care removing the lid from the grabber as it may well have sharp edges – best to use a finger/thumb on the flat sides, avoiding the edge completely. Now I haven’t tried any other automated tin openers but all I can tell you is this one works like a dream.
2) The jar opener: This is that grey crescent you can see adorning the top of the tin opener. It’s made of fairly malleable rubber and very easily comes away from the tin opener’s base to be used on its own. The idea with this is “one size fits all”, so you put it around the jar to be opened and compress it with your hand until it is touching the sides of the jar. Then compress and twist. Now I really thought this would be awful but Mum assures me it’s very good for opening jars so I’m surprised.
3) The ring pull tin opener: You can see about half of this part jutting out of the bottom of the tin opener on the photo. It’s rectangular with one of its shorter sides curved into the arc of a circle, either end of which forms a flat curved hook. Now I don’t know what the official modus operandi is but this is how Mum uses it: with the rectangle stood up on the curved end, approaching the ring pull from the outside of the tin, tuck one of the flat hooks underneath the ring. Keep the opener firmly pressed down on the tin and pull it back(which amounts to rocking it like a rocking horse) until the ring lifts up slightly. Now approaching the ring the same way but from the inside of the tin , position the one of the hooks under the ring again. In the same motion as before, keep the opener firmly pressed down on the tin and rock it back until the lid starts to peel off. Keep on rocking(no pun intended!) until the whole lid is all but removed. Then you can remove it relatively easily using your finger. This seems dubious when you first try it but it always seems to work. I was stunned but just good simple design I guess.
4) The zip pack opener: this is built into the centre of the ring pull tin opener rectangle. It’s really just a slot and a blade. We only tried it on a pack of bacon so far and it worked absolutely fine but you need to hold the pack firmly and apply some force to the opener to get it going. In all honesty, if scissors were available, you’d probably use those instead. That said, it does the job it’s supposed to. Also, I know scissors can be tricky on certain kinds of zip packs so perhaps that’s where this comes into its own providing you have the strength in your hands/arms to use it.
(Update 22/02/17: I used the zip pack opener the other day! Now maybe it was an unorthodox zip pack but I have to say it struggled with it. There was card stuck to the plastic on this particular package so I had to cut through both. The card kept catching and bunching up inside th zip lock cutter. It made it very tricky and in the end I cut the rest with scissors. Also it was hard pulling the gadget with brute force down through the card and plastic. And I had a job getting the bunched up card out of the gadget afterwards. I imagine it works a lot better when it’s just plastic though, and perhaps that’s the only issue here)
5) Bottle top twister-offer: this is simply a molded indent in the plastic of the ring pull tin opener. It is designed specifically to fit the kind of plastic bottle tops you find atop pop(or soda) bottles. It works fine on those, providing a much better amount of purchase/leverage than you’d normally get with your hands. Now I’ve tried it on other bottles and as expected it doesn’t work. So perhaps if you were looking for a fault with this product that could qualify but that’s really not how I view it. I view this product as an electric tin opener, that happens to also have a few crammed in extras that might come in handy one day. To rate it down on the extras would be missing the point, and besides many of them are great anyway.
The bottle opener is also built into the ring pull tin opener rectangle. I think this was the source of my original disgust – the jar opener looked like a cop-out solution to a problem at first glance and all the remaining extras were built into one small chunk of plastic. I expected more somehow. *** Yet *** practical usage has proven that all of them (bar the bottle opener which remains unused) do the job they were designed to do. So I think some clever, simple, and compact design went into this and its usability belies its appearance.
The plastic base is pretty solid as seem most of the parts. In particular the base’s pyramidesque profile means it’s fairly stable. The handle/blade/lid-grabber assembly can be very easily removed from the base for cleaning purposes, or maybe oiling, by holding a purpose-built spring-loaded catch to one side and just pulling it off. I’ve removed it and put it back a few times – a tiny knack to putting it back but really easy to deduce.
So this was a real pleasant surprise in the end. I really can’t fault it(cue massive comedy explosion, melted plastic, beans all over kitchen, parts everywhere…d’oh).
OK so we haven’t tried the bottle opener – but it’s a bottle opener people. There are no mechanical parts. We’ve been making them since at least the Victorian era. So I’m going to make the leap of faith that the boys down in the Morphy Richards underground lab complex have pulled it off(no pun intended again!).