One Touch Can Opener Crap

Gizmos and Gadgets                      ONE TOUCH CRAP A few months ago I noticed a pain in my right wrist tendons, just below the meaty part of the hand.  Of course I just ignore pain and carried on.  Of a sudden though, it began to affect my ability to do the one-hand iron skillet pancake flip.  I began to pay attention.  Bingo!  While opening a can with my side can opener (pictured), which idea I love because the lid pops right back on for short term storage of unused sauce, the pain was quite exaggerated.  It seems my hand is ill-suited to this design,  causing unusual tendon twisting, or whatever. After much deliberation, and reading numerous Amazon user testimony on various electric openers, I popped for the "One Touch,"  around $30 (two AA batteries not included).  The first time I tried to open a can was a circus. Only way I could get it to work was to hold the can upside down and hand turn the can, which caused all the juices to leak out.  WTF?  The directions are printed on a fold-over 3x3 inch paper that contain instructions in 96 languages.  I couldn't read them, so I went to You Tube, which video I posted above. Small wonder I couldn't figure out how to use it.  It's absolutely counter-intuitive to my can opening experiences.  It's magical.  I called MoSup in and said, watch this.  She watched me open a can of tuna and said "It's slow"  She is unimpressed with gadgetry. I may have put some old batteries in, but,  like who cares?  You're cooking, just start opening your can and do something else for the 30 seconds.  Which is what I did last night with a can of Chinese vegetables.   That's right,  The sumbitch jammed so badly that I - and I'm not kidding - I used the meat cleaver to chop the bastid open enough to get the veggies.  This morning I tried to free it, but even with the use of pliers I'm unable to unjam the thing.  I feel better now.  People will see this story and that Japanese outfit will be bankrupt before year end.  December 7th baby!.

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Gizmos that don't work  Sorry, you'll just have to keep washing your left hand I was tempted to purchase the Woot Deals Sanitizing Wand.  Fortunaately I decise3d to sheck up on it and found this samplong from Amazon The UVC intensity in this Verilux design is so low that for you to truly destroy any microorganisms on a surface you will have to keep it on the surface shining in one spot for over 30 minutes. It does not kill on contact, the intensity of UVC light is too low. In addition, the more you use it, the less UVC is emitted and the bulbs will have to be replaced annually. For you to truly destroy ALL micro organisms (virus, bacteria, mold) on just a pillow surface, you will have to hold the Verilux at every square inch of the pillow for 30 mins at a time. Thus, you would be standing, holding this unit for probably 4-6 hours to truly clean your pillow. You know what's easier, steam cleaning or taking the laundry and washing it. Or using a UVC system design for air treatment installed in your Air Conditioning System. Marketing over hypes the science behind UVC and leads customers to believe in products they shouldn't. This puts a bad name on the UVC products that actually perform, but are priced over $600. I wouldn't waste money on this product or any handheld UVC product. You're welcome

Trash Stuff

Gizmos    Talking Trash Here Boss So, here I am, early (very early) Saturday morning, doing a little cleaning (rearranging trash) in anticipation of MoSup's return later today.  Of course you know what happened. That's right, the friggen trash compactor crapped out.  I'm hoping someone has an idea, because I Googled till the cows came home and  nobody, evidently, has had this happen before.   Started to compact Stopped making normal compact noise, but went into sounding like the gear is  just spinning but nothing is moving. I turn it off, but can't open it to see what's going on. Normally I would just pull it out and have access, but we had the kitchen remodeled and it appears the sumbitches built it IN  as if to stop al-Qaeda from breaching it's walls! I think this is going to take a professional TC guy, but I thought I'd ask.

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