So you have all this canned food......how ya going to open it?

[Echo2]

We have a few of the "Pampered Chef" side cutting can openers. I like them so much I gave them away as Christmas gifts a couple years ago.

https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBrRhVms_aG0X9u0Dnbb_wK_1H1mYli OsykKalqNAa_P5-r_NNaw

At the BOL....we have a large commercial opener....similar to this...

http://www.crosbys.co.uk/images/products/medium/1268909712-77871200.jpg

and I bought about 120 of these at a gunshow....

https://www.galaxyarmynavy.com/prodimages/large/9937box.jpg.

I do pic up good ones at yard sales.....got about 5 or 6 set back.

What do you use....and what do you have for a backup?

BTW....my obsession with having a can opener was developed on a 4 day hunting trip with a bunch of canned food....and not a can opener among us. But I can open a can with a knife fairly well now....:)

[eagle326]

I carry my P-38 from Vietnam on my key ring and have a stock of them for hard times. They have many ; many uses. :D

[bacpacker]

We have 3 in the kitchen, 2 in the camper, p-38's or p-51's in most all our bags, vehicles, etc. I hadn't gave any thought to the commercial models. I'll have to pick up 1 or 2 of them.

[IDTANDY]

The rat f...Still have mine from the first rations I opened.
Back in the day I re-set points in a distributer with my P38 and nothing else,made a nice tool.

[Katrina]

I carry my dad's P-38 with me on my key ring and the carabiner has a knife built in it.

[ladyhk13]

I have a side opener from Williams Sonoma(?) and love it. I also still have my P38 from basic training which is a nice heavy duty metal not that crappy tin that they are selling these days :) Ya'll with those old ones know what I'm talking about!

[JustAPrepper]

We have several hand openers and a handful of the little P-thingy's. <<<Not sure what number ours is and I've never used them. Might should probably do that sometime soon!

[Echo2]

What I like about the side openers...is the can then can be used as a storage vessel for the unused amount....for a while any ways.

This is a rare occurrence in my house due to the almost 13 yr old and almost 11 yr old boys.

[Taz Baby]

we have these
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4910887738213634&id=38c057975a4705ca665df2dfcff25f7d
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4593347928785130&id=b3c535e6a3337ae5a411142da43c431e

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=5012364898731514&id=994fb5f122bc2623be8da2e9656b4cdb
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4667126892922365&id=871ffbe3120747474b84ec731923f424
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4686050519679653&id=63d61d43c514fe55b48fb03353d8f17e

and of course the trusted knife if all else fails. I think we are good

[Gunfixr]

Well, I guess if I got desperate, I could use a knife.
However, we have a commercial scissors type opener we use all the time (no longer even own an electric opener), and I have a small pile of real (not cheap commercial copies) P38s and some P51s.
There's one on my keyring that's been there since about 1984, and it still opens as good as it ever did.

Come to think of it, I've got several of those ammo spam can openers, although I've never tried them on a regular can.
I'll have to do that.
Maybe this weekend.
My wife and daughter are going to a neighboring state with her mother for the weekend, it'll just be me and my 20yr old son, "batching it".
It'll be a good time for the spam can opener to be in the kitchen.