MIU CanDo Safety Can Opener, Plastic and Stainless Steel

Comment: I bought this can opener solely for the purpose to take the lid off of a Heineken 24 oz can for a light weight backpacking cooking pot. You don't even need to modify the can opener in order for it to fit on the pot! cuts awesome works like a charm. Feels kind of cheaply made but be careful with her and she'll treat ya good.

I also took a dremel tool and a rough sand paper attachment and sanded it down so it can fit on all regular can items now. ( pepsi, energy drinks, coke, etc)

Good luck safe camping!

Comment: We were really happy with this can opener at first. Really easy to use, very smooth cuts..
but after a few months it got really rusty and stopped cutting deeply enough to open the can.
We're very annoyed and will have to buy a different one. Never will we buy MIU products again.

Comment: Others have noticed this too: this is a very, very nice can opener, suave and sophisticated, elegant in its simplicity, and then it stops working.

I returned the first one, which quit working after a month or two, and was sent a replacement for free. This also quit working after a month or two, but apparently my window for return has expired. If only this was one of those old-fashioned openers that could also open bottles--as it is, its only use is as a toy for my one-year old daughter. I don't think I'll be buying from this manufacturer again.

Comment: It's a great opener when it works - the smooth edge means a spatula doesn't get cut up when scraping the can, and the lid makes a neat cover. However, like almost all of these, mine became a "Can't-Do" opener after a few months. I emailed MIU (admin (at) miufrance (dot) com), and they immediately replied that they'd replace the opener, that I didn't have to mail the old one back (just email a photo), and I'd only have to pay for shipping the new one. Since I didn't have to give back the old one so it didn't matter if I dinged it, I decided to see if I could find why it didn't work.

Since I had another new, unused one (it was going to be a gift, but when mine started to fail, I gave something else), I could compare the two. The only difference seemed to be that the old one had a little more distance (about 0.1mm) between the grip wheel and the plastic body when the knob was turned to engage the rotary cam that draws the wheel toward the body. Since this is what pinches the can rim between the grip wheel and the cutter, a small difference in standoff could result in inadequate depth of cut.

I took mine apart by removing the cap on the knob and removing the pin inside that holds the knob on the shaft, then pushing the shaft end to open up space between the grip wheel and the body (see blue arrows in the photo, if it posted). That let me see a little bit of black greasy gunk around the shaft and the inside face of the grip wheel, so I cleaned that off the wheel, shaft and plastic body, then reassembled it. After that, it worked perfectly again. Now that I know that, I think it could be cleaned without disassembly by rotating the knob backwards half a turn to back off the cam and make some space between the grip wheel and the body, then using a bit of cardboard to clean it all around.

We'll see how long it lasts, and if cleaning restores it next time. Since I'd have to pay for shipping to get another from MIU (I don't need three!), and they all seem to work and fail the same way, I told them "no, thanks" on the replacement, and what I'd found.

Comment: Over the course of a few months I opened less then 2 dozen cans before it would not work anymore. Do the math; I do not own a cat, but if that were cans of cat food the prorated cost of the opener would have cost as much per can as the cat food!

There is a good explanation as to why all the ratings for this can opener are either 1 star or 5. That is because people love this can opener when they first get it. Too many people are too anxious to write an immediate review. They try out the product one time and based on that they immediately post a nice review and rate product 5 stars. Read the 1-star reviews before you buy this product and you will see that these are the people who owned this for at least a month or two.

Do not throw your money away on this piece of junk.