Product Description

Cuisinart® continues its commitment to superior quality and innovation with our new state-of-the-art electric can opener. Designed to handle any size can, its heavy-duty body won't slip or slide. The detachable arm offers easy cleaning and the exterior housing simply wipes clean with a damp cloth. Complete with a power pierce blade, the Cuisinart® Can Opener delivers high performance and great satisfaction. The electric can opener by Cuisinart® comes with a three year limited warranty.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3176 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: Brushed Chrome
• Brand: Cuisinart
• Model: CCO-40BC
• Dimensions: 5.30" h x 5.70" w x 10.30" l, 2.60 pounds

Features

• Easy-to-use electric can opener with one-touch operation
• Handles any standard size can
• Power Pierce¿ blade; magnetic removable lid holder
• Contemporary brushed chrome finish
• 3-year limited warranty

Amazon.com Review
An electric can opener is a welcome convenience in most home kitchens and is indispensable to cooks with arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome. This easy-to-operate version from Cuisinart sports a contemporary brushed chrome finish, making it a more elegant-looking appliance than the electric can openers of yesteryear. At 7-1/2 inches from arm to base, this tool handles containers of many different sizes, from tuna fish tins to large cans of tomatoes. The powerful and sharp blade pierces and cuts lids, ensuring that cans open on the first try. The magnetic lid holder and guiding posts secure cans so they don't tip while the opener is running and aren't released prematurely. The arm is removable for thorough cleaning and the rest of the unit wipes clean easily. Cuisinart backs this can opener with a three-year limited warranty. --Cristina Vaamonde

Customer Reviews

The simple made needlessly complex
Given that the purpose of a can opener is to open cans, it's astonishing to me how difficult it is to fit any can into the cuisinart so that the blade actually penetrates the can lid.

What you end up with, repeatedly, is a can firmly clamped into place by the magnet and spinning around merrily without the lid being cut open. At all. There's really nothing in the design that gives you a clue where to hold the can to remedy this reticence on the part of the cuisinart to fulfill its calling. You put the can under the blade and the magnet, push down until it clamps, and watch the can whirl aimlessly. The can opener is plastic, so I doubt you could use it to smash open a metal can.

I can't imagine that such a basic flaw in function could have passed unnoticed through any semblance of product testing.

So what you have is a fairly attractive, vaguely art deco (it looks streamlined) electric humming machine that might, on occasion, deign to separate a can lid from the can proper, with some judicious coaxing.

Don't bother
I mistakenly depended on the Cuisinart name to offer a good to high quality can opener.

Ditto on all of the previously mentioned problems. I could have lived with the splashing of the can's contents after the abrupt end of it's opening, but the re-positioning it time and time again just to get it to connect correctly in order to open a can is ridiculous. Most times, it begins turning around the can, and you're thinking it's your lucky day!....just to find out that it never made the actual cut into the can!

I bought a .99 hand can opener last week as back-up, just to be sure I wouldn't be stranded on Thanksgiving day without the ability to open a can, should this one have decided not to work at all!

Funny, I own cheapie can-openers in the past that worked for many years. Make your life easier and don't waste your time, money on this one. The search for a good one continues :)

Agree with the negative reviewers...
I agree with the negative reviewers. This can opener is not worth the money, just for the name. Cheaply made and useless.