Opening a Can (and a Bottle)

Cougar Allen said:
... you can pry the cap off a beer bottle with the point of any knife you have handy.
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Pics please? Or video? I think this is how Pap bust the tip off of his Buck 110. And I'm pretty sure a number of manufacturers on this forum would refuse to warranty a knife used in such fashion (the word "pry" seems to curdle blood around here).

Anyway, pics/video please :)
 
So you are telling me that I don't need titanium, super steel, 1/4" bar stock and several pages of raw material specs to open a can?
 
Been using the same P-38 since 1978. Still going strong (certainly shows less wear and tear than the owner).
 
Great demo Coug, been openin' cans the same way since I was a kid, more times than not, I had a blade over a can opener back then, no knives were ever harmed in the process.
 
I had a few knives just like those when I was a kid ,really thin tip like a dollar bill folded twice ;plenty thick enough to open a can. I sometimes feel silly with my Busse in a sheath nearby using a P38 .I never did snap the tip off one of those and ......I used to throw them sometimes...:( stupid kid!!
 
Perhaps a better demonstration of technique rather than material capability. I have known many to ruin pocket knives attempting to cut/pry open cans. They clearly did not have the understanding of the OP.

I still use the SAK opener and it works great! People still stare in awe as though it were a magic trick! Nope, just simple tool and some practice.
 
You can open a can of food by placing the top of the can against a cement wall and spinning the can while applying pressure. Keep this up until you see liquid leaking out. Why use a knife, even if it won't harm the blade at all.
 
The really impressive one I saw was in the chiopping competition them beheading or even splitting cans top to bottom, and they were cleanly cut rather than smushed... :) Thats "cool". :) Been opening cans this way with a SAK or similar for most of my life.
 
GrinderMcgee said:
Perhaps a better demonstration of technique rather than material capability. I have known many to ruin pocket knives attempting to cut/pry open cans. They clearly did not have the understanding of the OP.
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There isn't any trick to it that I'm aware of. It wasn't any more difficult the first time I did it, when I was a kid. It's hard to imagine how you could ruin a knife.... :confused:

I still use the SAK opener and it works great! People still stare in awe as though it were a magic trick! Nope, just simple tool and some practice.
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The SAK opener does a neater job. That actually does require some technique -- I remember having a little difficulty figuring out how to use it.
 
habaz72 said:
You can open a can of food by placing the top of the can against a cement wall and spinning the can while applying pressure. Keep this up until you see liquid leaking out. Why use a knife, even if it won't harm the blade at all.
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Iron in your diet is a good thing, in moderation, but the filings you're going to be adding to your food are not bio-available iron. It will pass through your body and do you no harm, but ... speaking for myself, I'd just as soon not have steel filings in my food.
 
I have seen my Father do this, he told me about it a few years ago. Us youngsters have just been spoiled by modern gadgets.
 
I still want to see that blade (or another, any blade really) open a bottle of beer without destroying the bottle.
 
There ain't no pleasin' some folks.... Next I suppose you'll want me to prove a knife can whittle a stick. :grumpy:

I enlisted a lady friend to do the photography. She insisted on demonstrating the proper way to open a bottle with a yellow-handle fishknife:
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But sometimes you don't have a knife with a proper bottle opener. So you just stick the point of a knife in under the cap, pry it out a little, and do it again, and again, and pretty soon the cap comes off.
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Then the cap popped off and a few drops of malt beverage got scattered around.
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We failed to capture the moment the cap flew off, so we tried to fake it by balancing the cap on the knife while we took a picture.
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That looks pretty fake. :thumbdn:


So we tried again, lifting the cap just a little above the bottle.
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That looks pretty fake, too. Oh well. :thumbdn:


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