Most spoons can do neither.
Yeah, I’ve been trying to figure out how one opens a can with a spoon.
Maybe if it was one of those cans with a pull tab on it.
I Googled it, apparently it can be done but it doesn’t look easy.
Good grief, you’re right.
I’ll use the canopener on my Swiss army knife if the situation comes up, thanks. (That’s not easy either, I’ve done it, though not recently. But it’s got to be easier than working at it with a spoon till the lid gives up.)
It’s not that bad, but yeah, not as easy as using a rotary can opener.
Which is why there is always a P-38 in the camp kit along with an OXO manual can opener. Although we try to either bring stuff with pull-tab tops or repackage pre-trip.
The P51 is somewhat superior- they are still issued in fact.
A Swiss Army knife can opener is more work than a new, sharp rotary can opener. But I’ve been in situations where there were multiple rotary can openers available in the kitchen, but they were all so old and dull that the tool on my pocketknife was the easier solution.
I’m a fan of the safety can openers that don’t produce a sharp lid, but it’s disappointing how quickly they become dull.
I hope that you threw them away instead of leaving them for the next victim.
The next victim might not have a pocketknife. I suspect even the ancient can openers were better than a spoon.
Give that kitchen a nice new can opener, maybe? The hand ones aren’t that expensive.
The kitchen in question was at my church, and the next time a can opener got donated to the church rummage sale, it went straight to the kitchen instead of being put out on the Housewares table. Which was probably how the previous can openers got there, too, but that was before my time.
I think they marketed a version that had an actual repellent added, for a while.
No clue what that repellant was, but it was a step up from regular SSS. They could not have marketed it thus, otherwise.
I had to Google this to find out you weren’t making a reference to the P51 Mustang aircraft which, although in fact superior, seems it would destroy the cans.
Spoons are dull. Can openers, including the one on your Swiss army knife and that 19th-century tin opener in your kitchen drawer, are sharp, so guess which kind is more likely to open a tin like magic. Unless they are not sharp, in which case they won’t work so well.
It is Picardin that Avon adds to their Skin-So-Soft insect repellent, as reported in @DrDeth’s post #117 above. Consumer Reports was not impressed.
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If you’re camping, bored, and have access to the right rocks, this can change. If you plan ahead you can fix the dull spoon problem in the garage with your electric grinder.
You pack a first aid kit, right?
Heh. I have a large barbecue spatula that is so thick that I had to bevel the edge before I could get burgers off the grill with it. Now it would probably serve as a makeshift machete.
Aren’t spoons commonly used to create makeshift shivs in prison? Seems like that skill would translate to camping…