Amco Swing-A-Way 6090 Easy Crank Can Opener

by Amco

Product Features

• Long handle and large crank eliminate stress on your hand
• Soft rubber grips for comfort and security
• Durable metal construction
• 5-year warranty

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001CD77VO
• Item model number: 6090
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,393 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #15 in Kitchen & Dining > Kitchen Utensils & Gadgets > Can Openers

Product Description

The swing-a-way easy crank can opener from amco features longer handles and a large turning crank, eliminating stress on your hand whether opening one can or 100. The soft rubber coating on handles and crank make the can opener comfortable to hold. Swing-a-way products have been offering quality, reliability and value to consumers since 1938. The swing-a-way easy crank can opener comes with a five-year guarantee.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Can Opener of Them All, December 15, 2008

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C. Mitchell (West Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amco Swing-A-Way 6090 Easy Crank Can Opener (Kitchen)

I have stronger German and Swiss can openers, but this is my favorite. It is the same 1932 design as the Swing-A-Way wall-mount long-arm can opener which was screwed to the wall in everyone's Grandmothers' kitchen.

We do a LOT of cooking and, these days, that involves a LOT of different sizes of cans, including the huge 3 to 10 lb tomato cans (pack, juice or sauce bases). This long arm crank opener makes them fly open. With small cans (tomato paste, olives, vegetables), you have to open the can next to the edge of a counter or chef's table to provide clearance to that long-arm crank handle. Once you get used to that, you never reach for any of those beautifully engineered, wonderfully designed and remarkable $25-$40 German and Swiss can openers -- even the best Kuhn Rikons which leave a clean top rim.

My wife and my mother both suffer from arthritis affecting thumb and fingers, so I tried this opener for them, but I got addicted to it's virtues myself. Now, I buy this opener for every gift recipient who has arthritis.

Cleaning advice from the 1960's: To keep this can opener clean, fold a piece of paper towel to quarters and clamp it into the geared jaws of this can opener. Then wind it through the opener with a couple of cramks of the handle. This action will pick up any residue in the mechanism without having to dunk the can opener in dish water for a mere vegetable can. If you are opening a can of meats, fish or rancidable fats (most soups), you should wind paper towel through first, then whisk it in clean, soapy dish water, then immediately rinse it, then wipe it dry and then immediately wind another piece of paper towel through the opener to get that last residue of water out. Now, it will last about five or six decades without any risk of corrosion.

Store this opener on your main can shelf or on a hook or strong magnet on the inside of the pantry cabinet door so that you can grab it and the can in one motion. Life does not have to be complicated. Simple is GREAT!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It really works!, April 14, 2009

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CenVillager "cenvillager" (Pembroke Pines, FL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Amco Swing-A-Way 6090 Easy Crank Can Opener (Kitchen)

Permit me to add my voice to the favorable comments above. Before my can opener was delivered I wondered if perhaps it would not be quite as good as others have said.

It is that good.

It is a pleasure to use. Now my wife and I do rock-paper-scissors to see whose turn it is to open the next can.

I intend to buy more openers and use them as Christmas gifts for older friends and relatives. I'm sure I will get weird looks when they open the gifts, but after trying them out, I know they will be delighted and appreciate my perspicacity.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sure beats the electric can opener!, March 20, 2009

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Wayne Michael "likesowls" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Amco Swing-A-Way 6090 Easy Crank Can Opener (Kitchen)

We do a lot of cooking and freeze it for weekday meals and have noticed how poorly electric can openers work on large cans. A friend of ours mentioned that this opener would be far better and easier and she was right!!
While I will keep the electric can opener for now, it is going in the cabinet purgatory in favor of this can opener which is so easy to operate and takes far less counter space.