[Madame Cholet]

my lodger just showed me a can of chick peas and asked me how to open them. Yes I still have a tin opener I was surprised she is 34. maybe its a Turkish thing.

[snowdrops]

  ,yes I've got one still.

[mumofstig]

,yes I've got one still.

and me. You really can't cook without being able to open tins, can you?

[Madame Cholet]

most of them have ring pulls now except marmade

[plum crumble]

I have noticed that L*dl has lots of cans which need openers, as do the cheaper ranges of canned veg in *sda. more of them than ever actually - which suggests a lot more foreign imports methinks

[Madame Cholet]

yes I think it was from Aldi. mind there even cheaper if you buy dried ones.

[mumofstig]

most of them have ring pulls now except marmade

Dunno about that - the budget range of kidney beans, chick peas etc that I buy all need the tin opener 

[Fairy Plotmother]

Surely everyone has a tin opener ....it's an essential kitchen tool. 

[plum crumble]

hmm, methinks the younger microwave generation may not know how to cook enough to ever need to open anything but a can of beans (which tend to come with ring-pulls)

whooaaa - what a sweeping generalisation from moi! Turning into a right curmudgeon aren't I?? 

[Madame Cholet]

Surely everyone has a tin opener ....it's an essential kitchen tool. 

She was amazed by it so maybe not

[mumofstig]

is she perhaps used to the ones that are fixed to the wall?

[Madame Cholet]

I'll have to ask i'm intrigued now.

[LotuSeed]

The problem with the tins that have ring/tabs for opening them is that inevitably, at some point, they break   

I use my "can opener" all the time but not for opening tins. I use the bottle opener part on it to remove the lids from the foods I can/bottle. I can't imagine someone not knowing what a tin opener is  ...

*Unless you're talking about the really old school type which is essentially just a blade.  I've never used one that doesn't have rolling gears, so I'd be at a complete loss as to how to actually use one of those.
 

[sunshineband]

most of them have ring pulls now except marmade

Dunno about that - the budget range of kidney beans, chick peas etc that I buy all need the tin opener

The only tins I have had with ring pulls were the slightly dearer tinned tomatoes that Mr Sunny bought, rather than our usual ones.

Maybe I just buy budget lines in everything then 

[Madame Cholet]

mines the type where you pinch the legs together and turn the handle.