What’s going on everybody? This is James White with Freakin Reviews bringing
you As Seen on TV product reviews, gadget reviews, and more. Now if you like what you see in this video,
please consider subscribing for more videos like this. Now today I’ve got five automatic hands-free
can openers ranging in price from $11 up to $30. Is there really much of a difference? Let’s find out in today’s comparison. So here are the contenders. We’ve got the Handy Can, the Toucan, the
Tornado F4, Instecho I think it’s pronounced, and the Kitchen Mama Yes You Can. In order from cheapest to most expensive,
first up we’ve got the hands-free Handy Can. Ironically, it allows you to open up cans
easily but you can’t open the packaging easily. Pretty basic. Next up it’s the As Seen on TV Toucan. Well it’s already easier to open so I give
them credit for that one. This one is by BulbHead which is probably
the biggest As Seen on TV company out there. It takes four AA batteries not included. I think they all have no batteries included
so I’m not picking on the Toucan. I just like saying that. Another As Seen on TV offering is the Tornado
F4. Maybe they’ll come out with a Tornado F5
that can open this packaging. Alright it seems a little bit smaller than
the first two I opened. This one takes three AA batteries. Not included also. A popular choice on Amazon is the Instecho. Glancing over these instructions, I don’t
even know how many batteries this takes. I’ll have to figure that out when I crack
it open. And finally it’s the Kitchen Mama Yes You
Can. The most expensive model. Is it that much better than the rest? Let’s find out. It’s the only one with shrink wrap. I wonder if that sets it apart from the others
because it’s shrink wrapped. A little bit of smashed packaging. I’m not happy about that. Come on guys. Nah just kidding. Here we go. The color is interesting. It’s kind of an off, almost a pinkish red. I mean they all have a very similar design
to them. Now I have a good idea how many batteries
I have to go get, let me go get some batteries and start opening. Handy Can Opener, Toucan, Tornado F4, Instecho,
and the Kitchen Mama. As I’m filming this, I’m not going to
show every can being opened the entire duration but I’ll put up here I’ll put a time on
how long it actually took for the can to be opened. Just so you have an idea how long each one
is taking. Otherwise it would be about a 45-minute video
of mostly cans being opened and you don’t really want to see that. Some of you may remember my manual can opener
comparison which I picked this Kitchen Aid as the best one. You might want to check that out if you haven’t
seen it yet. But these are different types of can openers. These are all automatic, hands-free one-touch
can openers. Place on top of the can and it does the rest. Prices range from $11 to $30. Let’s see how much of a difference there
really is. First up at $10.62, it is the As Seen on TV
Handy Can. Now as with my manual can opener comparison,
I’m doing four cans of different sizes. Let’s get started with the smallest of these
cans, some jalapenos. Ok that’s good. Oh it’s still going. Oh it’s still going. It’s still going. It won’t stop. Ok. I didn’t stop on its own but it did work. It smells like jalapenos in here. And the edge is smooth so I think
first test we’re off to a good start here. Alright next up with the Handy Can, let’s
try some green beans. Let’s see how fast we can get this going
here. Some crackling noises. Is it going to stop? It stopped. Well the magnet did a pretty good job of grabbing
the lid so that’s a good thing. This one is pretty easy to align on there,
I will say that. It’s not the smoothest thing in the world. You can see it’s kind of jostling around
as it turns but it is working. Alright the magnet didn’t pick this one
up but it did open the can, so we’re in good shape with that. Finally the big boy here, this 4-inch can. There’s that crackling sound again. Oh look at it shimmying. It’s working. And it turns off. The magnet doesn’t seem to work every time. I think that the $10.62 Handy Can, it’s
kind of a good standard to set for the rest of these can openers. Let’s see how the next one does. Alright next let’s try the As Seen on TV
Toucan. This one was advertised quite a few years
ago. It’s still available. This one does not have an auto-stop. It says push to start and push to stop. So you’ve got to monitor this one. Oh the magnet worked. The magnet worked, there it goes. Go with a standard-size can of some green
beans right here. I want no failures from Toucan. It has this clicking sound when it first starts. See if this magnet will work. The magnet is not doing so great. It actually still cut it though. Usually I get these comparisons and I get
one that really fails badly. And the first one and a half is going pretty
well. I’m kind of happy about that. The cheap ones are bringing their A-game to
this comparison. The tension mounts. Not really. Let’s see what we’ve got here now. The magnet worked on this one. I think that we’re really off to a good
start with these hands-free can openers. I’m a little bit shocked. See if it can handle one of the big boys here. No magnet for this one. The magnet is not an issue. Let’s see how this opens. Alright well look at this. Look at this. Man these things are really slaying it today. So far the two cheap ones have come with their
A-game. Let’s try the Tornado F4. Can it hang with the models that are half
the cost? OK well I would say this one is quieter than
the other two. It doesn’t seem like it’s flopping around
quite as much. It’s going pretty smoothly. Also sounds like it’s struggling with it,
too. It just finished. Alright, good. And the somewhat weak magnet did work. It worked. Again, I put brand new batteries in all of
these. They’re all Duracell batteries and it seemed
like this one was struggling a little bit. Come on, make it worth 20 bucks. Make it worth 20 bucks for me. And by the way, I paid for all these myself. These weren’t sent to me by Amazon vendors
trying to pump their products. I went down and found five that I thought were
good to compare, so I forked out about 90 bucks for these hands-free can openers. So you can get the best one without having
to worry about which is the best deal. We are on a roll with these. I have not had one major failure yet. Not that I want any of them to fail, but it
makes it difficult to find what the best deal is when they’re all working well. But then you factor in the cost and you might
have something. Can of tuna. This one has almost a violent stop to it. It just says, “Done! That’s right. Eat your tuna.” Alright well all I’ve got to say is that
I have a lot of food to eat later. That’s what I’ve got to say. This one seems to be taking a little bit longer
than the others. Seems like it’s a little bit grindy on the
motor, too. I’m going to go wash my car and come back. There we go. That took a long time but let’s see if it
worked. And here we go. Alright well I think that the Tornado F4 was…
it worked but it seemed a little bit weaker and slower than the others and this one was
20 bucks. So I don’t know. We’ve got more to test out, though. The other $20 offering is the Instecho automatic
can opener. Let’s try that one next. Look at it shimmy again. It’s like a little bug shimmying back and
forth. Oh I’ve got juice dripping. I’ve got juice dripping. It’s supposed to be auto-stop but it ain’t
auto-stopping. That’s not auto-stopping. Alright well it auto-stopped a little bit
late but we’ve got a lot of juice spilled out here. It did work. Let’s try a can of green beans. Once again we’ve got shimmying going on. Oh it keeps going. Oh it’s still going. It doesn’t know when to stop. It’s chaos in here. Nah it’s not chaos. It’s working, though. Next up, a can of tuna. For some reason it seems like it’s having
an easier time with this one than some of the other ones. But let’s see if it shuts off. It’s been having a problem with shutting
off. It’s still going. Yeah it keeps… it likes to keep going, but
it is working at the same time, though. And finally the big old boy here. The 4-inch can of beans. Can it do it in one pass? The instructions say two presses of the button
for a 4-inch can. Let’s see. There’s something very bug-like about this
one, the way it shakes around. And? Ok let’s see. Did it go all the way around? It did go all the way around. I didn’t need two presses of the button. The instructions were wrong. Alright I think that, you know, we’ll just
keep moving. I’ll talk about this later. I’ve got one more to go, and that’s the
Kitchen Mama Yes You Can. So let’s see if the $30 price tag makes
this better than the others that performed pretty well for a third of the cost. First up, jalapenos. This one shimmys also like the others do but
it sounds more powerful. I feel like it should have stopped already. Pretty sure it should have stopped already. I guess it’s going for two passes, huh? It’s not stopping. Ok well, it did work. It just didn’t stop when it was supposed
to. Next up, can of green beans. OK. This part is easy for me. I just get to be the peanut gallery and chime
in whenever I feel like it. Alright this one… Alright it redeemed itself. This one stopped when it was supposed to. So maybe that small can just threw it off
a little bit. All these can openers by the way have the
smooth… OK well maybe I shouldn’t have done that
but they show it on a balloon and I just cut my finger on it. So I guess they’re not smooth edge can openers
anyway. I’ll be right back guys. Alright time for some tuna fish. I’m kind of over this now. There’s a smell of jalapenos, beans, and
tuna in here that’s not really a very appealing smell. The anticipation is killing me. And it should stop right here. It did. Only about half the time these magnets worked
it seems like. On any of them. Not just this one. The lid kind of gets wedged in there, but
so far I haven’t had really a failure yet. I don’t think I’ve ever had a comparison
video where all the products worked for everything. So I’m kind of happy in that respect. I’m not happy that I’ve got a cut finger
though. Here we go. Yes you can! Yes you can! These big cans take a little bit, don’t
they? They’re a little bit time-consuming. Alright it stopped when it was supposed to. And it worked. Alright. The good news is that I just opened 20 cans
and I didn’t have any failures. The bad news is that I have to try to pick
an order for these. But I think I’ve got a pretty good order
picked out right now because it’s not just function but it’s also value as well. Alright so how do I rank these because they
all kind of performed almost equally? I’ll start by saying that this is the first
time I’ve done a comparison where the final results were so close. But if I have to rank them, here’s the reason
I choose this particular ranking. Number 5, the Tornado F4. The auto-stop worked pretty well but this
one, the motor seemed pretty weak and for some reason it seemed like it was struggling
and it seemed like it was kind of slow. So I worry about the motor on this one lasting
long term and it sounds like it might chew through batteries as well, so I think the
Tornado F4 is number 5 in this comparison. Number 4, I’m going to do the Instecho. This one, it was 20 bucks, the auto-stop was
a little bit iffy. For some reason, I don’t know if it was
bouncing around more, but this one seemed like a lot of the cans I was getting juice
dripping around the edges, so I think the Instecho is certainly toward the bottom of
the list. Number 3 is the As Seen on TV Toucan. It takes 4 batteries. It is the second-cheapest but it doesn’t
have the auto-shut off, it’s the loudest, and it’s the bulkiest of them so I just
think that this one just didn’t really impress me as much as some of the others did. Number 2, it’s the Yes You Can by Kitchen
Mama. It worked pretty well actually I could tell
the motor is pretty powerful and it was pretty effective, however it didn’t always auto-stop
when it was supposed to, and it is the most expensive at 30 bucks. So to me the Kitchen Mama Yes You Can is number
2. And that leaves the shocking under-my-radar
Handy Can, which to me at the cheapest it performed about as well as all the others. It’s probably the best deal. The magnet worked on a few of the cans, the
auto-stop didn’t work once but it worked the rest of the time. I just think that for the price, the Handy
Can is probably the best deal. Have you guys used any hands-free can openers
like these? Tell me what you think in the comments below. Please follow my social profiles for progress
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