The best can opener in the world won’t help if you forgot to bring it. Here’s what to do instead.
, cooking at home or in someone else’s kitchen and dinner is planned out. You’ve picked up the necessary ingredients, including some canned goods, which are essential to your meal.
“You could be as prepared as you want, but something always can happen. And that’s OK,” says Adam Witt, private chef and food blogger atWitt says that even the most experienced chefs to run into snags along the way and that not having a can opener on-hand, no matter what the reason, is common. “I have run into this before, specificallyFortunately, if you find yourself in an all-out can-opener jam, hope is not lost.
“You poke that knife in, give it a tap, and then you just work the knife sort of around the rim of the can and get the lid off,” said Witt. Continue until you’ve punctured the can, then move slightly over and do the same again until you’ve enlarged the hole.