A can opener is a stape but if you’ve struggled ... you’d like to admit trying to lift the lid of your baked beans tin (and been left with cut hands and only a semi-opened can with beans ...

Start by taking a full tin can. Using a tin opener, begin removing the lid, but stop when the lid is just over halfway off. Carefully bend the lid out using a knife and empty the contents.

This Bully Beef can opener dates back to the First World War when soldiers fighting in the trenches in France would have used the device to open tins of food. It's a hard-wearing object and is ...