I bought this more expensive electric can opener only about a month ago and now I just want to give it away to some unsuspecting person on Freecycle. It's a piece of garbage that can't open a can in just one cut. Try ten cuts and you may get the can opened enough to pry into it and scoop out the contents. It can't grab the can. The lever with the blade keeps falling off and you have to hold the lever 'just right' to get it to contact the slippery black button switch that runs the motor.

I should have just flushed the 40 bucks down the toilet. I'm back to using my cheap hand held from the grocery store and that thing opens every can perfectly the first time.

Cuisinart= Crap.