Do you typically open cans with the hand that you write with?

For example you write with your left hand and open the top of the can with your left hand.

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ccunning@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (11 replies)

With a manual can opener I use both hands, but my dominant hand turns the crank.

Euphorazine@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I wasn't even thinking about a can opener, I was thinking about a beverage with the tab to open xD

lol - I didn’t even think of that. I still use my dominant hand to pop the tab.

DrBob@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y (7 replies)

That tells me you are right handed. Those can openers are built in such a way that they can't be used the other way. Scissors too.

Voyajer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Hold the can opener with the hinged end pointing toward you with your right hand on the left side of the can, twist with left hand.

This guy lefts.

ccunning@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I wonder what kind of can opener OP is talking about then?

NewNewAccount@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

His description implies the top of a soda can. Thus a pull tab top can.

Someone else interpreted the same way you are.

I still use my dominant hand.

dogsnest@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Ned Flanders has a left-hand store.

DrBob@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

Do they do mail order?

I almost put no because a can opener isn't my dominant hand

BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Try making one about which hand you use to cut with knife when holding both a knife and a fork or on which hand you wear a watch

I didn't know if this is odd, but I cut with my right hand but also eat with my right hand, so I need to swap knife+fork back and forth as I eat.

Oh so you do it in 2 stages.

I just cut with my non-dominant ledt hand while holding the food with my dominant one (using the fork).

I also tend to wear watches on my non dominant hand, but almost never wear watches anyways

I write left handed, I do everything else right handed.

I feel like typically it's the inverse whether or not the person is holding the can.