Customer Reviews

Metrokane Velvet Foil Cutter, Black

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2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

This foil cutter requires more effort (a stronger squeeze) than it really ought to, and too much turning. The built-in foil cutter on my "Boomerang" brand waiter's corkscrew works more reliably, and requires less effort, and the whole corkscrew hardly costs more than this foil cutter.

I had expected that a purpose-built, standalone foil cutter would excel at the task, but this device came up short.

I have used a number of foil cutters over the years and have found this one to be near useless. It is not a question of quality but rather poor design. I highly recommend the Screwpull brand foil cutter as an alternative.

Horrible! Only two cutting wheels. Does not fit on bottles with an extra wide neck. Flimsy. I would guess that this will break in a month or two. Stick to a Screwpull.

I got one of these because Metrokane tends to have well designed, nice looking products. It worked just fine for cutting foils off wine bottles, but it failed in quality - the rubber/plastic (not quite sure what it was) seemed to corrode over time and became sticky. It was not like that when we first purchased it. We tried cleaning it with soap and also tried picking off the sticky bits that collected on the black part to no avail. We ended up tossing this as it became too icky to use and went for a screwpull cutter instead.

The product was promptly delivered in new/packaged condition and works just as I had hoped. No more struggles to get through foil or other seals to the cork. I don't need a $50 or more contraption for doing everything but drinking the wine for me. This does the job and a corkscrew opens the bottle. I do the rest.

The rabbit wine bottle opener is fantastic, but the foil cutter is, as someone else noted, near useless. Doesn't fit most wine bottle necks, so you have to squeeze hard and rotate at the same time to get a good cut, and you need the grip of the Incredible Hulk to accomplish this. Don't waste your time. I'm going to go for the Screwpull.

Metrokane is the standard when it comes to wine accessories, I believe in all of their products. This foil cutter works great!

Whether this foil foil cutter will work on any given wine bottle depends on the shape of the top of the bottle. I know, they're all round, haha, but some have more of a pronounced step about a quarter of an inch down from the bottle top than others. I've given up on this foil cutter and found that the two other ones I've tried have worked much better.

This is a very disappointing effort from Metrokane, with too much work for too little payoff. Interestingly, this worked OK for a month or so. Then the cutters seemed less sharp, and it took way too many turns to get the foil cut all the way around. There are much better options out there.

We had an older version of this foil cutter with only two blades. This one uses 4 blades and works great. Fast delivery too.