Customer Reviews

OXO Good Grips Waiter's Corkscrew

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I almost purchased a metal waiter's corkscrew but am glad I waited to get this one. The large, rubberize handle is easier to hang on to and is much more comfortable to hold in your hand. The bottle opener and corkscrew are easy to pull open and to close -- they do not "snap" shut the way knife blades can. I like that the foil cutter is not a blade that is pulled open to stick way out from the handle but is a tiny blade protected by hard plastic that juts out just far enough to cut the foil from a bottle neck. I'm not a huge wine connoisseur but I believe this corkscrew does the job while being easy to use.

I am a bartender and I work with this OXO for 3 month now. You dont want to know how many times i stung myself with this needle - eh - cork screw. Band-aid became my second best friend.
I partly agree to previous comments: I miss a small knife instead of the foil cutter. Although the cutter itself works okay, unless you need to open waxed bottle tops

I like the feel and sturdyness, but this is not a professional tool designed by professionals. I will buy something else today.

I've broken a few corks with this tool, as the "worm" doesn't reach the bottom of some corks. Other foil cutters are easier to use. Like most OXO tools, this one feels comnfortable and steady in the hand. If you're opening an older bottle or one that has a particularly long cork, use another corkscrew.

This is not the corkscrew you want for home -- that honor goes to the Screwpull. But this IS the corkscrew you want to have with you when you travel. The open screw design means you can safely open old, dry corks without fear of breaking the cork off in the bottle. The foil cutter works well, even on those plastic bottle toppers. This corkscrew does require some practive, however, as you need to line up the screw correctly -- not in the center of the cork but more towards the edge, about halfway between center and edge. On one end is a tiny flip-out blade that can be used for cutting off the foil capsule. On the other end is a lever that serves as a brace that rests on the edge of the bottle to give you leverage when extracting the cork. This makes it easy to open a bottle of wine without setting it down on a tabletop.

This is a sturdy, handy, and small corkscrew that also comes equipped with a bottle opener and a foil cutter. Its size is excellent to keep at home or to take on picnics and trips, and its corkscrew has a sharp point that goes into all kinds of corks without breaking them, even the really old ones. Its bottle opener is very easy to use, and its foil cutter, a couple of wheels with sharp edges recessed into the screw's handle, although requiring some practice, offers a clean, safe alternative to the traditional rusty knife.
Like the rest of the products from the OXO Good Grips line, this one is a great value of superior quality, unsurpassed durability and flawless performance. Its ergonomic design and big, pressure-absorbing, outstanding non-slip grip, allow you comfortable, daily, wet or dry use, and it's elegant, stylized shape makes it perfect to move back and forth between the kitchen and the dinner table.
Its easy-to-clean, simple construction and dishwasher-safe, hard-wearing materials make this a tool that you will be able to depend on for years, and its stainless-steel metal parts will permanently keep your rust worries away.
After submitting this product to over two years of normal everyday use, mine is still just like new.
--Reviewed by M. E. Volmar

Have owned a number of corkscrews from the bare bones one on the Swiss Army knife to the winged designs. OXO makes two cork extractors -- this is definitely the one to go with. The other OXO cork extractor (I think it's called the cork "pull") always got little bits of cork in the wine because the corkscrew had to go all the way through the cork for the device to work.

Aside from the rubberized grip, the best feature of this corkscrew is the replacement of the traditional knife blade with two recessed, circular blades for cutting the foil. Just put the corkscrew handle on the far side of the bottle, squeeze the near side with your thumb and rotate to make a nice, neat incision that removes the top of the foil. No more wrestling around with a rusty knife blade.

The foil cutter is awkward to use: While you circle the top of the bottle, you must press the two little wheels against the foil. There is no option but to cut the foil near the top (I like to cut it below the lip), so I use a regular knife to cut the foil rather than use the OXO.

The corkscrew itself is excellent: It has a very sharp point, and screws in easily. The spirals wide enough to grip well into the cork, providing a good grip even in old corks.

The lever which rests against the bottle is positioned and sized just right (the lever does not touch the cork, nor does it slide off the bottle).

The grip has the typical OXO feel of firmness and softness, which I like. The geometry provides good leverage and easily extracts the more recalcitrant corks.

As with any waiter's helper style corkscrew, it takes care and practice to insert the screw down the middle of the cork.

Unfortunately, after a year of service, one of the small parts in the OXO broke, and now the screw and lever flop around loosely, so I can't use it anymore.

Beautifully simple. Does exactly what it is supposed to do. What's with all those complicated gizmos for pulling a cork? Keep it simple.

I've used a fancy lever corskrew at home for years because I thought they provided the best leverage and ease-of-use, but the screw on my expensive opener keeps unscrewing itself off when opening very tight corks.

I travel a lot and carry a simple waiter's corkscrew with me because they're small and fairly easy to use too because they also have good leverage. Well one day I couldn't find my travel opener so shopped for a replacement. The thing is, you can't carry an opener on a plane if it has a knife foil cutter, so I looked long and hard for one with an alternative. (My old one had lost its knife so was easy to travel with, and I just cut the foil with the screw tip.)

The Good Grips 31681 has a wonderful and safe 2-wheel foil cutter that passes airport security, and actually works beautifully! Just run the cutters around the bottle and the foil is off. (Update 4/21/11: I see they have changed the model here and it now has a traditional knife. That's not the one I reviewed)

The next great thing about this opener is the ergonomic rubber casing that is SO comfortable when removing the cork.

But the very BEST thing about this opener is how effortlessly the corks come out of the bottles! For instance, I couldn't get one of those new imitation corks out with my lever opener because the screw wouldn't grab the cork and would just unscrew itself from the opener instead- drove me crazy! I tried this opener on it expecting to really fight the cork when pulling it out- instead it slid out like butter! I was amazed.

Now It's my primary home openener and I'm buying another one to travel with, and one for everyone in my family!

BUY IT!!!!!

For very little money, you get an easy to use and sturdy corkscrew.