The Best Corkscrews Reviewed

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I've reviewed five of the most popular types of corkscrew, giving them points for ease of use, ease of storage and how much they add to the theatre of opening a nice bottle of wine.

As always, I have not been paid, bribed or otherwise coerced into recommending any products in this film, and the onions expressed are entirely my own.

0:00 Introduction
0:26 What you want from a corkscrew
0:51 Pulltex Toledo waiter's friend corkscrew
1:38 Le Creuset / Screwpull Lever corkscrew
2:22 Ewimart battery-powered corkscrew
3:07 Le Creuset Classic corkscrew
3:42 Phoewon pump action corkscrew
4:34 The winners are ...

If you are interested in buying one of the corkscrews in this review, the links are below, and I don't get any commission.

The Pulltex Toledo - Waiter's Friend Corkscrew

The Le Creuset Lever Corkscrew

The Ewimart battery-powered corkscrew

The Le Creuset Classic Corkscrew

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I give this review a 10 for vocabulary, 10 for comedy, and a 10 for theater.

DarkKar

Battery Powered Corkscrew: my daughter has Cerebral Palsy, and has use of only 1 hand - so this device is perfect: 30 points! Perspective, my friend. Perspective.

HBGUF

These are fine tools for young wine, but I wouldn’t use them on bottles with 50+ year-old corks. For such bottles only the Durand will do…

Space wise the Durand takes almost no space. Ease wise, the first couple of bottles will be hard, but the knack is easily learned and thereafter 100% success rate on very old bottles.

The Durand helps you pull with more confidence than Mick Jagger in a nightclub.

GodfreyMann

I’m getting the battery one! I’m tired of struggling to open a bottle!

Melanin_Libra

We nearly had a cork extraction failure last week, when our star performer 'The Pullex' eluded our search efforts. We brought in a 'stand in' which was our kids footbal inflator in all it's flourescent green glory. .. jammed that needle in, add a few pumps, and we lowering our blood pressure. Got a sitting O for that one... Enjoying the channel...

TheoSmith

We’ve had the electronic-type one for about 12 years. Ours has a blue neon light which appeals to my tech-side. It’s certainly the longest-lasting corkscrew we’ve ever had and doesn’t take long to recharge. But that’s just my opinion!

WhippetOut

I have never worked behind a bar, nor am I an expert with regard to corkscrew etc. BUT, you deliberately made out the Le Creuset was a problem to use. It is very very easy to use...and the oh-so-clumsy way you removed the cork from it after removing it from the bottle?...
Like any tool/utensil in the kitchen ( that actually works) what happened to you doesn't happen when you use it properly and not sat down with hands you seem to have lost control of.
Those people who might not have the strong hands/wrists/arms, or those with arthritis joint issues or the like...this makes life easier. No twisting movements and levers to reduce the power needed to get the cork out. However, they do have some plastic parts that fail.

garryleerob

200th like! ~ Totally agree with the electric bottle opener being a waste of resources and real estate. Traditional sommelier knife is the best of everything and adds to the experience of wine.

charlie

dude, that video was good! Also bc I'm loving the fact that the "basic" classic was a winner... exactly similar to the one I have! (found on the street/second hand objects BTW!) mine is a no-name solid metal wood-handle. What's the black watch, Mr Gadgetman!?

jackMcRyder

You're missing one. You need to try the Phoenixware winged (double lever) wine bottle opener. I have a pretty red one. It works like a traditional bottle opener, except the "wings" rise up as you screw it into the cork. Then you just put it on the table or countertop and pull the 2 "wings"/levers down and out comes the cork. Very easy, but a little bulky. Not as bulky as that big silver one you have though. LOL. Love your sense of humor.

Dragonheat

Looks like the Phoewon is the easiest?

Brian-ewbn

Electric wine openers also work for wine enthusiasts with bad arthritis like my dad

joebaranski

A Laguiole 1 step opener or nothing. Otherwise the bottle stays closed!

nospam

This perhaps the silliest review I have ever seen. If the implement does not easily open the bottle, then theater and ease of storage are completely meaningless. Because the "waiter's friend" is the corkscrew that most waiters and wine snobs use--waiters and sommeliers use it simply because it is small and lightweight and easy to transport, which matters if you are waiting on tables all day--you just knew that it was going to come in first, despite the fact that the lever style is much easier and faster to use, as even this review demonstrates. So if you are not using the corkscrew in a professional setting, then get a lever-style. The very nice steel unit I bought from Amazon was $38, so his quoted price of 100 quid given here is peculiar.

tlhuffman