Reddit reviews Pulltap's Double-Hinged Waiters Corkscrew, Black and Stainless Steel

Fancy corkscrews are one of the biggest rip off schemes out there. All you need is a double hinged waiter’s corkscrew. They last forever and are super easy to use once you figure it out.

Pulltap's Double-Hinged Waiters Corkscrew, Black and Stainless Steel https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055OGPWS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_utXvCbRTZNJWX

I sold supplies to crew ships. This was the wine opener of choice they would order. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0055OGPWS?cache=3368486cd09dc0e01d3c1cd4c2751cd3&pi=SX200_QL40&qid=1407709424&sr=8-1#ref=mp_s_a_1_1

The Pulltap's "waiter's friend" like this one is the way to go. The two key features are the teflon-coated worm, which can be replaced when the teflon coating wears out, and the two-step "foot" the you use for leverage to pull the cork. It requires only marginally more effort than the Rabbit style and all of its various copies thanks to the double action. I've been in the wine business for more than 5 years and this is what virtually everyone in the field uses every day.

The Rabbits have several moving parts that tend to wear out and break after awhile. Rabbits also don't work very well with synthetic corks- they have a nasty habit of punching them into the bottle. The winged style and and its ilk usually have very thick worms which can shred the cork and cause it to crumble in to the bottle. This is particularly a problem with corks on older bottles which tend to be more delicate. It probably goes without saying, but those battery powered and gas-pressured openers are complete gimmicks and not worth the hassle or the money.

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The real ones are expensive to buy in the US because shipping them from Spain is expensive compared to their price. Any of the "Pulltap's" ones on Amazon are good though, even if they don't seem to be completely authentic. This one is like $9 shipped and works really really well. Once you use it and feel how awesome the double hinge is, you'll wonder why you used that thing for so long.

http://www.amazon.com/Pulltaps-Double-Hinged-Waiters-Corkscrew-Stainless/dp/B0055OGPWS


This is the only wine key you will ever need.

http://www.amazon.com/Pulltex-Pulltaps-Double-Hinged-Corkscrew-Original/dp/B0055OGPWS

What you're looking for:

• Double hinged fulcrum. See the metallic part, how there's one hinge at the base and a second hinge in the middle? That gives you a metric fuckton more leverage than you can get from any other design that I've seen that isn't some $200 countertop appliance/medieval torture device.
  
• All metal. If it's built out of plastic... yeah, that happens.
  
• Serrated blade. Other people like the smooth blade, but I don't know why; you're using glass a cutting surface, the blade will dull. Quickly. And it doesn't need to be sharp, a serrated blade can simply grab and tear the foil. A smooth blade will be superior the first two or three times you open a bottle, but never again.
  
• Actually decent quality construction. Don't get something made in China. In the cheap ones, nothing lines up, the joins are all loose, it feels wrong in your hand, etc.
  
  I'm thinking about buying like 10 of these and handing them out to all my friends with shitty bottle openers. I was at a party at my friend's house last night, someone asked me to open a bottle of wine, because no one knew how to do it, and I'm "the wine guy" and I look in the drawer and there a bunch of those insufferable wing ones. It didn't go well.
  
  In the meantime, grab some pliers, untwist the worm maybe one full rotation, and put some back into it. You'll probably spill some wine.

This is literally all you need.

https://www.amazon.com/Pulltaps-Double-Hinged-Waiters-Corkscrew-Stainless/dp/B0055OGPWS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501819622&sr=8-1&keywords=pulltap

and

https://www.amazon.com/Monopol-Westmark-Germany-Two-Prong-Puller/dp/B0002WZR4K/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1501819785&sr=1-1&keywords=ah+so+wine+opener

They make a contraption that combines the two called a Durand and it's over $100. It's super cool, it works really well, but I don't own one.

use the ah-so to open older wines where the cork may be brittle or dry. Everything else let er' rip with the waiters corkscrew.

https://smile.amazon.com/Pulltaps-Double-Hinged-Waiters-Corkscrew-Stainless/dp/B0055OGPWS

Ex-bar owner, wine buyer and wine drinker here. My wife’s an exec w/ 25 years in the wine biz.

That’s a wine opener that looks like it would work well. I definitely like the real knife blade. But damn that’s steep. From the pic, I’d have guessed $50-60.

At $150, I’d rather own a $120 knife and three of Pulltaps-Double-Hinged-Waiters-Corkscrews https://www.amazon.com/Pulltaps-Double-Hinged-Waiters-Corkscrew-Stainless/dp/B0055OGPWS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1492008756&sr=8-1&keywords=pulltaps+double+hinged+corkscrew&linkCode=ll1&tag=fwgearbestcorkscrew-20&linkId=6a60095c742651446437761b139268ba

Screw Pull is the only other wine opener that’s worth it’s asking price. Avoid the Laguiole style openers like the plague, most of them suck regardless of the price or materials.

This one's 10$ and works really well http://www.amazon.com/Pulltex-Pulltaps-Double-Hinged-Corkscrew-Original/dp/B0055OGPWS/ref=sr_1_2?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1372484757&sr=1-2&keywords=pulltex