In the Equipment Corner, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews his top pick for twist corkscrews.
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Have you seen the comments on Amazon? How many uses were used with 1 corkscrew? Overpriced and very cheaply built and does not last.
Well done but, not the opener I have that is wanted to see tested made by Lecreuset
Corkscrews? really?
Will you test electric wine openers???
I've always found these wine openers an answer in search of a problem. Any decent quality waiter's style, like a Pulltex, is dead simple to use, cheaper, and smaller. Yes, you do have to know HOW to use one, but you literally only need to watch 1 bottle opened correctly and you're fully trained.
except you still need the waiter’s friend for the foil.
Thanks!
I love the test kitchen Watched this and I don't even drink wine except on rare occasions and the box does not need a cork screw LOL Just kidding folks LOL
I was about to buy the Le Creuset opener until I read the Amazon reviews. It seems like a bit of a crap shoot due to manufacturing issues. Some of the negative reviews show that the tool falls apart after a few uses.
I also wish that these had built in foil cutters. I had a Zyliss twist cork screw that had a built-in button that you pushed and it would slice open the foil. Great convenience. Too bad it's not made anymore!
No Campagnolo Big Corkscrew? What a dilettantism….
0:22 THERE HE GOES WITH THAT LAUGH
$20 for a corkscrew? No way! Absolutely correct on the auger type screw, they are bad about tearing up corks.
I f^cking love you people. I can't believe I've watched your show for almost two decades. Oh yeah, very little is as well designed as Le Creuset. They should design submarines.
0:22 S'MADA LAUGH
Hello
I am curious why the Le Creuset performed better than Screwpull. Screwpull was the original continuous turning corkscrew. I've had multiples of them for several decades and they rock! Anyone who ever uses it wants one. They make great gifts 😉
I dont need a corkscrew but I just love ATK.
Even when I first started drinking wine, I never had an issue with the waiter style corkscrew…as long as it was the double hinged version. The single hinged waiter style corkscrew does take some practice, but if you spend an extra $1, so it's like $7 instead of $6, the double hinged waiter corkscrew stores smaller, and is faster and easier to use than almost anything else. The Rabbit and electric corkscrews are also pretty darn easy, but they're far more money.
My go to corkscrew will always be the one on my Victorinox (and I don’t even drink wine often)
Just use a waiter's corkscrew. Anything else is training wheels.
Bridgette was struggling.
3:54….That's what she said
Two very good inventions, first is the electric cork screw, works great 👍, second is the twist cork, no cork screw is needed. The bottle also has twist ridges inside the area where the cork sits, that’s right a twist off cork & twist back on if needed.
Buyer Beware. I went to Amazon and purchased the “Le Cruset original” for $17 something and it is not the one recommended here. It comes with a flimsy plastic cap to fit over the bottle, the screw is short, it’s very hard to get started and very hard to remove the cork once you’ve FINALLY gotten it out of the bottle.
I guess that Le Creuset bought Screwpull. Screwpull also used to make a very good single lever model that "The Rabbit" was based on.
Which corkscrew is easiest when you have to pull the cork off the worm?