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 - Perfect Wine Opener - I love it!!The Oster wine opener was given to me as a gift from my son and his wife. They knew I was having trouble with my hands and wrists due to my carpal tunnel and this was the perfect gift for me. I have been so pleased with the ease of use and the flawless removal of the corks. No more struggling to get the corks out. I used to think the Rabbit was great, but after my hands started hurting, even the Rabbit was too hard to use. The Oster solved my problem and now I can open my own bottles again! I am an artist and I recycle my corks into art pieces. The Oster wine opener removes the corks cleanly and it does not tear up the cork as other openers are apt to do. If you are looking for a great gift for a wine enthusiast - this is definitely it!! Rating: - Coolest Invention EverWine lovers best friend - makes opening wine bottles easy and works great for hands suffering from Arthritis. Instructions say to cut the bottle wrap surrounding the cork, but this works without having to do that extra step. Amazing value for the low price! Rating: - BEST wine opener everThere is no big piece of hardware to haul out of the cupboard, no stress to your elbow, no body parts to put at risk. You just stand comfortably and push a button. Voila, here comes the cork out of the bottle. Push the button again and the cork is released. I charge mine about once a week. It is fun, easy and takes up very little space. Easily moved to an outside table, or bar b q area. Especially good for seniors or anyone with compromised strength in their hands or arms. Rating:  - Works well enough, but an ELECTRIC wine opener? Really??I bought one of these at Costco on a whim (and because it was cheap), but after using it about three or four times times, the novelty wore off. Having this thing sitting on my counter, plugged in, wasting energy for no reason -- it just grated on me. So back it went. I imagine the people who swear by these would be fascinated by the electric martini shaker, too. (I'm not kidding: Waring Pro WM007 Professional Electric Martini Maker.) You know, because you're just TOO IMPORTANT and your life is TOO BUSY and TOO HARASSED for you to have to actually shake your own martinis or exert a tiny scrap of effort to crack open a bottle of Pinot Noir, so don't you DESERVE to take it easy and have these energy-sucking machines do all that horrible work for you?! Imagine all the valuable time you'll save with this convenient thing sitting on your counter... time you can spend on the more important things in your life! (Cut to soft-focus shot of dad playing and laughing with kids in the backyard.) My little "rabbit" wine opener (Metrokane Rabbit Wine Opener Gift Set, Silver) does a considerably faster job of opening wine. Now, mind you, I actually DO have to move a lever back and forth one entire time, and I also have to hold the handles and squeeze them, so it's a huge, epic pain...*sigh*... but it works every time and it doesn't sit there sucking down electricity during the 99.968% of the time it's not being used. I only occasionally have to sit down and rest from the exhaustion of uncorking a bottle of wine when using this primitive manual device, so I guess it's not that bad. Things like this on the market absolutely drive home the fact that our actual needs in American life are being met so utterly and completely, that we feel compelled to buy "electric wine openers." The electric martini shaker just leaves me with my mouth hanging open... I honestly can't even comment. This wine opener is not a BAD product, honestly... it works reasonably well, and that's why it got 3 stars from me. It's just a totally needless and wasteful product. What's next, a plug-in rechargeable electric Chap-Stik applier? Rating: - Oster wine openerGave as a gift and the recipient loved it. Will keep in mind to give as a gift again to any wine lover.
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