Comments on: Oster 4207 Electric Wine-Bottle Opener

By: Nicole M. Murray

Nicole M. Murray — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:08:07 +0000

What a cool looking opener. The problem is that once you get the cork screw into the wine bottle, you have to manually pull the cork out. I thought that the device pulled the cork out for you. I couldn’t pull the cork out, had to resort to the manual opener in the drawer. I am sending it back. I wish it were totally automated.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: Anne Fleming

Anne Fleming — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:25:08 +0000

No insult intended to this particular brand . . . but my household received about three electric wine openers this Christmas, and I have to take it as a sign of the apocolypse. It’s a fr@!#in’ cork, people! Any adult human uninpaired by carpal tunnel, syndactaly or random thumb amputation should be able to unscrew it from the bottle. For the sake of the future of the human race, listen to the voice of reason, and resign yourself to manual removal.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:49:01 +0000

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: 3 / 5

By: Magic Al

Magic Al — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:02:36 +0000

Based on all the great reviews I bought several of these as gifts for $23.99. Now I’ve come back and it’s $49.99!!!

Too bad, because it made a great gift that was really appreciated.
Rating: 3 / 5

By: G. Messinger

G. Messinger — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:04:06 +0000

Bought this item for a Christmas gift. As a result, I can only comment on shipment and receipt at this time which was very good. Item shipped and was received quickly and with no problems. Hope the Christmas receiver enjoys it.
Rating: 3 / 5