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I’m not fooling you but this is the best rabbit wine opener ever! Metrokane Vertical Rabbit Lever Style Corkscrew looks like a very simple and elegant black rabbit head with die cast chrome plated lever, but it does a lot more than look good. It opens wine bottles in a blink of the eye and you don’t even have to yank. Ok, I lie, it’s two blinks instead of one.
Metrokane Vertical Rabbit Lever Style Corkscrew with Foil Cutter
Super Easy to Use
You open bottles with this rabbit only by lowering and lifting that silver lever. What? Let’s be more specific with the details: you put the rabbit over the bottle with the lever up, hold it steady, then lower the lever for the corkscrew to go into the cork (it’s done by gears, you don’t have to use “gorilla strength”, as one reviewer puts it), then lift the lever up again and the cork is out!
I know some of you are going to correct me by saying you should cut off the foil first, that’s what the foil cutter is for. Yes, of course, you can do that. But according to one David Jeske, a reviewer at Amazon for the Metrokane Vertical Rabbit Lever Style Corkscrew, he has been pulling off corks through the foil with no exception yet.
Ejecting the cork from the rabbit wine opener is just as easy. Take the rabbit away from the bottle, juggle the lever between up and down position until the cork falls out.
Saves Time and Works with Plastic Corks
You can practically open a bottle in 3 seconds flat, how cool is that. Other people claims that it works with plastic corks too, though I’ve never tried. This is definitely the best rabbit wine opener I would recommend to any wine lover who can afford it.
It’s not as expensive as the Screwpull Elegance, but it’s not a cheap corkscrew either. For slightly less than $50 you get the Metrokane Vertical Rabbit Lever Style Corkscrew with Foil Cutter in a case with foil cutter, extra worm, and 10 year warranty. Worth it? I think yes. Click the link to get it now while free shipping is still available.
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by Nick on January 31, 2011
This is my personal favorite among all wine openers, everything from the shape, design, mechanics, versatility and overall reliability have left me using no other. You may be wondering what about this huge contraption can possibly leave a frequent user of wine keys and hater of cheap plastic like me to venture into the world of Metrokane Rabbit; well let me share my reasons.
Metrokane Rabbit Wine Opener Tool Kit
First of all the design may be huge and cumbersome but this large and entirely robust design is what gives me confidence when I operate it, although it is made of plastic, it does not feel flimsy and cheap at all, the silver paint makes this opener feel as if it is made of stainless steel, but seriously if the opener was made of metal I couldn’t imagine the weight and how it would affect the elderly or those who are not strong enough.
The design incorporates levers and grips, the term rabbit may have come from the grips as the look like rabbit ears, or the shape of the opener itself, but I usually cal these openers “broken butterflies” as they look like half a butterfly.
If you have trouble using this Metrokane Rabbit Wine Opener Tool Kit then it’s either one of two things, one being that you have received a faulty part that was broken during shipment or manufacturing and two being that you are incapable of handling this opener. All you need to remember with this is to grip the neck of the bottle, raise the lever to let the worm in and return the lever to its original position to fully draw the cork, if that is not simple then I don’t know what would be.
The worm is very tough, it has seen more than it is supposed to of corks, be it synthetic or regular organic ones, this worm will always find its way through, and in record time.
This set came with a lot of extra which are very useful for wine connoisseurs like me, a wine stopper, wax seal remover, a great squeeze and twist foil cutter, a drip stop ring, and an extra worm, I am definitely giving this off as a gift, all by itself, no bottle to is needed to compliment the opener.
Metrokane offers a 10 year warranty for the Metrokane Rabbit Wine Opener Tool Kit, that is more than enough to show how reliable and well made this opener is, I have been using this countless times and it has never failed me once, aside being a little too big and having average quality paint and packaging, this set is very affordable so why should one complain?
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by Nick on January 26, 2011
How a name can be tossed around and misused does not raise my eyebrows, gimmicks and marketing schemes are probably the reason why things like this happen. Anyway Houdini if you don’t already know has made escapes from as almost all types of restrainers of his time, also famed for tricks his name is synonymous with the art of appearing or disappearing at any moment, so I was intrigued for a wine opener to be named Metrokane Houdini Lever Style Corkscrew, would it make the cork or my patience vanish?
Metrokane Houdini Lever Style Corkscrew
The unit is made of plastic, with the exception of the gears and some internals being made of metal, this is quite disappointing as I tend to feel uneasy with plastic wine openers; this one on the other hand seems a little more durable than those cheap ones that feel as if they would certainly break if you were to handle them carelessly.
The mechanics are fairly simple, just like the prestigious rabbit of the same brand, this Metrokane Houdini Lever Style Corkscrew removes corks with ease, the grips are not fantastic but they work well with all wine bottles. The worm is nothing special but it gets the job done, it burrows effortlessly into the cork. Pulling the cork out did not prove to be any more difficult than it was to bore the worm in, with a simple lift the bottle is opened.
After a few uses the opener began to act in a way that was at first tolerable but later on it would prove to be very irritating, first problem that was to show itself was the bottle neck grips, they don’t hold well and would slip off, leading to either a broken cork or some minor damage to the worm.
The worm if used carelessly will lose its twist; you can replace this as separately sold worms are available. The gears will start to slip and break after awhile which will make it weaker and harder to use.
The worst case scenario for this opener would be when the cap that holds the worm and its gears decides to have an early retirement, which would lead to a useless big piece of plastic that used to be your wine opener.
This Metrokane Houdini Lever Style Corkscrew may be backed by a good brand, but honestly it does not reach to Rabbit standards, it’s a great butterfly opener, but flimsy build and poor manufacturing appears to be reason to its shortcoming.
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