Side by Side Comparison of: Select Culinary vs Ozeri

Both items work well, and it's a great deal for two must-have drinking essentials.

Works wonderfully on my Stella Rosa and the stopper is cute.

Perfect set.

Very nice well made and reasonably priced set.

Now I feel stupid for waiting so long to buy this great corkscrew and stopper. Recently developed arthritis in my hands and this corkscrew and topper helps me. It is a sturdy opener and stopper. Really works great. Easy to remove from packaging, too. and tug corkscrew as a So, I am very pleased with the product and would recommend it to others.

Love the heft of this wine opener. I don't drink wine, but I often cook with it. I didn't want to invest too much for an opener and had seen models like this one for much more. I'm glad I found it on Amazon and I would not hesitate to purchase another. Seems quality made and I don't expect it to fall the pieces the first time I use it.

This is the 2nd one of these we have purchased, because we unfortunately left the last one with a friend before moving out of state. We knew that we immediately needed another. Very easy to use and we've never had problems with it. Some electronic wine openers have to sit in a base to be charged, in a way that makes them unusable when they are on low charge. This one has a charging cable that can stay connected during use. Very pleased with this product (x2).

Wine opener is easy to use. Have purchased two units, one for friend who saw mine. My top wine foil cover (silver ring) broke and does not attach permanently to unit. I would have expected item to not break. Did not mishandle. Not sure if it has a warranty.UPDATE: Contacted company vie email and they will be sending me out new unit. Unit that is broken then will be returned. Contacted me within 3 hours to advise of new shipment. Outstanding customer service, moved my previous eval from 2 to 5 stars. Company stands behind the product.

We love this and wished we bought one years ago! We finally did after two relatives, including one with arthritis, raved about theirs. It's great for opening multiple bottles at parties, for getting out tight corks, including synthetic ones, and much easier to use than manual corkscrews. The attached cutter works great and means I don't have to dig one out of the drawer each time. Ours arrived with almost a full charge so we could start using it right away. We get about 50 - 60 bottles per charge. The charger is easy to use and stays in the drawer when we don't need it.

Awesome wine opener!, Purchased as a gift and I like it better than my electric opener. It is easy to use, lights up into a cool "spaceship" blue color when plugged in and would look awesome sitting on a bar top. The foil cutter is integrated into the top of the opener, so you never need to look for it!

I was a little nervous about buying this because it was a lot less than some of the name brand versions and there were a few poor reviews, but I am very happy with this opener!I bought it for my wife because she has problems using other styles of corkscrews. We have several that are supposed to be easy, but she still struggles with them and gets frustrated. This thing takes all the hassle out of her getting sauced up! ;)Very easy to use, opens wine with minimal effort, looks cool, seems well built, and is rechargeable. Extremely happy with it. The only thing I could say that would be less than 100% positive is that it is a tad bit noisy. But it pulls the cork out in about 10 seconds, so we've been able to suffer through the inconvenience.

UPDATE 20 June 16: Received an email from the company the day after stating that they were very sorry and would replace the item.The next day they shipped out a new opener with a UPS return label. New opener works fine. Great customer service and would purchase this product again! Thanks support!***Purchased this in September 2015 and broke this month. The part where the foil opener attaches has some cheap plastic piece. Now the thing won't lock on top anymore. Other than that it was a good opener but not anymore. It didn't even last 1 year. #fail

Easy open

the quality itself was not the best, but works as described. Slightly felt a little cheap when we tried using it (felt like it couldn't take so much pressure) but it worked fine.

I have had this product for more than a month now. Overall I think it does the job. However, the corkscrew is not very sharp and as a consequence getting the cork out sometimes becomes more difficult than it should be.

It's a little flimsy like its not really stable I mean it works and because of it I'm giving it 4 stars it has last me more than a month and have used it quite a few times it does the job regardless how flimsy it is.

I love the wine opener. My husband and I drink a bottle of wine maybe once a year so it was nice to find something reasonably priced that came with it's own stopper. Well the stopper sucks, to but it plainly. We ended up buying this other stoppers with great reviews on Amazon and fell in love with them. Great wine opener but sucky stopper.

Wine opener works great. The wine stopper is a little loose and comes off easy but does the job

Worked perfectly and especially for someone with carpal tunnel who belongs to a serious wine group. Used daily and opened everything easily. In the past few weeks it seemed to be working harder to open a bottle and then last night the corkscrew snapped at the plastic fitting holding it in the machine. Really a shame since we'd been very happy with it.

This bottle opener is the best. It has worked like a charm every time. The only reason for 4 stars is the wine pourer's little black rubber end came off in one of the wine bottles which we through out so now it doesn't work. All is well, we bought another one. If your struggling to open your wine bottle then buy this opener today you won't regret it.

Bought this wine opener because it came with pourer with stopper...guess what, pourer broke after 2 uses. So far the wine opener is still working...had it for 1 month and it gets used once a week.

Like others have commented this would be 5 stars if the motor was a little more powerful. It does remove the cork but sounds like it struggles to do so.

Works really well, but clear the battery is undersized. I get 1 or 2 bottles at most without a recharge.But it does work and is very convenient.Since I've bought this I've seen other devices at friends houses where they don't have problems with the battery, so I think you get what you pay forUpdated 4/28/2016 - The folks who shipped this to me saw my review and good it on themselves to ship me another one as I probably had a defective unit with a weak battery. The new one is better. I do appreciate their rapid action :-)

This is a sleek kitchen device and I love it. It is a great standard size and light weight, but sturdy. It is so easy to use. Simple rest the metal part on the cork and hold the bottle from moving and it does all the work. I also had a chance to use the foil cutter on a bigger bottle that was a one time cut and it opened. However I used the cutter on a small head bottle and it was a struggle to get the cutter thru the wrapper. It took nearly 5 attempts to get the seal broken with the cutter, however once off, the open worked great with the cork. So worth the purchase. The lighting up is an added flare! Lots of compliments received.

A little cheap and wobbly, but works for the price.

For some reason I could not turn the screw into cork. I ended up buying a different style of wine opener.

Stainless quality is solid. The wine stopper is a nice touch. This is a completely functional bottle opener.Are there better looking ones? Yes.Are there bottle openers that feel better in your hand? Also yes.But this was inexpensive, and is reliable.

The rubber on the stopper has a strong rubber smell at first. After 16 months of usage, the stopper tip shows a lot of corrosion, like the picture shows.

I am giving it 3 stars for the packaging that was flimsy, but I have no actually tried it so I do not know what to say about that. It just looks and feels cheap and wobly.

The wine opener works fine but I will be returning this item for a refund due to its unpleasant/unbearable smell. The package and the items have the smell of soured mothballs. I have hand washed and dishwasher washed them but the smell won't go away. The smell is so strong that I had to wrap them in plastic wrap to keep the smell from permeating my kitchen and house. I've purchased items online before (usually books) and had to throw them away because they had this same smell. I thought that since they were made of metal I could wash the smell off but it didn't work and I don't want to put the smelly stopper in my wine. I'm guessing it's an issue with storage so maybe someone should look into that.

Worked OK for about 1 year. After about 1 year it no longer had enough power to remove corks. This is most likely a battery issue. This is the 2nd brand that I have purchased, the 1st seemed to last "slightly" longer. I go through a bottle of wine every two or three weeks, so it definitely is not being over used. I have since purchased another brand that seems to have more power from the beginning (will review later). The latest one has been working quite well for 4 months now. Based on the current ease at which it removes corks, I am predicting a much longer life.

Had it a short while and it is not going to last. Has to be constantly charged. Old one lasted 6 years so I do not know what is the problem.

The opener works fine, wine pourer and stopper doesn't really work. The rubber part drop off from the stopper into the bottle. The stopper didn't fit well.

I've been using this for awhile and have also used the Oster one that's right in the same price range. They both have their pros and cons and this one has lasted longer. However, this one feels like it's always on the verge of dying. It doesn't matter if I charged it all day and then opened a single bottle of wine. You can hear, feel, and see (blue light dims) that the opener is struggling. So far as I'm concerned the claim that "Newly designed motor now opens up to 60 bottles on a single charge" is a BS statement. I'd be surprised if it opened ten bottles before needing a second charge. Like I've said, I've also used the Oster one. It's definitely got more power in its little motor. The Ozeri just keeps working, though. It's got an external cable for charging. It's less sleek than a charging base, but it's also a big improvement over that for one simple reason - the Oster opener is garbage the second that it runs out of batteries with a cork stuck in it. You can't charge it again without busting out your tool set and going to work on removing the cork. This is exactly what you want to do when you have friends and family over, a dinner getting cold on the table, and a few bottles of wine that are now impossible to open... get my point? So, the Ozeri wins on this account. It's got a weaker motor that seems like it's always one bottle away from grinding to a halt, but it can be charged no matter what and has so far continued to work for me in the year that I've had it.

I've opened a few bottles of wine with this device, and it has worked well every time! Sometimes, it sounds/looks like it's working hard, but it always gets the cork out, no problems.The pourer and stopper are nice, however the little rubber part of the pourer that helps fit to all size wine bottles fell off somewhere in my 2nd/3rd bottle of wine, and I didn't notice. So now it doesn't really fit snugly, with just the metal exposed.The foil cutter is really nice, but it usually take a couple of tries to get it right.Overall, this is a lot easier than a cork screw!

My old mechanical "rising wings" opener broke just when I tore some ligaments in my wrist so I decided to try an electric opener. This Ozeri does the job nicely. The mfr says it will open about 40 bottles on a full charge and the one time I kept track it opened 43 cleanly and a 44th which I had to "goose" along [start, stop, repeat] So claim met. I insert the screw for 5", then I press the retract button [it takes 3-4" to engage] for about 6-7" to pull the cork. You do need to have a firm grip on the bottle when retracting. Another 6-7" to free the cork and you're done. The whole process takes no more than 25" and is easy.UPDATE 7/17: Over time the battery has run out with increasing frequency. I'm now lucky to be able to open 9-10 bottles before the opener needs recharging.

Very flimsy and cheap. This product broke on the third bottle (the white plastic liner fell off the bottom). I guess you get what you pay for but I wouldn't buy this. Spend the extra bucks to get a solid or even electric one.

The corkscrew part doesn't fit any of the bottles of wine that I drink and they are all shapes and sizes

The wine stopper is nice, but the corkscrew is terrible. It tears up the cork causing little bits of cork to get into the wine when you re-cork it.

It's hard to center on the bottle: It destroys the corks. The stopper is handy though the little ball on top tends to unscrew.

it's okay!

First time using it, and the white plastic ring on the inside of the corkscrew came off. The box also smelled like a Chinese factory when opened (buy this product to smell what I mean), so I guess that explains that. Anyway if you put the white ring back in, it'll still function, therefore 2 stars.

Not very powerful. Bogs-down, and even stops when removing some corks. Frankly, not impressed. Yes, battery is/was fully charged.

How can I go about getting the charger for it, mine was not in the box? My friend has one and it's fantastic!! I'd like to use mine!😕

I received this item a very short time ago and straight out of the box it did not function as advertised. Call me silly but one of the product features that influenced my purchasing decision was the LED light/use functionality. OK, so I like cool lights....Upon initial inspection I would say it looked OK. Kind of cheap but that's to be expected for an electric wine opener under 25.00. I plugged in the AC adapter and found the lights to be super cool in a moody sort of way. I charged the unit overnight as recommended. The next day I removed the AC adapter and tried the opener for the first time. The LED lights don't work at all when operated on battery power only and the motor/power is mediocre at best. The added accessories are rather cheap and add no real benefit. I would not purchase this item again and will likely purchase something better soon.

Awesome... to start with and then the motor just stopped after a couple of months... Charged the battery... took it apart... no use but to fill a landfill. Was nice when it worked but not much use when it doesn't. We have about 3 bottles of wine a week... so about 30 bottles worth.

I bought this product because of the features it had and the reviews I had read. It was purchased as a gift for a friend who is a fan of wine. Naturally, I was excited to receive my order and wrap it up and give it. It worked great the first time. Nice composition, easy to use and looked great on a counter as a display. However, after only a few uses and several charges, the product gave out on my friend. I felt awful that I had raved about it and was so eager to put it to use only to have it die. Perhaps this is just a one time thing, I just didn't like the fact that it didn't last long.

Bought this to replace our previous wine opener that broke. It looks nice and functions OK. However, it does not seem to have as much torque as our previous opener and it cost more. It opens bottles, but sometimes it really struggles to get the cork out. One thing I don't care for, the charger physically plugs into the opener. If you want to take it to another room, remember to unplug it first. Our last charger just sat into the charging base which is more convenient.Update:This opener only lasted about a year. Threw it out and bought another Oster wine bottle opener. The Oster has more power, a more practical charger, and cost quite a bit less. Don't but this opener. I cahnged my review to 2 stars and that's being a little generous.

This opener breaks the crock! It happened tot he three bottles I tried opening! It is too thick for the 750ml bottle crocks!

It's not as nice as it looks. Really cheap and the stopper is useless. Tears up the cork and isn't like right size for a standard bottle, which I guess I didn't think could be an issue but it is. Just go buy a two dollar one from a drug store, it will be better.

The bottle opener started to twist bend when trying to open beer bottles. Very cheap metal.The unit appears to be painted chrome so I'm concerned it will start to flake off.

I always take bad reviews to be over dramatic. Not this time. This product literally STINKS. I was surprised. Putting the stopper into your wine bottle, will ruin the wine and your day. I cant describe the smell. It doesnt go away. Theres no masking it. You could remove the rubber from the openers wings, which would leave you with a bad design. The screw is too long, and extends below the bottom, so you must screw in the cork while the device is elevated above the bottle. It will probably work, but why. The stopper is unusabe without its stinky seal. The opener is poorly designed. I cant believe they just raised the price. Avoid this one. I wish I had!

Unfortunately, the wine opener and stopper both had and still have a terrible!! smell upon opening the package. I think the smell is coming from the plastic part of the opener and the rubber part of the stopper, but can't be sure. I have washed the items 3 times so far trying to get rid of the smell.. the items are currently soaking in baking soda and water, but I can still smell them several feet away. The sad part is that I tried out the opener and it worked really well. And the items actually look well-made. What a disappointment! I would gladly take a refund or have the items re-sent in case the items I received were defective.

Product is cheap (thin gauge) stainless steel. The overwhelming number of positive reviews prompted our purchase when we were looking for a new wine opener. Sadly, this product is very very cheap in quality and I really wished that we had not purchased this, as it will go in the trash soon. The corkscrew circumference is thicker / wider than most, which tears up the cork upon opening a bottle. For plastic or synthetic corks this is not a big deal, but for a quality bottle, this device just rips open cork. Second, the top end is advertised as being able to open beer, but it is so flimsy that after opening two bottles of beer the entire handle bends. It can be bent back by hand, so just know that the quality of the steel is very very cheap. We would return this if we still had the packaging, but we do not. It will end up in the trash next week or in the donation pile. Not much use for this. Very much regretting our purchase and the positive reviews; much better products out there. Would never recommend this to a friend.

Don't waste your money on this underpowered opener. I have had two Oster openers, both of which worked well. But, my wife and decided to try this one. Well, first it has to continually be attached by cord to its charger, or it rapidly runs out of power. Then, it often struggles to open a bottle that has been properly stored (on the side). I am pretty fed up with this thing.

This was a gift for my mother in law. I got it back from her it’s not as strong and powerful as the old one she had, so I hope I can return it.

Cam't pull the cork out of the bottle of wine!

I bought this openeri January 2017. It already is not working right, It will not hold a charge. It is nice looking but not s vrry good investment. We have tried charging it for several days but it still doesn't work.

Has no power , and the cord that plugs into opener does not fit tight. So if you don't put it in just right it won't charge. Would not recommend it.

This item never worked and never received any replacement