This is the way.
I came of age in the lead-capsule era, and this was protocol (along with wiping the lip of the bottle with a damp cloth). When I care about appearance, I still cut the capsule below the lip; otherwise I just pull it off, with a vertical slice if necessary.
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How the blade can slip easier above the lip compared to cutting it below? The part is identical on both the sides.
I understand people could cut themselves from a jagged cut on an old, thick lead foil, but incredibly difficult on modern, soft tin and aluminum foils. I actually had about a dozen empty bottles at hand in the kitchen, all cut above the lip, and I tried cutting myself with all of them, running my finger and palm around the bottle mouth and lip. Nothing. Seemed as futile as trying to make a cut with a sheet of aluminum foil.
Nothing wrong with cutting the foil below the lip, I just wonder why so many people still think cutting the foil below the lip is somehow superior to cutting below, when cutting below the lip just feels a bit outdated from my perspective. 
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I always somehow felt like I was doing this the wrong way, much preferring to cut above the lip. Maybe I am not some hapless capsule-cad after all.
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Same!
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You have leverage with a knife tilted up using the lip as a guide, you have slippage trying to tilt knife down or remain flat. I don’t see how this is even debatable unless you use one of those foil cutters, or hold the bottle upside down to gain leverage above the lip.
Doesn’t matter to me what folks do, but the standard of service is below the lip.
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I thought I was clumsy but I guess some people have it even worse.
I do, they’re handy and I use them at my home, but most of the wines I open are at tastings where I open 10-15 bottles at a time with with a normal Pulltap’s - no slippage or cut fingers.
I honestly don’t understand how one can get leverage from the lip when cutting below it but not above it if the lip is symmetrical on both sides.
I was never arguing against this. I just find it odd, but to me it doesn’t make any difference how one cuts the foil as long as the bottle gets opened.
Below the lip is my SOP and I oddly get irked by top-foil cut bottles. It’s down to training for sure and having been dinged for service almost entirely due to that.
When idgaf, I just rip that fucker off and enjoy.
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Much like the greater wine drinking community doesn’t mirror WB, the greater service industry doesn’t either.
I’d expect folks here to be handy with a wine key.
99.9% of wine drinkers have zero idea what an ah-so or Durand is. That is the overwhelming group I reference.
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Up the neck. I think the rest is just a blend of bother and ritual. Two cents please.
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I keep a knife handy for slicing one side vertically and peeling off. Ideally, I wish they were not there in the first place.
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Seems like a lot of fuss.
Willie Nelson style?
Does that involve a bong?
Does it really matter?
Today’s “Aha Moment”. This existential issue can easily be sidestepped and resolved!
de Negoce has no foil.
Just run warm water over the top of the wax. Easy peasy.
Obscure Rhinestone Cowboy joke.
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Electric Horseman?
Yes, Electric Horseman, Rhinestone Cowboy is a Glen Campbell song. Something about chrome and a trailer hitch.
-Al
I can’t even get the joke right!
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