I just used one of those the other night to drain some cornys I was cleaning. It is fast. I’ve also used it for beer and never tasted any off flavors. It moves the liquid so fast, I doubt that it would have time to pick up and flavors. ;D
They sure do start easy.
It would only be good for going from a fermenter to secondary fementer or keg flooded with Co2 though… its That Fast. It would probably work very well for transferring chilled wort into a fermenter if a screen was on the end to keep trub out. You sure wouldn’t want to try bottling with it. :o 
In the past I’ve used the autosiphon, star san in tubing, vodka/suck, and CO2 for racking.
I’ve settled on using a simple racking cane, tubing and using using the pump from my star san spray bottle to get it going:
Nice idea. I’ve thought about coming up with a nozzle to attach to my CO2 bottle and shoot air across the end of the tube to develop a vacuum, but I’ve never tried it.
Interesting.
I’ve seen those copper siphon starter fittings before. That is one option I have yet to explore.
I think that squirt bottle head attached to the hose and racking cane is a great idea. That my friend is awesome. I may give that one a whirl.
Great responses guys. These are all entertaining and informative!
Thanks!
Auto Siphon here. It’s reliable and pretty much idiot-proof - goodness knows I’ve done my best to debunk this claim! :-[ 
I love my auto siphon as well.
However, I’ve been reading about using two bottling buckets. Instead of siphoning, you just move beer over through the spigot and a tube. That sounds like it could be even easier. I have a hard time with it though. I just don’t trust the seal on the spigot. Or it something will happen and break it off.
Anyone do it this way? I see a couple starter kits out there that do.
I have done it that way, just flush the lines with beer and off you go.
Another way is to use some plastic tubing from a bottling wand or a boken racking cane. Sanitize it and insert into the vinyl tubing after that and your racking cane are in the beer. Exhale, give a good suck on the plasic tube, get the beer flowing, and pull the hard tube out, procede as with the other method(s). Your mouth never gets near the vinyl tube. I learned this one from Jeff Renner.
All of the stuff to do the CO2 method has been bought, but I have not done it yet.
one more that I haven’t seen yet : … in the carboy cap inserting that white micron air filter (one NB sells with the aeration system) and giving a little puff. Works well for gravity situations, but I still use C02 instead of lifting those carboys out of the temp. controlled freezer.
Enjoyed the site Mike.