Most dangerous wine opener!
It is evening and you have a fabulous dinner on the table that carefully balances every corner of the food pyramid. What would go more perfect than a nice glass of wine. Sound nice?
Opening bottles of wine in our house has turned into some sort of adventure, ranging from the ever so satisfying pop of the cork to running like a madman to the bathroom for a large towel.
The reason? The wine opener of choice.
Success
Our most successful opener has been the wing corkscrew. We had the $6 version from the grocery store that seemed to last near a decade, until one of its wings fell off. Even then, you could still manage to get a bottle open if you were really savvy and took a little time to even out the balance.
We replaced it with the newer $6 version at the local grocery story and noticed the quality was a bit more light and not as easy to open with. Within a few months, it too lost a wing and had to be tossed.
Being the geniuses that we thought we were, we obtained a heavy duty promotional one that looked like it was literally made from steel. It even had its own beautiful carrying case. The first bottle, mid cork, the handle literally came unglued. Looks can be so deceiving!
Reliability
Reliability would probably go to the basic corkscrew that is somewhere in the camping chest, that has been stored away for years.
Dangerous
Hands down the most dangerous corkscrew goes to the ah-so corkscrew (aka twin prong cork puller). I imagine it got its name ah-so because someone said ohh so that is how it works. We have had ours forever and everytime we bring it out, it reminds us why it is generally found at the back of the dwarer.
The technique is simple. You place both prongs on either side of the cork. Wiggle the sides down between the cork and bottle in a see-saw effect. When the sides are firmly secure, you grip the handle and with a twist and pull motion, the cork comes gliding out with a satisifying pop.
That’s the ideal way. As my husband says, that’s a 1/8 chance of success rate using that method.
Last night my husband had me in stitches as he opened the bottle and in went the cork and red wine literally sprayed the kitchen. To quote him “When you use that opener you literally have a 1/8 chance of stabbing yourself, 1/8 chance of success, 6/8 chance of making a complete mess.”
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