With good wine in hand, you naturally need a good corkscrew. At present, there are many wine corkscrews on the market with various styles for you to choose from. Common ones include screw corkscrews, butterfly corkscrews, seahorse corkscrews, rabbit corkscrews and electric corkscrews. So, which should we use?

1. Screw corkscrew

The screw opener is a kind of bottle opener commonly used in China, and it is also one of the traditional bottle openers. Its structure is simple, with a screw cone. To open the cork, all you need to do is screw the screwdriver into the cork, then pull the handle and pull the cork out. It is easy to operate and inexpensive, but it is laborious.

2. Butterfly corkscrew

The butterfly-shaped bottle opener uses the lever principle of physics to design a shape with arms, like a butterfly flapping its wings and dancing. Lift to the end and then press down your arms, you can take out the cork.

This bottle opener is small in size, cheap in price, beautiful in appearance and simple in use. However, it is not suitable for opening old wines, because the corks of these wines can be fragile, and it is easy to break the old corks when taking out the corks with a butterfly corkscrew. Another problem is that corkscrews made of poor materials tend to become loose or loose, resulting in a limited upward lift of the cork, making it difficult to take the cork out at once.

3. Seahorse Knife Bottle Opener

This is undoubtedly the best bottle opener for people who drink regularly. Its shape and design is like a seahorse, which makes the original cold metal and plastic tools look more attractive. Since the Spaniards invented it, there have been many wind chasers, but there is still no bottle opener that can match it, so the seahorse knife bottle opener is also known as "the king of bottle openers". At the same time, because it is beautiful, light, practical and effortless, the seahorse knife bottle opener is also a bottle opener carried by sommeliers, so it also has the title of "friend of waiters".

It is made of high-quality stainless steel and medium carbon steel, and consists of four main parts: handle, wine wire (spiral cone), paper cutter and two card positions. When opening the wine bottle with a hippocampal knife, first use a small serrated knife to cut the bottle seal around the bottle mouth, then screw the tip of the spiral cone into the center of the cork, then erect the spiral cone and slowly rotate it clockwise to drill into the cork. Finally, the bottle mouth is stuck, and the bottle stopper is pulled up using the principle of leverage with the first-level and second-level positions as the fulcrum.

Compared with the butterfly corkscrew, the hippocampus corkscrew has an advantage in that it has two levels of stoppers. When the cork cannot be completely pulled out for the first time, the second level stopper is used to remove the remaining corks. Pull up completely.

Compared with the previous traditional bottle openers, the rabbit-shaped bottle opener is easier to use because it takes less effort and opens the bottle faster. This bottle opener is famous for its shape with long ears resembling a rabbit. When opening the cork, first pull down the tooth handle at the top of the corkscrew, raise the spiral cone to the highest position, and then place the two rabbit-ear handles of the corkscrew on both sides of the bottle mouth. Align the screw cone with the cork on the bottle. Hold the two rabbit-ear handles of the bottle opener inward with one hand, and after the bottle mouth is fastened, pull the tooth handle upwards, and then press down after pulling it to the same side as the rabbit-ear handle, so as to promote the spiral The cone is inserted into the cork. The shank is then pulled back to the highest position and the cork is pulled out. This bottle opener is effortless and very easy to use.

5. Electric bottle opener

The development of bottle openers has become more and more convenient today. The electric bottle opener has successfully got rid of the laborious and clumsy shortcomings of the traditional or commonly used bottle openers. It integrates modern science and technology, can be fully automated, and is simple and convenient to use. You only need to use the "paper cutter" to remove the bottle seal, put the bottle opener at the neck of the bottle, and then gently press the "activation button" of the electric bottle opener until the sound of the rotation stops, and then press and hold " Activation button" above, you can pull out the cork. The whole process only takes a few seconds, which is very fast and labor-saving. Before use, you must make sure the corkscrew is powered, whether the power source for the electric corkscrew comes from direct charging or an internal battery.

Generally speaking, the price of electric corkscrews will be more expensive than butterfly corkscrews and seahorse corkscrews, and about the same price as rabbit corkscrews.

6. Ah-So Bottle Opener

If the butterfly corkscrew is not suitable for opening old wine, then this Ah-So is the best tool for opening old wine. As the wine ages, the corks of old wines are also aging and becoming fragile. If, like other corkscrews, the corkscrew is screwed in from the middle of the cork and pulled up, the cork can easily be removed. If broken, the wood chips will naturally fall into the pure liquor. However, if you choose an Ah-So bottle opener, you can try to avoid this accident. The Ah-so bottle opener has a simple structure and is mainly composed of two iron pieces, one long and the other short. When opening, you only need to slowly insert the iron piece along the gap between the wine cork and the bottle, clamp the entire cork, and gently rotate to pull out the cork.