Corkscrews

[wellinghall]

Our corkscrew has died, and so we need a new one. What sort would you recommend?

Comments

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I get good results every time with one of this style:

http://www.winebase.co.uk/product.asp?
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It has to be a robust make though although ours didn't actually cost all that much.

I also used to get good results with a very simple waiter's type (not a folding one, the simplest sort) but this is not very good now I have a problematic shoulder, so the same might be true for you.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

America's Test Kitchen recently ran a test of various wine cork pullers and this style came Highly Recommended. They are easy to operate, usually get the cork out, and can be bought for a reasonable price.
The Waiter style everyone else is recommending here came in second. It is smaller, but requires more muscle to get the @#$%^! cork out. And, if you don't have much skill, tends to break the cork more often.
kproche got a nifty one that uses CO2 cartridges. You push a needle through the cork and press a button on the top. A bit of the CO2 goes into the bottle and forces the cork out. But they aren't cheap, and I don't know where you would buy one.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

We've found that they can have trouble with plastic corks. The screw gets stuck in the plastic and then unscrews from the rest of the mechanism. It has happened with more than one of them. Other than that they've been good.

The best type we've found is the waiter's friend.

Other than that the simple type on a Swiss Army Knife works remarkably well.