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An Electric Bottle Opener Keeps Cork Out Of Your Wine
You’ve just finished a long day of work. You are exhausted, and the only thing getting you through the last few hours of the day was the promise of a glass of wine as soon as humanly possible. Still in a bit of a haze from the day’s labor, you absentmindedly grab a bottle from you wine rack and carelessly start to uncork it with your corkscrew. Oops, you should have been paying more attention! You broke the cork, and your attempt to remove the bottom half of it results in a million little pieces scattered throughout the liquid in the bottle.
Sadly, this is a thing that happens. Opening a wine bottle with a normal corkscrew is not at all difficult, but sometimes you just do not give the action your full attention. In that case, you can try to sieve out the little pieces of cork, but there are no strainers available with holes small enough to catch the tiniest of the particles. Your relaxing evening is ruined.
This tragedy is one scenario in which an electric bottle opener would have come in handy. These contraptions are so great, you just place them on top of your wine bottle, press the button, and out comes the cork. It really is that simple!
Using an electric wine opener is such a no-brainer, I am having trouble even fathoming arguments against getting one. I can only think of with any merit—a regular old corkscrew gets the job done fine. In other words, why add another kitchen gizmo to the countertop? That is fair, but as the example at the beginning of the article indicates, the traditional corkscrew will always carry with it some degree of risk. It is unable to eliminate the possibility of human error. By reducing the human component to pressing a button, an electric wine opener does.
I supposed another excuse for not owning an electric wine opener might deal with the price. Because an electric wine opener is such an efficient piece of technology, it must be expensive, right? Not so. As you can see, the Secura electric wine opener (which I own and am extremely satisfied with) is 20 bucks. Compare that to the #1 bestselling wing corkscrew:
13 bucks! The electric wine opener is very much worth that $7 difference, which is less than the bottle of wine you might ruin by sticking with the manual version.