Splash!

[cpurvis]

Thought the Screwpull-Waiter's Pal-Pull Tap gang would enjoy this:

Attempted to open a bottle with a friend's two-pronger & the cork went due south in a hurry. Red juice sprayed the vicinity...fortunately the wine was headed for the sangria pitcher, so no real harm done. cp

[hotwine]

The last time I tried using one of those danged things, a few months ago, I managed to chip the inside rim of the bottle's neck. I'm keepin' it around only to remind me NOT to use it again, and NOT to buy another one.

[Bucko]

I bet everyone here has done the same at one time or another. I know that I have....

Bucko

[Innkeeper]

Everytime I'm at someone's house and they hand me one of those things, I hand it back and pull the waiter's pal out of my right front pocket.

[ddf68]

I still use one. Occasionally I get a cork that's so tight that I have to break down and use a screw. I have to admit to pushing a few corks in the early days, but it's been a while now since that happened.

ddf

[winecollector]

My two pronger is still the puller of choice for me. out of the probably 1,000 bottles or so I've opened with it, I remember chipping one bottle, and pushing the cork in on a couple in the early days too. Don't have that problem any more though.... perhaps it has something to do with all the oak? <hee...hee...hee...>

[Bucko]

My favorite corkscrew of choice is the Screwpull pocket model. If a cork breaks, you can take on the screw bit, angle it to the side and manually extract that puppy. Never had a disaster with this one.

That said, I broke one trying to get a cork out of a bottle one time. The AhSo was the only thing that worked.

Bucko

[cpurvis]

Yeh wc, and if anything goes wrong you can jus' use a drill [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]
cp

[Thomas]

...or, in the case of California wine/oak, a chain saw

[Bucko]

WW is too modest to tell you about his little miniature pocket beaver that he uses to test the wines. He uses him to pull corks in an emergency.