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Air Pressure Wine Opener: A Disaster Waiting To Happen

By Sean Fallon / 6 comments

Air Pressure Wine Opener

This Air Pressure Wine Opener is designed to pop a cork in much the same way that a bicycle pump inflates a tire. Just insert the needle into the cork and pump it up. Eventually the air pressure will lift the cork out of the bottle – at least that’s what SHOULD happen.

My question is – what are the odds that the cork comes flying out of the bottle or that the bottleneck breaks under the increased pressure? Plus the needle has a very sharp point, so you can only imagine the possibilities for injury there. As far as I’m concerned this has got to be the deadliest wine opener on the market.

Price: £14.99 ($28.42)

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vincent

I have had one of these for years. It works fine. The bottle wont break. It works less well with the new artificial corks. The fun thing is that when you use it people think you opened a bottle of champagne!
Sean Fallon

Apparently there is some warning about using it with oddly shaped vessels – like traditional Chianti bottles.
http://finewine.com nick

Definitely you should be concerned: the combination of understanding the laws of physics, opening wine bottles, drinking and fear mongering is extremely dangerous. I would strongly recommend sticking with screwtops–although they do have metal edges–so maybe the juice box/tetra paks might actually be best for you. Try Three thieves Bandito line you only have to worry about putting a straw through paper; that doesn’t sound too dangerous, right?
Pofigisticus

I wonder how much money will get a man suiting after get blindness because of bottle that blowed up with using this stupid device??? =) Probably, it would be more safe to use usual corkscrew. In Russia, the country that I live in, we don’t use any kind of useless thing at all. At the worst it would be good to bresk a bottle’s neck…
Camilla

Had one of those for ages, works perfectly fine and is not dangerous at all.
Cris

This wine opener should mostly be used for older bottles were the corks come in pieces with the usual openers. I opened a 1933 bottle with it and the cork came out almost complete, had done it on another bottle from 1933 with the two pronged type and then had to use the regular one the result a cork in pieces. Second if you pumped it more than 10 times and you feel the pump is overheating take it out and use a regular corkscrew it is to strong. Make sure you insert the needle all the way in the new artificial corks so the air can come out. It works perfectly for antique more than 12 years natural cork bottles.

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