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On Christmas Eve, you invite your girlfriend to come to your house for a carefully prepared candlelit dinner, cooking, plating, placing flowers, lighting candles... Everything is ready, and the heroine is already seated, looking at you expectantly.
Before the formal meal, you are going to open with a glass of wine, you pick up the bottle opener gracefully, gracefully screw it into the cork, and the moment you are about to gracefully lift the cork, you feel a little bad, the mose stuck a little tight, the biceps you work out every day in the gym are not enough at this time, so your girlfriend looks at your grinning face in the candlelight, as if back to Halloween.
You're trying to make a difference, and suddenly, the stopper breaks, and the broken cork is like an atmosphere that has been destroyed and can't be picked up again.
How to taste wine is a science, and how to open wine gracefully in front of a girlfriend is also a problem worth studying.
If you have an unbeliever lord who wants to achieve the effects mentioned above, you can continue to use the T-shaped wine knife. This simple knife, consisting of a handle and a auger, is the most primitive wine knife.
If you can accurately grasp the angle, coupled with a strong biceps muscles, drilling and pulling, the action is flowing, in fact, it looks very handsome. The difficulty is that most people can not meet these two requirements at the same time, to maintain elegance, in addition to continuing to exercise biceps, advanced wine knives are also essential, with them, crisp and clean, fast opening is not a dream.
1, a must-have at home - butterfly-shaped wine knife
The price of a treasure: about 30 yuan
The butterfly-shaped wine knife can be regarded as an advanced version of the T-shaped wine knife, in addition to the auger, it also has two small wings with gears, hence the name: the butterfly wine knife. This wine knife is easy to use, even girls with small arms can easily use it, pulling out the cork. If possible, you can also teach your girlfriend to use it, and there will be no embarrassment of failure at all.
It relies on the principle of leverage, when the auger is inserted into the cork, the two small wings will be lifted with the rotation of the hand, and after the drill reaches the end, the two hands will press the wings down, and the cork will be easily pulled out.
Procedure Step 1: Insert the auger into the cork stopper
Procedure Step 2: Press down the raised small wings
Isn't that simple? However, due to its large size, the bulky butterfly-shaped wine knife is inconvenient to carry and can only be used at home.
2. Friend of the sommelier - Seahorse Wine Knife
The price of a treasure: 15 yuan to several thousand yuan
The seahorse wine knife also uses the principle of leverage to pull out the cork. Compared with the butterfly-shaped wine knife, it is smaller and more comprehensive, which is a must for professionals. Its small stature slips easily into the pockets of its chest and is therefore a favourite among sommeliers.
In addition to the auger, the seahorse knife is equipped with a small knife to remove the cap, and a small handle used as a lever fulcrum. They are all as capable of being included in the hilt of a Swiss Army knife.
The price of the seahorse knife ranges from tens of yuan to thousands of yuan, the quality is made of steel, durable, and the wine cannot accompany you for a lifetime, but a good seahorse knife can.
Procedure 1: Remove the cap with the knife that came with you
Procedure Step 2: Insert the auger into the cork stopper
Procedure 3: Pull out the cork with the help of the fulcrum on the handle
Speaking of seahorse knives, we have to say "Seahorse King" (mistakenly), "King of Wine Knives" - Laguiole. Raggio is known as the "national knife" of France, and the French president presents it as a state gift to visiting heads of state.
Originally a small town in the Aveyron department of southwestern France, Lagio has been famous for making knives since ancient times. It is said that once Napoleon passed by here, the locals heard that a big man had come, and quickly offered the most well-made knives. Napoleon fell in love with the knife and immediately ordered someone to carve a winged bee on it, which means "brave". After being certified with the Royal Seal, Lagio has since gained fame.
Now, Lagio is not only the name of the town, but also a well-known brand of sophisticated knives, in addition to wine knives, you can also find kitchen knives, kitchen knives, forks and so on.
In addition to knives made of steel, each Lagio's handle is hand-polished by craftsmen, using precious natural materials such as red twigs, horns, malachite, etc., with a delicate feel and high color. (If you wish to receive a handful of Lagio for Christmas, don't forget to forward it to your girlfriend and make it clear)
3. Old wine companion - Ah-So
The price of a treasure: 10 yuan to 200 yuan
The Azo's bottle opener is a must for perfectionists because, unlike the above two wine knives, which drill holes in the middle of the cork, using it to open wine will not cause physical damage to the cork. It is used to open some old wines with fragile cork stoppers, which can be well used to avoid chipping or breaking of the cork.
This wine knife is simple in composition and consists of two thin iron pieces, one long and one short. When they are used, they are simply inserted into the gap between the cork and the glass bottle mouth, and the two iron pieces hold the cork tightly, and slowly rotate at this time, and the cork comes out unscathed.
Procedure 1: After removing the cap, insert two iron sheets into the gap, preferably rocking left and right to make the cork loose
Procedure 2: Rotate the bottle opener and pull out the cork
4. Quick operation - rabbit ear bottle opener
The price of a treasure: 69 yuan to 760 yuan
Rabbit ear openers get their name because of the shape similar to rabbit ears. This corkscrew is more convenient and labor-saving than the above. Since there is no need for the user to manually rotate it, the auger can be inserted into the cork. Despite its convenience, it is too bulky to carry around.
When using, one rabbit ear is clamped to the neck to fix the bottle, and the other rabbit ear is hit downwards, the auger is screwed into the cork stopper, and then hit upwards, and the cork is out.
Procedure 1: First pull down the rabbit ear that controls the auger, remove the cap, and secure the bottle with a rabbit ear opener
Procedure 2: Push the rabbit ears up and drive the auger down into the cork
Procedure 3: Pull the rabbit ears down and pull the cork out
5, super convenient - electronic bottle opener
The price of a treasure: 55 yuan to 300 yuan
The electronic bottle opener is one of the most convenient of these, there is no one, with it, just a few buttons, you do not need to manually rotate the cork opener, nor do you have to work hard to pull out the cork, the wine will open, it is simply a must for lazy people. With an electronic bottle opener, everyone can be a soulless bottle opening machine.
There is nothing to say about the operation steps, look at the GIF to feel its silkiness.
6, black technology - Karavin wine takeer
Tmall flagship store price: between 1,649 yuan and 3,308 yuan
The Calavin wine dispenser is the darkest of these. Wouldn't you be wondering, the front ones are called corkscrewers, but Calavin is called a wine taker.
This is because with the Karavin dispenser, you really don't even have to open the bottle.
The principle is to use a hollow needle to penetrate the cork, enter the bottle to extract the liquor, and inject an inert gas to fill the space where the liquor is extracted. Inert gases do not react with wine, in addition, after the needle is removed, due to the elasticity of the cork, the small holes will automatically close and isolate the air, so even if a bottle of wine cannot be drunk, it does not matter, there is no need to worry about oxidation, just like your love, always keep fresh, will not oxidize.
The following two methods are more dangerous, so they are put at the end. These two ways are to cut off the bottleneck directly, there is a risk in opening the bottle, and the operation needs to be cautious, so let's take a look.
7. Important ceremony essentials - champagne knife
Champagne knives are only used to open mushroom stoppers for sparkling wines such as champagne, and this method takes advantage of the weak points of the bottle itself: if you look closely, you will find that there will be a midline on the bottle, along the midline, and the place where the bottle mouth is raised is the weakest. Champagne itself is sparkling wine, the pressure in the bottle is large, just a little force at the junction of the midline and the bulge of the bottle mouth, the bottle mouth with cork is pushed out, the speed of up to 160 km/h.
This method of opening the bottle is quite formal in the West and is generally used at major ceremonies or weddings. Champagne knives are originally sabers, called sabre in French, so this way of opening the bottle is also called Sabrage.
This tradition, which is also associated with Napoleon, is said to have originated in 1812, when the triumphant soldiers were warmly welcomed by the people, who welcomed them and offered champagne. But the soldiers on horseback took the reins in one hand and the saber in the other, and could not free their hands, so they swung the big knife and directly cut off the mouth of the champagne bottle.
In addition to the saber, other things with edges and corners can also be used, such as our office friends have tried the iPhone with edges and corners. Others use goblets directly:
8, Porter old wine exclusive - Porter tongs
The principle of the Potter pliers is to burn an iron tong with a ring, and then use the heat to make the glass expand and contract, so as to achieve the purpose of breaking.
This kind of fire tongs are mainly used to age port wine, and the cork of old port wine is mostly old and decaying, very fragile; in addition, the sugar content of port wine is easy to make the cork and the bottle stick together. If you rush to use an ordinary bottle opener to open the bottle, the cork will inevitably contaminate the wine and waste a good bottle of wine.
One of the above two involves a knife, one involves fire, and it is still interesting to tell a story to your girlfriend at dinner, but if you really try, don't do it.