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There are surprisingly many different kinds of bottle opener out there, but the two most popular by far are corkscrews and bar blades or crown cork removers. Corkscrews are used for opening bottles with corks, such as bottles of wine or champagne. To use them, you just screw them in to the cork, and then push upon the sides and pull the cork out.

Bar blades and crown cork removers, alternatively, cannot open corked bottles. They are basically just the end section from your corkscrew, used to quickly open capped bottles. There\\\'s nothing they can do that a corkscrew can’t, but they\\\'re much smaller, easier to carry and cheaper to manufacture. These kinds of bottle opener are often stuck to tables or walls, making it easy to just grab a bottle and open it up. You can even get them on belts!

For many bottle openers are so cheap and disposable, however, it’s still surprisingly easy to find yourself without one. With this situation, the best thing to complete is to simply use a knife (make sure to use the side that isn’t sharp) or another pointy object, such as a screwdriver. In the original 1891 bottle cap patent, this is actually how the inventor with the crown cap that is now used everywhere, William Painter, says that his caps should be removed - he didn’t invent the bottle opener until couple of years later. Note that this is a very bad idea to try to get a bottle cap off with your teeth, until you weren’t fond of them anyway.

Today, however, bottle caps are now being gradually replaced with screw caps, meaning the bottle opener is at terminal decline. It appears likely that in the foreseeable future bottle openers will only be necessary for wine and beer, with other drinks coming with the much easier to open screw caps.