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There are surprisingly many different kinds of bottle openers 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, for instance bottles of wine or champagne. To use them, you just screw them in to the cork, and then push down on the sides and pull the cork out.

Bar blades and crown cork removers, however, cannot open corked bottles. They are basically just the end section from the 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. Such bottle opener in many cases are stuck to tables or walls, rendering it easy to just grab a bottle and open it. You can even get them on belts!

For many bottle openers are so cheap and disposable, however, it’s still surprisingly no problem finding yourself without one. In this situation, the best thing to accomplish is to simply use a knife (make sure to use the side that isn’t sharp) or various other pointy object, such as a screwdriver. In the original 1891 bottle cap patent, this is actually how the inventor from the crown cap that\\\'s now used everywhere, William Painter, says that his caps ought to be removed - he didn’t invent the bottle opener until couple of years later. Note that it is a very bad idea to get a bottle cap served by your teeth, if you don\\\'t weren’t fond of them anyway.

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