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If the price of some wine openers makes you pop your cork, and you can't get the hang of those cheaper winged things, you might like an electric corkscrew. You just press a button to pull the cork and again to eject it from the screw. Opening usually takes less than 10 seconds.
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Best in our tests were the Emerson Electric Wine Bottle Opener BO60 and its virtual twin, the Oster Inspire Collection Electric Wine Opener 4207. They cost about $20. Both come with a foil cutter and have a rechargeable battery and a charging base. A third, battery-powered corkscrew, the One Touch Wine Opener KC07, was noisier than the others and a bit slower, and could be hard to fit over some bottle necks.
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