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Waiter’s friend (1882) – Karl F.A. Wienke

Student
Lecturer/s
Course topic/s
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BA Practice Based Course

Year

2022

semester

The waiter’s friend is one of the most popular corkscrews, especially among waiters, bartenders and sommeliers. It was invented and patented in 1882 by Karl F.A. Wienke a German inventor. It’s a corkscrew in a folding body, similar to a pocket knife. The characteristics are the helix, which gets twisted into the cork  and a single lever, needed to pull the cork out of the bottle by pressing against the neck of the bottle.