Whether a waiter’s, ah-so, electric, Coravin, or even port tongs (you never know with Berserkers), curious to hear what is your tool of preference to open a bottle.
From my end - I have a half-drawer’s full of shitty waiter’s corkscrews that I have accumulated and are all either useless to smoothly cut foil or too wobbly to get a nice center on the cork, so I find myself turning to a foil cutter and electric corkscrew.
Coutale Sommelier Innovation.
Durand if >10 years from vintage date.
That’s all I’ve ever needed.
Pretty much the same. Coutale and Durand. Oeonophilia Coutale is mine.
Franmara Boomerang (not the two stage) for most wines and a Durand for challenging corks.
Basic hinged waiter’s (always have three or four on hand) and an AH So for those older corks.
As former industry it had to be a waiter’s corkscrew. I love the tapered design on the screw, the massive blade that melts foil and the single action lever. It’s always perfectly centered and takes one pump to pop the corks. 
Chateau Laguiole waiters corkscrew and a Monopole ah-so. If i detect sn issue with the cork, or if it’s an older bottle, just slip in the ah-so alongside the already inserted worm and employ the method the Durand was designed on.
Not all Laguioles are as good as the best ones. The Forge ones linked above look as good as mine, and also now go for $100 more than the Durand. I’ve been using mine for 25 years. With the best like that, and with a proper ah-so, it performs slightly better thsn a Durand. And you have the benefit of not having to extract the worm of your waiters corkscrew from a problematic cork, dig out your Durand box, open that up and start over. How convenient. You also dont want to use a Durand on young hard to extract corks. But, twice the price for slightly better? The one downside of these top tier Laguioles is they dont have a hinged two-stage lever. That’s something I like for stubborn corks on some young wines. You can get very well made and designed hinged waiters corkscrews for cheap, though you need to sniff them out from a lot of mediocrity.
Is there such a thing as a corkscrew with a longer worm? If I tend to have one problem more often than I should, it’s the last quarter of the bottom of the cork snapping off.
Probably user error somehow but I’m still curious to know.
Honestly, Cork Pops. Fast and easy. Doesn’t work great on Diams but for natural cork it’s a no-brainer. If the foil is a little loose you can even go straight through the foil. Also I find that my guests like it because it gives every bottle opening a pop!
For everything else I have a basic sub-$10 ah so and a reasonably long-wormed waiter’s screw.
I have tried dozens. Most corkscrews have very dull blades for cutting foil. Life is way too short for that kind of struggle. I use this cutter, and this corkscrew, most of the time, when I am home. Otherwise, I just bring the cutter and use a high quality waiter type corkscrew, with a good blade.
Both are available on Amazon. The cutter is about $10, and worth every penny. The corkscrew is about $25-30 and very heavy duty, and very well made.
This. I have one, I never use it.
Monopol Bell gets most use, along with a couple of waiters models when away from home.
We have a Durand but rarely need to use it.
Le Creuset, formerly known as Screwpull.
A bunch of waiter’s lying around + a Durand for older bottles (15+ years of age). Also still have a few travel corkscrews (where you insert the casing in the hole above the metallic part), but now I’m wondering why…
Screw pull here as well
Waiter’s hinged for most bottles. For older corks, the Ghetto Durand (waiter’s + ah so). We got a Durand as a gift, but I rarely use it and Jonathan point blank refuses.
I had a Laguioles that I received as a gift, but it got confiscated at an airport when I forgot it was in my purse years ago.
For bottles <20 yrs, basic waiter’s corkscrew (I have 3-4 of them)
For bottles >20 yrs, Durand.
I really like my Durand fwiw.
Screw pull and Durand
