What is the origin of church key?
Question: What is the origin of the phrase church key when referring to a bottle opener? Answer: Apparently bottles, especially beer bottles, were once opened with heavy, cast iron openers that resembled the same type of key used to open church doors in Europe. The name stuck even for today’s modern openers.
What is the other end of a bar key for?
One end of the bar key has a circular hole, while the other is designed to look like the conventional bottle opener we know of today. It has a lip to catch the edge of the bottle cap. Pull out your favorite bottle of beer from the cooler without drenching your hand in icy water by using the circular end of the bar key.
What is the pointy end of a bottle opener for?
What is the Circle Side of a Bottle Opener For? Most bartenders use a speed blade that has a circle on the opposite end of the bottle opener. The circular end is used to slide down the neck of a glass bottle to pull it out of a cooler. This prevents bartenders from having to get their hands cold and wet.
What is the hole on a bar blade for?
Speed opener (‘bar blade’)
The speed opener is a flat blade of steel approximately 4 cm wide and 16 cm long with a thumb hole at one end and a letterbox cut at the other to remove the crown seals from a bottle. They go under the names ‘speed opener’, ‘popper’, ‘mamba’, ‘bar key’, and most popularly ‘bar blade’.
Why do bottle openers have two sides?
The opener hole is double cut to allow you to have leverage opening bottles in a up or down motion. The shape is great for keeping in your pocket and the hole in the back side allows you to add a spinner ring and gives you a bit of flair as you get it the opener of your pocket.
Why is a paint can opener called a church key?
It’s made of cast iron and from its weight and appearance, you can see its resemblance to a church door key. With the coming of cans in the brewing business, the bottle opener gave way to the can opener that makes the triangular marks – but the name ‘church key’ was simply transferred to the new device.”
Can opener with pointed end?
Church Key Opener
This simple hand-operated opener, initially used to pry open the crown cork of glass bottles, is used to open flat top beer cans. It is made using a single piece of pressed metal and consists of a pointed edge that is used to pierce the lid.