Which corkscrew should I buy?
A waiter's friend if you open a bottle now and then; a lever or geared corkscrew if you open several a week or deal with older corks. Judge the worm and the hinge, never the finish.
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Barware
Pour like you mean it
Openers that lift a cork straight, shakers that seal cold and ice that chills without watering the drink down — the home bar, properly equipped.
6 categories · 126 products
Shop barware by type
Every product sits in one clear category, from openers and cocktail tools to chilling, ice and carbonation.
Corkscrews & Bottle Openers
Waiter's friends, lever-arm and electric corkscrews, foil cutters and crown-top openers.
32 products
Cocktail Shakers, Bar Tools & Strainers
Shakers, jiggers, muddlers, strainers, bar spoons, straws and drinks-smoking shavings.
28 products
Wine & Champagne Preservation
Stoppers, wine savers, aerators, decanters, thermometers and glass markers.
22 products
Ice Buckets, Coolers & Chilling
Ice buckets, champagne buckets, cooler tubs, can coolers, tongs and bottle chillers.
23 products
Ice Moulds, Trays & Stones
Ice-ball makers, jumbo and novelty moulds, covered trays and stainless cooling cubes.
14 products
Carbonators & Sparkling Water
Aarke sparkling-water carbonators and their PET bottles for fizz on tap.
7 products
Shop by occasion
What are you pouring?
Start with the evening you have in mind — a bottle of wine, a round of cocktails or a table of people in the sun.
Everyday drinks & hosting
The short list that covers a Friday evening: an opener that works, cold ice and something to pour into.
Wine & champagne
Open it cleanly, pour it at temperature and keep what is left drinkable through the week.
Cocktails & bar tools
Shakers that seal cold, jiggers you can read at a glance and strainers that pour clear.
Chilling & serving
Buckets, cooler tubs and carbonators for long summer afternoons and a table full of people.
Choose your setup
Build the bar you will actually use
Four honest starting points. Buy the pieces for how you drink and entertain, not for how a bar looks on a shelf.
The starter bar
A waiter's friend, a jigger and a decent ice tray. Three pieces, a drawer's worth of space, and you can host without borrowing anything.
The wine drinker
A corkscrew you trust, two stoppers that still hold pressure a week later and a cooler sleeve for whites that need to come down fast.
The cocktail maker
A sealed shaker, a Hawthorne strainer, a bar spoon and a muddler. Add large-format ice moulds before you add more recipes.
The summer host
An insulated cooler tub, a hammered ice bucket with tongs, and a carbonator so nobody has to carry cases of bottled water home.
Shop by brand
Makers we know
The brands with the deepest presence in our barware range. Each opens the full collection filtered to that maker.
Barcraft
Openers, jiggers, muddlers, champagne buckets and wine coolers
Cilio
Italian corkscrews, shakers, cooling cubes and preservation
Vacu Vin
Wine savers, rapid ice chillers and glass markers
OXO
Good Grips stoppers, covered ice trays and bar essentials
Aarke
Steel sparkling-water carbonators and PET bottles
Eva Solo
Scandinavian wine racks, coolers and carafes
Bar Butler
Shakers, ice buckets and ice-ball moulds
Lizzard
Insulated stainless can coolers for outdoors
CorkPops
Gas-powered bottle openers and replacement cartridges
Nuance
Danish champagne stoppers and wine accessories
Expert advice
The questions we answer most.
Short, honest answers from the shop floor. Materials, capacities and care are listed on every product page.
How do I keep drinks cold without watering them down?
Bigger, slower ice. A single large cube or sphere melts far less than crushed ice, and stainless cooling cubes chill spirits with no dilution at all.
Do wine stoppers actually work?
The good ones do. A vacuum saver or a sprung champagne stopper should still hold pressure days later — that is the only test worth applying.
Is a carbonator worth it?
If you drink sparkling water regularly, yes. A steel carbonator replaces cases of bottled water, fizzes still water in seconds and is built to be serviced rather than replaced.
Cookin favourites
A few we keep coming back to
One from each corner of the range — openers, cocktail kit, chilling and fizz.
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A working home bar is a short list of tools that do their job without fuss: an opener that lifts a cork straight, a shaker that seals cold, a strainer that pours clear, and ice that chills without watering the drink down.
Cookin stocks barware from brands we know and trust, including BarCraft, Vacu Vin, Cilio, Dreamfarm, OXO Good Grips and Aarke. Shop by type to find corkscrews and openers, cocktail tools, wine and champagne preservation, ice buckets and chilling, ice moulds and stones or carbonators, or browse the full collection with brand, price and availability filters.