The Taming of the Screw Cap

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🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This now-ubiquitous container closure got its start in the 1800s and has been through a lot of innovation since then. Anney and Lauren follow the threads of the science and history of the screw cap (yes, including for wine).

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:13.5	Hello and welcome to Savor production of IHeart Radio.
0:16.0	I'm Annie Reese.
0:16.6	And I'm Lauren Bogelbaum.
0:17.9	And today we have an episode for you about screw caps, screw tops, screw top enclosures for containers.
0:27.4	Yes.
0:28.3	They go by many names.
0:30.0	Sure.
0:31.3	Sure.
0:32.0	We're continuing our look into closures of different types?
0:38.1	Yeah.
0:39.3	Yes, which by the way, every time we do one of these, at the end, I have more questions than I generally came in with, and I want to investigate more.
0:47.5	So I think it's a fun mini-series.
0:49.0	Yeah, absolutely.
0:51.0	Was there any particular reason this was on your mind, Lauren?
0:53.8	It's been on my mind ever since the last, for this entire, ever since we started looking into closures, I was like, ooh, this involves material science and mechanics.
1:08.7	That's cool on a food show. Let's go into that some more.
1:15.6	Yes. And indeed it does. And I think this gives you a real, if you needed it, a look into how nerdy we are.
1:26.1	Yeah. That we were excited to look into this.
1:30.0	However, we did come, we ran into some trouble researching this one, surprisingly.
1:35.8	Yeah, right.
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