Monday, February 16, 2009

Crazy ways to open bottles

Posted by Owen Morris on Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Are you one of those boring people who opens a beer bottle with an opener or a champagne bottle by squeezing the cork? Of course you are! Because you're rational and that's the way those bottles were meant to be opened.

Of course for years people have been opening beer bottles with teeth, belts, keys and the sides of tables. But there are other very irrational, quite dangerous ways to open bottles of booze. For instance, real men open bottles of champagne with a sword. A freakin' sword!


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In the interest of imparting some useful as well as dangerous knowledge, here's how to open both a beer bottle and wine bottle without an opener and corkscrew respectively.




The

most useful of all is the wine bottle trick. For too long the only way

to open a bottle of wine sans corkscrew was to push the cork into the

wine. But then you need to decant the wine of the cork and if

you didn't have a corkscrew, what are the odds you'll have a decanter

and cheesecloth? Using the illustrated method below, all you need is a

hard flat surface and some patience.



While all of above methods look easy, they're not, so don't go practicing the sword or wine-tree trick on a 20-year-old vintage bottle. If you've got expensive booze and no way to open it, the Swiss Army came up with just the device for you: the Picnicker knife. It's not only got a bottle opener and a corkscrew but a can-opener, a serated knife and, of course, a toothpick.

You're now the Houdini of opening bottles.

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