Comments on: Opening Wine without a bottle Opener

By: rafael troche

rafael troche — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:26:35 +0000

i would like to to try every one of your options Post a video please so i can see them in action.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:42:10 +0000

This is a cool method I’ll have to remember next time. Funnily enough, last time I was stuck without a cork screw, I had a hammer and simply smashed the neck of the bottle off with it. Came off fine with very little mess although the girl sitting next to me on the sofa got some glass in her cleavage, which wasn’t cool really.

By: Malcolm Harnden

Malcolm Harnden — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:00:00 +0000

Hi,

Many years ago we would open a bottle of wine with a TOWEL. Place the towel on the bottom of the wine bottle folded end over end. Remove the cover from the cork, Holding the bottle sideways by the neck hit it against a wall with the towel on the base. The shock waves will slowly push the cork out of the bottle. I have done this 1000000s of times and never broke a bottle.

By: Alan Convery

Alan Convery — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:32:15 +0000

I have been stuck many a time, and have this slightly dangerous method.
Get 2 small sharp knives, grab bottle between the knees, insert knives down the sides of the cork, bend knives outwards and pull up. Gingerly.

If you don’t get a knife embedded in you, you get a nice glass of wine:-)

By: damon

damon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:30:34 +0000

You can also push the cork through so that it sits in the wine.

By: Dodgey

Dodgey — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:11:35 +0000

Here’s a method I have used successfully several times, you need to be brave! (I haven’t lost one yet)
Fold a hand towel into a pad, place it against a solid object, wrap a tea towel around the bottle neck first just in case, then slam the base firmly abd repeatedly against the towel, the cork comes out on it’s own!!

By: Karolis

Karolis — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:48:53 +0000

LOL Ive been using this metod for a long time since I live in new flat and always forget to buy nice opener
But its quite unefective with sintetic corks, you have to use 2 screws and place them in cenfronting directions like “V” letter… and even then its hard to pull out…
And I know method how to push cork with your thumb ;D

By: Pavel Zaitsev

Pavel Zaitsev — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:21:40 +0000

Also, you can open the bottle if you have a slim long sharp knife and you can manage to prod it all the way through the cork. When its done, you can apply one law of physics, reduction in friction. You can start rotating the cork, and when it starts moving you can start pulling the knife gently. Cork will come out. This saved me grief in many camping situations.

By: pansoti

pansoti — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:17:30 +0000

Personally I think a bottle opener is easier than the nails and hammers…

By: Dakkk

Dakkk — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:23:52 +0000

Use the spoon, the WWII method is interesting. I guess you could manage by “making a tulip” as the winoes in Poland used to say - just break the neck off.

or push the cork inside