How to Open a Wine Bottle Without a Bottle Opener
I left my bottle opener at a friend's house a couple of weeks ago, and keep forgetting to pick it up or get a new one. I did, however, remember to get some wine. When I went to open it, I had to improvise.
You will need:
A screw, preferably about an inch long
A screw driver or drill
A pair of plyers
Screw the screw driver into the cork, so that it's at least 3/4th of the way in. Hold bottle with feet, or have second person hold it. Tug on screw with plyers. It takes some effort, but less than going to the store late at night when you just want a simple glass of wine.
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There's the "three nails" method, too. Gently pound two nails (with heads) into the cork, side by side so they're nearly touching. Hold the bottle in one hand and slip the loose third nail in between the other two, perpendicular to them. Twist while pulling outward.
For someone who drinks maybe three or four times a year I know an amazingly varied number of ways to get to my alcohol in a pinch.
The likelihood of having a nail, screwdriver & pliers at hand are low.
Why not use a far simpler method: push the cork down into the bottle with a house key or your finger.
When you tilt the bottle to pour, it will simply float upwards inside the bottle. Eh voila...
Pushing it in does make resealing difficult.
Who reseals wine??!! Drink it all up!
Open it with a toothbrush.Put the winebootle between your feet and pusch the tooth brusch in the center.....OPEN YEEEES
long screw ,screwdriver and a pair of vise grips...and voila....your in napa valley chilling with coppola in his back yard...talking bout the godfather... drinking wine,,,bye friends...good luck
that is so stupid and ruins the wine if you push the cork into it. how gross!!!!! the screw pull method works far better if yo are not so lazy that you want to just push it in. once again how disgusting is it that there is a cork in your good wine??!!!!
who said that the wine I drink is good?!
thanks kitten! your trick saved the nite!
AMATEURS! Who has nails, screws, screw drivers, hammers etc...
A pair of tennis shoes, a Bikini, swimming trunks, binder twine and something to push with, a stick, a tire pressure guage, a wooden spoon, Whatever!
Simply push the cork into the bottle. Take the shoe lace, Bikini strap, draw string, Whatever, loosely tie a doubleknot in the string, push the Knot into the bottle below the cork and simply pull the cork out!
i've done somthing stupid....cork-sythetic and plastic is pushed into "decorator" bottle(by mistake I thought the cork would fit the neck). I don't want to break the bottle...any way to get the cork out???? please help me with helpful hints... if you would be so kind. Thank you!
just buy a bottle opener u stingy f**k. god dam... oh btw we are designin one at the mo if u are interested lol
This is a great solution and it works! At first I thought I'm never going to have the strength to pull this out with plyers though - tips: Use a knife to ease up the hold between the cork & bottle, just get knife/scissor in between knife and cork all around at like 10-12places, this kind of releases the cork a bit and helps when u pull out screw/cork with plyers! Voila - Happy Drinking
Stumbled across this site in my own pinch: working late at night, trying to open a wine bottle in my office… after snooping through a few desks and failing to find a corkscrew….
Anyway, I came up with one more solution: I took a pair of long metal staple removers—letter openers would've worked too—and pounded them in (using a stapler) opposite sides of the cork. The long, tapered metal slid down the sides enough that I could twist the tops against each other and torque the cork enough to twist it up. Doing this a couple of times was enough to get it right out of the bottle. It helped that the metal was a little flexible so I could twist the two staple removers against each other: I don't think I would've been strong enough otherwise.
Good luck to anyone else who came across post this from a needy Google search!
why not just smash the bottle over a basin and lick it up
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