When I studied overseas in France , I bring a bottle of wine to the pic theater of operations underneath my Giant hoodie ( as was the style back then , in that region ) . But much tomon horreur , I had forgot to smuggle a corkscrew to accompany my $ 3 pinot .
The only pseudo - prick I could find was a John Rock - hard bread-stick I found on the floor ( this being France ) , and I pushed it on top of the bottle to no avail . The miniskirt - baguette discover , and I sit throughShutter Islandas grave as DiCaprio during a Greenpeace convention in Salt Lake City .
Do n’t let this happen to you , cyberspace friends . Here are six ( mostly effective ) method of open up stubborn wine-colored bottle – sans spiral – that are much better than French picture show theater bread-stick .
Cole Saladino/Thrillist
The Push
Pros : you could use a pack of different item – almost anything hard , skinny , and long ( hehe)Cons : You need to be kind of strong , and peradventure not heed a cork float in your wine
This is mere enough – it ’s what I tried to do with the breadstick . Just stick a very square ( again , more self-colored than a breadstick ) item on top of the bobfloat in query and just push , sister . labour like you ’re give birth triplets in a Hollywood rom - com !
A screwdriver , or a pen / pencil works very well . But the hold of a wooden spoonful is ideal , as to not deplume the cork up in the process . This torn - up bobfloat will make drinking the wine … problematic .
Cole Saladino/Thrillist
The Knife Thing
pro : knife are fun!Con : Knives are dangerous !
catch your trustworthy serrated knife out of its collector case , then stab the top of the bob near the edge , at a diagonal slant . Spin your knife around ( while keep the slant ) and get the bob to protrude out slightly . At this point , you could jam the tongue directly into the side of the cork , where you could spin out ' til release . playfulness fact : Spin ' til Release is the name of my live slow - jamz album .
The String Pull
pro : No cork in the bottle , makes you seem like goddamn MacGyverCons : It ’s kind of hard to do , you need twine AND a screwdriver
If you are n’t into swallowing chunk of cork ( first of all , develop up ) you could puncture a maw in the cork – all the agency through – then link a knot at the end of a drawstring . If you are accurate enough , only one little spit of phellem should down in your wino , which can be easily removed . employ the screwdriver to force the knotted ending through the cork . If your knot is big enough , you should be able to draw up on the string and pop that sucker like a grown - up Push Pop … that you finally discard . Or at least save as a relic , prompt you of that time you did n’t have a bottle screw .
The Towel Slap
pro : Looks amazing and machoCons : you may mess up up pretty well and shatter the nursing bottle
So get your preferred towel and determine a flat , sturdy airfoil – wall work , sure . enclose the bottle with the towel , and smack it against the aerofoil of your choice , while holding the bottle horizontally . The impulse or inertia or bulk divided by power ( I skipped a sight of physic family , OK ? ! ) will make the cork jut out . Keep doing it , till it ’s far enough out to pluck . You might fuck up your wall , but you wo n’t like when you fetch up that nursing bottle .
The Shoe-Stuff
Pros : Almost everyone has shoesCons : Sometimes shoe sense
Get your favorite hard - resole horseshoe ( sorry Croc fans ! ) and hold your wine bottleful upside down . circumvent the bottom of the bottle … hard . Against a paries , a chairman , or even your hardest bone – which is the femoris , medically speaking . The same science - matter at work in the Towel Slap are at play here : Eventually the bob will jut out and you may snag it . If you desire , you’re able to blend the two aforementioned method acting and put the bottle INSIDE your shoe , and smack it against the wall in lieu of the towel . Hey , maybe you do n’t own a towel . possibly you like to air teetotal ?
The umm… Cork Screw?
Pros : Even more MacGyver - esque than the cosmic string pull , efficaciously a homemade phellem screwCons : You postulate a clustering of stuff
So , you screw a screw propeller into the top of your cork . Then , you take the nail - snaggin ' remnant ( the claw side ) of a hammer , and pull up on that turnkey . Your cork will down off . When you are done with the bottleful , take the hammer and smash the bottleful on your neighbour ’s private road . That really does n’t help anything , but it sense super cathartic . Or so I ’ve heard .
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