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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI had a problem with a cork. Luckily, I'm handy and have tools.
Does this require explanation: ?
Well, O.K. So my problem with "wine" starts with "cork". This time around the cheapest ever corkscrew didn't respond the way the one I threw away did, didn't spiral around and 'round to get itself out. Next step, a fork (yes), to twist the handle around (because the knives were getting the blades dulled). Then, when the so-called "cork screw" broke off, pliers because of course. So that wasn't happening.
Luckily, there is no dearth of ideas nor tools around here, so the Dremel was up next, a drill (bit?), spiraling and spiraling into the side of the cork so as to miss the embedded screw part of the corskscrew and not shock myself to Hades.
And then, voila!1 - using closed sciswsors to leverage the remnantsw of the cork out - success!!!!!!!1
Now, to rate the taste of the corsw dust in the merlot, which can't be much worse!1
montanacowboy
(6,090 posts)hahaha, been there and done that too
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Cheers!
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)Hold a pillow against a tree at about shoulder height. Hit the bottom of the bottle against the pillow squarely and hard repeatedly. The cork will begin to come out and eventually you can grab it and pull it out with your fingers.
You're welcome.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)For both the intended drinker and the bottle. I did this a number of times and it always worked. It's much less dangerous than using tools. I learned the trick from my first father-in-law many years ago.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)seven years.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)which shows using a lighter close to the bottle neck, which makes the bottle glass expand enough for the cork to move up the neck.
Or, give the bottle to a 4 year old...he'll have it open in a shake.
I can vouch for one of these techniques.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)Response to rzemanfl (Reply #3)
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rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)Fla Dem
(23,690 posts)honest.abe
(8,678 posts)I also had similar experience. No corkscrew but lots of tools. It was actually fairly simple solution. A big wood screw into the cork and a pliers to pull out. Took some muscling but it worked!
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)dameatball
(7,398 posts)Basically it is his only real job.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)UTUSN
(70,708 posts)MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)We could get into all kinds of trouble... Must remove wine from the bottle! At all cost.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)pretty much been there, done that
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)ornotna
(10,803 posts)UTUSN
(70,708 posts)tblue37
(65,403 posts)ornotna
(10,803 posts)It comes with a pump.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Pretty impressive. Imagine a winedrinker who has a bike-tire pump, but no corkscrew.
zanana1
(6,122 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)To get the cork out of your Friday Merlot? Just pour it through.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)UTUSN
(70,708 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)But I don't think cork dust will impact the taste of the merlot since the cork has been IN the merlot the whole time. My two cents.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Needle nose vice grips. They can be used in so many ways. You can manipulate them bit by bit and get the tiny nose into places, while having the vice grip power to grasp. I never opened a wine bottle with them, but they are a go to tool.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)Hotler
(11,425 posts)clamp on to about 4-5 at a time and give a quick yank.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)I was not drunk enough to try it.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)And the initial prospect of GLASS in the consumable product put me off. But then seeing it put me off even more!1
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)Just thought I'd do a half glass this night and do the main thing tomorrow for SNL.
But first the cork thing took some time before there was readiness for the liquid.
And then keeping up with the suggestions led to refill after refill.
************SO now, almost MOST of the bottle is gone (no cork dust to speak of), and (here's the ODD part) I've seemed to get soberer and soberer - the UPDATE being: Less and less fun - although the acridity of the taste has lessened by the drink!1 Nighty nite!1
rampartc
(5,410 posts)use a stick( diameter a little smaller than the bottle top) to push the cork (or whats left of it) down into the bottle.
"so easy, a caveman could do it"
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Wine will still pour out just fine as long as you free it from the neck.
Yeah, you'll maybe get some cork crumbles in your wine, but ... so did this method.
Lunabell
(6,088 posts)Easy peasy.
KG
(28,751 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)The downside to this solution: You are then committed to drink the whole bottle, as you can't re-use the cork.
Or maybe that's an upside.
Cheers!
LawnKorn
(1,137 posts)Even the higher priced bottles of Mogen David and Manischewitz have screw caps.
Leith
(7,809 posts)It's a mushroom shape cork. If you don't want to drink the whole bottle, you will need a separate implement to seal the bottle back up.
For me, it's worth it. I've never got a corkscrew to work properly in my life.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)way back in 2001. It's one of those rare albums in which almost every song is good.
CincyDem
(6,363 posts)got one of these after seeing a guy in a restaurant open some 25 year bottle without a hitch. The corkscrew part goes in first to hold the cork together. The side puller then goes in and a few twists later...out pops the cork.
Worth it if you don't like the dust.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)it get's personal does't it? It's you against the cork.
From the pictures, it's going to end w the vino out of the bottle somehow, just a matter of how.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)there is a serious hazard potential of all sorts.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)... took a screw out of a door hinge, screwed it into the cork, and yanked it out with the pliers.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)then later the tiniest cut is a wailing situation for me!1
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Why I always buy screw tops!
Fla Dem
(23,690 posts)These tools come in quite handy.