I think it was a bit staged .But still good job on the recovery. I just
opened a bottle of wine using the angle technique mentioned in another vid.
Still this one was good to see as a last resort.
LOL--that's the corkscrew that caused the cork to break!! Those hooks
didn't line up with my bottle either. Time to buy a "normal" corkscrew.
What's with the shoe? How about using a screw instead?
Some wines come with a thick wax seal on the top. To open them, says Gillian Ballance, wine director of FARM at the Carneros Inn, push your corkscrew through ...
She's partially correct, you just go through the wax like it's not there,
but did you notice how she then had to peal away the wax that was left
behind? If you want to do this correctly, take a minute to heat up the very
top of the wax seal by just rubbing it with the palm of your hand, or run
it under hot water. Then use the corkscrew. This softens the wax so it
should break away easily well outside the edge of the rim and prevent
brittle fragments from getting in your wine.
haha wow.. you wanna freakout some more? call me strange but.. i dont pay
particuarly close attention to youtube comments and read them as careful as
i can.. and french people are the only ones that know a phrase or two of
french. and i enjoy how you insult me for passing judgement of someone i
dont knoe, then you call me uneducated and ignorant when you dont know me.
way to be a hypocrit you dunce.. but seriously now.. thats schoolyard
talk.. grow up.. grow up
thing is, it isnt a doctor.. it just is a wine bottle. you cant compare the
two to try to make a point when in real life it doesnt matter.. and i didnt
know he was french, that basically makes me take back my comment.. if he
was any other nationality though, then theres no excuse for his
disgustingly large amount of knowledge on wine.
this method leaves wax right around the lip of bottle. With wine, any small
bit of anything will alter the flavor. The proper way would be to first cut
it Below the lip, using the knife that should be in the opener, then screw
the cork (which she broke, btw)
but the cork breaks. why not just do it the same way with the knife that
you would do with a traditional foil covering? imo CHOW didn't get this one
right.
I was at a party once, and a dude "opened" a bottle of wine, on his yacht,
with a sword. I wasn't really impressed. But I was quite young...Actually,
I'm Still unaffected. Never mind.
Perhaps its not visually impressive but there is actually a clever trick behind it. The trick is to make the cold glass make a clean break at the neck under the cork and fly off. The way they do it in this video is wrong and probably leaves glass in the bottle. The right way is to find the line running along the bottle, hold it at 45 degrees to not lose too much champaign and run a metal object (saber or even a spoon will do) along the ridge without hesitation until it strikes the lip of the bottle where it will cause the top to simply fly away without fuzz.You can send this flying 5-10 meters if you shake the bottle beforehand.By the way I thought I would mention that its not actually the metal object that cuts the glass just the force applied to the lip that causes the glass to have critical failure much lower on the neck. Because its a critical failure and not a crushing blow that cracks the glass there will not be any extra shards.
How To Remove A Wine Bottle Cork
The Improv Chef - How to rescue a broken cork
We've all done it...broken a cork off in the bottle then end up with cork floaters in the wine or pushing it further down. There is a trick to getting it out though.
Thanks, this helped enormously. Had not thought of using a different type
of corkscrew so I rummaged thru my kitchen and found one of these, which I
used. I also ran hot tap water over the neck of the bottle and between the
two it slid right out. Saved the bottle, though now that it's open I'm not
sure it was worth saving. ;-) One of those heavy old reds that tastes like
burnt rubber. Not really my thing...oh well.