Como se pode abrir uma garrafa de vinho em segurança, quando não há saca-rolhas presente? (Obviamente, estamos a falar de garrafas arrolhadas e não de saca-rolhas…)
- **1.** Use a Screw (the longer the better), a screwdriver, and a hammer. Wrap a small towel around top of bottle and screw. Pry slowly and cautiously the screw out with claw hammer, just like pulling a nail.
- **2.** Push the cork in with the handle of a wooden spoon, or any blunt object similar in size.
- **3.** Pump it out. Start with a bike pump and place the pump needle between the cork and the rim of the wine bottle. Pump it three or four times, but be careful because if you pump too much the bottle could explode. After a couple of pumps it cork will jump out or you can pull it out.
- **4.** Twist it out with keys or a serrated knife.
- **5.** Wrap the bottle with a towel and use the wall to smack it out.
- **6.** Slap it out with a shoe, with wine bottle facing horizontal or between your legs facing down to start.
- **7.** Take a hanger and form it in the shape of a hook with a pair of pliers. Place the new hook on the edge of the cork with the u shape facing up. Wiggle the hook back and forth until it’s about 2 inches down. Rotate the hook so it grabs the bottom of the cork and then begin pulling once it catches the hook.
- **8.** Make a small cut on either side of the cork and find a pair of clean, curved nail scissors or a pair of pliers. Put the nail scissors or pliers into the place the cork was cut and lift.
- **9.** Insert a key, preferably one you have extra copies of, at a 45 degree angle into the cork until most of it is inserted into the cork. Then begin twisting the cork up as pushing up with the key until you get the cork out. Be careful because a weak key has a possibility of breaking.
- **10.** Insert a screw hook into the cork and once sufficiently screwed in, pull. Next time you won’t have to spend so much time searching for a wine opener.
- **11.** Use a string. Tie a figure eight knot and slip it past the cork by wedging it down with a screwdriver or scissors. Once the knot is below the cork, tilt the bottle and then pull the string.
Uma técnica que raramente é pensada é simplesmente empurrar a rolha lentamente para dentro da garrafa (como com a ponta de um garfo ou com um pau), em vez de tentar puxar a rolha para fora da garrafa. (No entanto, por vezes isto não pode ser feito com segurança, considerando que empurrar a rolha para dentro da garrafa pode criar mais pressão dentro da garrafa e causar o seu rebentamento - embora eu nunca tenha visto isso acontecer).
Há outro truque fixe, que já vi embora não tenha precisado de experimentar pessoalmente, onde se pode usar o próprio sapato e uma superfície vertical dura (normalmente uma parede.)
Desenhado aqui (Não é preciso falar francês para compreender isto…): https://youtu.be/pfWu76kyFmw