Open a bottle w/out a bottle opener?

[biggieou]

Do any of you know how to effectively open a bottle that doesnt twist off, without having a bottle opener?

 

[AMink]

Class ring works! Wedding ring bends

 

[GiesJ]

You can use just about anything to pry it off, use your thumb as a fulcrum. I was taught with the clip on the end of a seatbelt (doesn't get more wyoming redneck than that)...

 

[benhall]

Construction workers in Germany use the old folding ruler and their thumb's to take them off. We would use our Leatherman's or the edge of a table. Caution, do not use a wooden table to do this. :-laf



Ben

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

Knife, lighter, pen, comb, belt buckle etc... Just about anything can be used. Like said above, use your thumb for leverage.

 

[GFritsch]

The hard edge of anything you don't care about. Rest the cap edge and knock down the bottle.



I used a lighter years ago when I carried one as decsibed above.



My 65 year old female neighbor uses her teeth. That even makes me cringe.



Of course redneck beer requires no opener. Just twist or pop. :-laf



Now, how about opening a bottle of wine for the ol' lady w/o a cork screw. Learned that one many years ago when I was trying to get my girlfriend, now wife tipsy... Oo.

 

[fest3er]

... Now, how about opening a bottle of wine for the ol' lady w/o a cork screw. Learned that one many years ago when I was trying to get my girlfriend, now wife tipsy... Oo.

Push the cork into the bottle. With today's synthetic corks, it can be real easy to do, especially when there's vacuum in the bottle.

 

[GFritsch]

Thats the trick, Course I heard of a way to open a botle with a needle. I would try it, but I hate needles.

 

[TSpecht]

Yes, bottles open with anything to pry with. For me that usually ends up being the swiss army knife I try to carry whereever I go (never know when I'll need a bottle opened) lol...

Haven't tried the wine cork thing. Needed it one day when I decided to have some wine with friends and they didn't have a corkscrew, neither did I. That turned into quite an ordeal. Imagine 3 people passing a bottle around trying to remove cork with anything that can be found that isn't a cork screw, including some screws, and similar stuff... I would've just had something else to drink instead but by the point I was ready to give up there was a part of me telling myself that bottle will not defeat me... Ultimately it did not... Funniest part of that story is the fact that in the store I figured we had a cork screw because I specifically thought my swiss army knife mentioned earlier had a cork screw. I mean who ever saw a swiss army knife without a corkscrew right? I didn't check it when I could've gotten one. Got home, realize they put a philips screwdriver in there where the corkscrew usually is. I never noticed before that...

 

[TORQUE THIS]

Buy cans...

My buddy broke his finger trying to open a beer bottle with his wedding band... :-laf

 

[nickleinonen]

Buy cans...

or twist top bottles...

 

[biggieou]

Good beers dont come in twist top bottles.

 

[mrsnow]

I used to use my teeth, until it slipped a few times and left a nice little gouge in one of my right mollers.



Used a phillips head screwdriver once to get a cork out.