All it takes is some household tools and elbow grease!
Wine drinkers, we’ve all been there.
Push the cork into the bottle.
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Take a screwdriver or something else strong and narrow.
Then, use a hammer and just bang the cork in."
I was advised that you should be careful not to accidentally tap the glass bottle itself.
Just carefully hammer a blunt item onto the cork itself.
You should also prepare for potential splashing due to the pressure.
Force the cork out with heat.
You may have seen servers using a special tool to open wine bottles called Tenaz do Porto orPort Tongs.
One would usually do this with older bottles of wine which are prone to cork deterioration.
Fulghum suggests using a similar method to cleanly open any bottle new or old.
Start a lighter at the base of the corkscrew to create heat within the bottle.
That heat should cause the air particles to expand and slowly push the cork out of the bottle.
Hit the bottle on a hard surface…with a shoe.
Then, hold the bottle and bang the heel of the shoe onto a hard surface."
You should do this repeatedly until the upward pressure sends the cork flying.
Bend or break off the outer prongs of a fork.
Have you ever tried opening a cork-sealed bottle with a knife?
It’s often very difficult to twist and lift the cork with that one, slippery blade.
Then, Fulghum suggests you “stick the middle prongs into the cork, twist and lift.”
