How to open champagne with his bare hands, and not only
Do It Yourself Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
Open the main New Year's drink only if you know a few secrets or use special devices.
How to open champagne with his own hands
1. Cool champagne to 6-8 ° C. This will not only improve the taste of the drink, but also allow him to not spill when the tube fly.
2. If you want to gently open the champagne, not shot-stopper in the ceiling, it is better not shake.
3. Wrap the bottle with a towel or cloth. This must be done in order to wet container does not slip from his hands. And so the tube will not fly away in an unknown direction, cover with a towel and neck itself: so it will be in the pocket of fabric, once released.
4. Remove the foil from the neck.
5. Place the bottle at an angle of 45 degrees so that the bottom of a rested against a hard surface, in your abdomen, thigh or inside of the palm of your hand.
6. Remove the wire holding the cork with your finger so that it does not open early. The wire can not be removed completely, but only weaken.
7. Gently turn the bottle (not the cork!), Gradually pulling the plug.
8. Once you feel that the pressure inside the bottle begins to push out the stopper, hook her thumb and gently pull it out.
9. If caught particularly stubborn bottle, you can try to hold its neck under hot water for 3-5 minutes. This will help move carbon dioxide inside the vessel to the tube and push it.
How to open champagne corkscrew
This method is suitable if the wooden plug was broken. If it is intact, it is necessary to cut the upper part of the level of the neck. Corkscrew screwed into the cork and the remains removed as well as out of the ordinary wine bottle. In this case, a towel wrapped tightly champagne need to hold in your hand so that it does not slip.
But to access this variant is better only in extreme cases. Cork is under pressure, so take off with a corkscrew if you do not hold. So, you can get hurt.
With a broken plastic plug this trick will not work. Her picks open and have to be removed in pieces.
How to open champagne with a knife
This method is quite dangerous and is designed for professionals who want to surprise the audience. Of the minuses - the cork flies sharply and could injure someone. Yes, and the drink is likely to spill. But the fragments can be avoided if you hit the right point: the pressure inside the bottle will help form a smooth cleavage.
1. Ideally, you need to take a sword or saber: they are heavier knife, so the impact is getting stronger. But at a certain skill to crank out this trick will be even with the help of a spoon.
2. Thoroughly cool drink. Remove the foil and wire.
3. Take a sword or a knife in one hand, and the second - a bottle, placing it at an angle of 45 degrees. Firmly grasp the bottle. Some advise to put a thumb in the hole in the bottom.
4. Aim at the protruding part bottleneck (the so-called lip) to a sword or a knife as if it teased.
5. Sharp movement away from you strike the neck of a sharp blade tip.
How to open champagne special devices
However, the progress reached so far that has saved us from having to open champagne heavy manual labor. There are many models of corkscrews, designed specifically for the champagne, and these are just some of them. They will allow to open the bottle with one easy movement and themselves caught plug.
Such a device will easily pull the plug, and then it will be easy to pull out of the corkscrew. It costs about 2 500-3 000.
And to open a bottle with this spin, you need only to pull up on the handle. He has been around for less: about 1500 rubles.
And with the help of this device you need to hold down the stopper as a pair of pliers, and pull over. A small hook is designed to simultaneously remove wire protection. Price is about 800 rubles.
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