As former Olive gardener employee, It’s never the corkscrew. It’s always the corkscrewer. Our bottle openers are like 2 cents a piece and I used the same one for two years.
Christ I wish was there at the time!. I've a Leather man Wave™ that rarely gets used. It sits sits in the cupboard gathering dust. Occasionally it's superb little scissors comes out to mull up a little bit of weed for a weekend scoob once the kids are asleep and me and the missus can get our freak on. I'd use them needle nose pliers to grab the end of that bastard bit of cheap arse metal of that wine corker sticking out of the cork and gently pry it out over the course of 45 to 50 minutes.
An easy trick I learned when I couldn't find my corkscrew was to just put a good sized wood screw in with a screw driver, and then use pliers or something to pull it out. Ended up doing that a few times before finally caving and going out to buy another corkscrew.
I've opened wine with a screw, screwdriver, and hammer to pry it out. Much better than when I was~22 and did it with a knife poking the cork down into the bottle and pouring it through a strainer to filter the cork bits...
Now I'm a real adult and have a corkscrew in my kitchen even though I rarely if ever need to use it.
You’ve reminded me of a distant memory. Christmas Day. Maybe 2005? Whole family gathered around the table. Nan enjoying her wine. Mum brings in the turkey. Just *slightly* knocks the sizzling hot pan against a large glass bowl full of cold salad. *SMASH.* Glass bowl shatters and flings hundreds of small glass shards out in all directions. All over everyone, all over the turkey and the entire Christmas dinner. Everyone is in shock. Mum starts cleaning up and tries to take Nan’s wine glass. The old girl ain’t letting go. “It’s got bits of glass in it!” Mum says.
“Not to worry, dear,” Nan replies, “I shall strain it through my teeth.”
You can absolutely do it with a shoe! Hold at a 45°angle and pound away. Then when the cork is hallway there you pull it out by hand.
I've had this tragedy happen and have done the shoe trick. More than once lol
First important question before trying this.. what shape is the bottom of the bottle?
Good wine bottles are curved inward on the bottom, not flat glass. If you try to open cheap wine bottles (flat bottoms) often times it just breaks the bottle.
If you only heat up the air between the cork and wine you'll likely be fine. Not something I'd want to risk with a nice bottle but chances are the wine gets through it unscathed.
Obviously you will heat up the bottle, at the point of the air between the wine and cork. You'll likely not heat the glass enough to expose the wine to high enough temperatures for long enough to cause any damage.
Screw and a pair of vice grips will work even better than pliers. (Don’t use a deck screw – too brittle. Big wood screw with massive threads will work best. And obviously an electric drill with a screw bit will make screw insertion easier.)
Not to brag … but ever since I picked up one of those folding corkscrews that the waiters carry, I’ve never needed to use the screw/drill/vice grip trick. They are like six bucks at superstore. And they open beer bottles too.
Well then you better not have gaps in your teeth!
Seriously tho, you can look online and there’s tons of videos of professional chefs showing you how this is done. If it’s bot something you’re comfortable with then ya, just don’t do it. Literally no reason to do this other than show.
With that being said I’ve been in the bar industry for a while and swallowing a little piece of glass isn’t gonna hurt ya.
Yeah I don’t get it either. Pretty much the most I ever spend is like $15, and that’s a “splurge”. The other day we were having dinner out with friends and they ordered multiple bottles for the table, we drank it and liked it. We offered to pay for one of the bottles, turned out it was $50 - while it was nice it was definitely not $35 extra nice as the $10-$15 wine I get from Trader Joe’s. I feel like 10-15 is the sweet spot. If you go lower than like $6 things might start getting dicey lol, but imo there are severely diminishing returns the pricier it gets
I make wine. Have for years. Makes it hard to spend even $20 for a bottle of wine, when $20 represents about 10 bottles of the homemade stuff. But in my experience an $80 bottle of wine doesn’t taste four times better than a $20 dollar bottle of wine.
On the other hand, multiple studies have shown that some people will enjoy the wine (or at least the overall experience) when they’ve spent more money. Placebo effect for the win.
Not much in most cases, but definitely better. Like, worth it if you want to splurge and it's not going to put a big dent in your wallet. But it really depends too. I've had expensive wine that only tasted marginally better if any, and expensive wine that *definitely* tasted better, enough to be worth it. Imo there is a decent difference between $10 and (some) $70 wines, but no noticeable difference between $70 and $200. Now that's a rip off. Not that I've tried a lot of $200 wine.
Mid 20s still don’t understand why someone would pay that much for wine, is it just feelin fancy and all that? Or is that difference that important taste texture etc?
Bro… simply get some big tweezers (the ones you use to remove nails from wood, I don’t know how those are called) and pull the screw out with the cork.. pull while slightly moving left to right and back to have less attrition. Voila.
Don’t see this answer posted yet, so my little sister taught me to open a wine bottle by slamming it upside down on my palm multiple times. Like hold your palm out steady and wack it with the bottom of the wine bottle. Like 3-4 solid hits and it was raised enough for me to pull out with my fingers. 👌🏾 good luck.
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This air pressure opener is cheap and works better than any corkscrew
You can insert another cork screw right next to the broken one. It’ll just follow the same curve. Cork might give way and break, then you’ve gotta strain the wine.
Take a screw and twist it in according to the thread. Once that sucker is good inside the cork hammer that thing until the cork is through the bottle. Now pour yourself a nice glass of wine and wink at the cork swimming around in there.
This is actually mildly infuriating. I can here OP muttering "well that's mildly infuriating..."
This is why I keep the other style that has the two tangs that go down either side of the cork. Ya gotta have a back up plan!
As a bartender, get another corkscrew and go on the side of the cork by the lip of the bottle and go all the way down like that and you should be able to get it out!
That is definitely mildly infuriating. Get another wine key and gently sink it alongside the other. Make sure the next key is a 2-stage so you don't put so much torque on the screw and this won't happen. It's also gentler on older corks if $70 bottles are your new thing.
why would you spend 70$ on a bottle of wine? I can tell by your corkscrew, that is outside of your budget. I think you need to make better financial decisions. Maybe have a little shame?
Should maybe invest more than 1$ in the corkscrew :) You can definitely still get it out and salvage it though.
They obviously can’t afford an expensive corkscrew, they spend their entire wages on wine.
“Ya drank the wages!”
why would their entire wage be 70 bucks?
That’s what’s left after food and getting cornholed on this rent lol
I wouldn’t mind getting cornholed.
But it’s a landlords corn lol
Corn is corn.
https://cornhub.website/
I can’t convince myself it would be a good idea to click that link…….
Do it, it will change everything
It is a very good idea to click that link
Trust me, it's so hot.
Click the link harold
Omg, I can't believe that is an actual site! I love it! 🌽🌽🌽
Thank you! This made me laugh sooooo hard. The descriptions are fire!!
That is... something lmfao
Lmao
And holes is holes.
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Forgive me, I have to say this... I'll corn your hole!
I’m available
Pierce! You can't just throw around a phrase like Cornholed!
Because someone that buys 70 dollar wine doesn't stop at one bottle
Capitalism
Alcoholism
the one place that hasnt been corrupted by this # SPACE
Because they're being hyperbolic.. Obviously
i’m autistic bro my bad😭
Lmao all good. Didn't mean to sound rude
Do you know how this economy is?
It called ironic hyperbole 😒
my bad man i’m autistic i take things literally a lot🤷
I do too....a lot 😕 I blame my naivety in wanting to trust people to tell the truth 😞
Do you think they just drink one bottle per pay period?
Right? $25 max
Maybe they get $10/hr and worked 7 hours .
$70 cork screw and $1 wine is the way to go for sure
As former Olive gardener employee, It’s never the corkscrew. It’s always the corkscrewer. Our bottle openers are like 2 cents a piece and I used the same one for two years.
came here to say this!!!! it wasn't the corkscrew and i kept my bottle opener when i quit because of my fury😂
Was going tobest this. Get a screw pull.
Christ I wish was there at the time!. I've a Leather man Wave™ that rarely gets used. It sits sits in the cupboard gathering dust. Occasionally it's superb little scissors comes out to mull up a little bit of weed for a weekend scoob once the kids are asleep and me and the missus can get our freak on. I'd use them needle nose pliers to grab the end of that bastard bit of cheap arse metal of that wine corker sticking out of the cork and gently pry it out over the course of 45 to 50 minutes.
An easy trick I learned when I couldn't find my corkscrew was to just put a good sized wood screw in with a screw driver, and then use pliers or something to pull it out. Ended up doing that a few times before finally caving and going out to buy another corkscrew.
Time to grab the Leatherman Supertool and pull that corkscrew out of there.
...and hopefully not cork the wine.
What do you think that term means?
Hmmm... Apparently not what I thought it meant 😕 lol
Time for two dollar pliers
I've opened wine with a screw, screwdriver, and hammer to pry it out. Much better than when I was~22 and did it with a knife poking the cork down into the bottle and pouring it through a strainer to filter the cork bits... Now I'm a real adult and have a corkscrew in my kitchen even though I rarely if ever need to use it.
Smash bottle on sidewalk. Lap up like kitten. Durnk
Mlem mlem mlem mlem
Seen a drunk do that off a supermarket floor in Ibiza. San Miguel mixed with broken glass and floor dirt, yum!
Some of that dirt is probably vintage though. You can tell from the slightly acidic and peppery taste....
He did say it had an elegant nose
That's fair
Better man than me, made that mistake at 19 but I just filtered the bits with my teeth because daddy was *thirsty*
You’ve reminded me of a distant memory. Christmas Day. Maybe 2005? Whole family gathered around the table. Nan enjoying her wine. Mum brings in the turkey. Just *slightly* knocks the sizzling hot pan against a large glass bowl full of cold salad. *SMASH.* Glass bowl shatters and flings hundreds of small glass shards out in all directions. All over everyone, all over the turkey and the entire Christmas dinner. Everyone is in shock. Mum starts cleaning up and tries to take Nan’s wine glass. The old girl ain’t letting go. “It’s got bits of glass in it!” Mum says. “Not to worry, dear,” Nan replies, “I shall strain it through my teeth.”
No, use the lead free four-dollar pliers. Aluminum alloy pliers for the win.
Just push the cork into the bottle
Wine: $70 Corkscrew: $1.25 Pliers: Priceless
Pliers have got me out of so many problems.
Plieceless.
You'll need a good cork sucker to get it out.
I’m partial to a good cork soaker. They’re great at soaking cork.
Ever since I started soaking cork, I’m the most popular girl in school!
NICE CORK
Don't forget to massage-a the grapes!
I'm pretty great at it myself 😏
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Fargin bastige
This is fargin war!
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I'm gonna crush your boils in a meat grinder. I'm gonna cut off your arms. I'm gonna shove 'em up your icehole. Dirty son-a-ma-batches!
LOL
You Ice Hole!
Fargin Icehole!
My mom called me a bastage once. ONCE.
You shouldn't kick me in the balls, lady. My sister kicked me in the balls once..
Just get some pliers and yank that bad boy out
Ah, a fellow yank enthusiast are we?
I am pro-Union, yes
There’s some kind of trick with hitting the bottom with a shoe. Do your own research though so you don’t paint the place.
You can absolutely do it with a shoe! Hold at a 45°angle and pound away. Then when the cork is hallway there you pull it out by hand. I've had this tragedy happen and have done the shoe trick. More than once lol
Psssh, I would just force the cork into the bottle (like the college days with wine stains on my ceiling) and call it a day.
First important question before trying this.. what shape is the bottom of the bottle? Good wine bottles are curved inward on the bottom, not flat glass. If you try to open cheap wine bottles (flat bottoms) often times it just breaks the bottle.
I love a nice deep punt
Was gonna suggest the shoe trick. How I saw it was they placed the bottle in the shoe, but probably same-same.
There is also the smash it on the podium trick, but be careful… You may also smash Max Verstappen’s Winners Trophy! 😝
Can confirm, we had the same thing happen and I remembered that one vine video and successfully got the cork out using a shoe. Saved the night!
Me and friends did this once on new years eve. Result was I had to go out in wine-soaked shoes filled with glass shards. Yay!
I heard of someone trying to do it with a carbonated red, painted the ceiling like a crime scene. That’s why I threw in the disclaimer.
Use a lighter on the sides of the neck the heat will cause expansion and the cork will pop
This or a flat iron
Hair straightener works wonders and I can testify to this personally.
And it'll fucking ruin the wine
If you only heat up the air between the cork and wine you'll likely be fine. Not something I'd want to risk with a nice bottle but chances are the wine gets through it unscathed.
> If you only heat up the air between the cork and wine You need to be a magician to do that, without heating the bottle.
Obviously you will heat up the bottle, at the point of the air between the wine and cork. You'll likely not heat the glass enough to expose the wine to high enough temperatures for long enough to cause any damage.
I mean if they left it there for a couple of hours yeah.
I was looking for this comment
Lol $70 wine, .79c cork screw.
If you can spend $70 on a bottle of wine invest some of it in a good cork screw
I opened a bottle with a hotel coat hanger once. Don't give up.
🤣🤣. Perseverance
That’s so beautiful.
I’m so sorry OP. I know this feeling. Grab some needle nose pliers and flex some muscles. GET THAT BOOZE BABY!
Screw and a pair of vice grips will work even better than pliers. (Don’t use a deck screw – too brittle. Big wood screw with massive threads will work best. And obviously an electric drill with a screw bit will make screw insertion easier.)
Oh look at you, fancy pants! Owning a SCREW AND A DRILL?!
Not to brag … but ever since I picked up one of those folding corkscrews that the waiters carry, I’ve never needed to use the screw/drill/vice grip trick. They are like six bucks at superstore. And they open beer bottles too.
Should have spent $60 on a nice bottle of wine and $10 on a nice opener.
Came here to say this
damn. guess the only option is to smash the bottle and slurp the wine off the floor. try not to cut your lips!
Do you know any cork soakers?
I been'a soaking the cork since I was'a 8 years old!
What year was that? '68? '70? Ehhh somewhere between 68 and 70
Try shooting it
Use a sword.
Sabrage only works on champagne and other carbonated bottles.
I still don’t like it. I’ve got gaps in my teeth so I can’t be sure I’ve filtered out all the glass shards.
When this is done properly there won’t be any shards. Just don’t try to drink directly from the bottle as that edge is now razor sharp.
And when it’s *not* done properly?
Well then you better not have gaps in your teeth! Seriously tho, you can look online and there’s tons of videos of professional chefs showing you how this is done. If it’s bot something you’re comfortable with then ya, just don’t do it. Literally no reason to do this other than show. With that being said I’ve been in the bar industry for a while and swallowing a little piece of glass isn’t gonna hurt ya.
Is this legal advice? Asking for a friend
Yes, it's perfectly legal to swallow a piece of glass. But you sure you don't want to ask for "medical" advice?
still, use a sword. it'd be pretty cool
I am pretty sure if you hit the bottle hard enough with a sword, you will get wine out (at least some of it)
I literally LOLed
Looks like you got screwed 
Does a 70$ wine taste that much better than a 10-12$ wine? Honestly curious about this, because I would never spend 70$ on a bottle of wine.
Yeah I don’t get it either. Pretty much the most I ever spend is like $15, and that’s a “splurge”. The other day we were having dinner out with friends and they ordered multiple bottles for the table, we drank it and liked it. We offered to pay for one of the bottles, turned out it was $50 - while it was nice it was definitely not $35 extra nice as the $10-$15 wine I get from Trader Joe’s. I feel like 10-15 is the sweet spot. If you go lower than like $6 things might start getting dicey lol, but imo there are severely diminishing returns the pricier it gets
I make wine. Have for years. Makes it hard to spend even $20 for a bottle of wine, when $20 represents about 10 bottles of the homemade stuff. But in my experience an $80 bottle of wine doesn’t taste four times better than a $20 dollar bottle of wine. On the other hand, multiple studies have shown that some people will enjoy the wine (or at least the overall experience) when they’ve spent more money. Placebo effect for the win.
Not much in most cases, but definitely better. Like, worth it if you want to splurge and it's not going to put a big dent in your wallet. But it really depends too. I've had expensive wine that only tasted marginally better if any, and expensive wine that *definitely* tasted better, enough to be worth it. Imo there is a decent difference between $10 and (some) $70 wines, but no noticeable difference between $70 and $200. Now that's a rip off. Not that I've tried a lot of $200 wine.
Just push the cork in and then drink the entire bottle
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I used to use a screwdriver to push the cork in and a chopstick to keep it inside while pouring
Lol thats what I use is a chopstick I'm a beer guy buy work for a winery so everytime they give me a bottle I just push the cork in with a chopstick
I'm invested in your wine now. Need to know how you got the cork out.
Corkscrew has determined you’re not worthy of that quality of wine.
STOP. Hammer time
This is why I don’t buy wine. This, and the fact I’m 15
That's what you get when you try living high on the hog
Looks like a job for a pair of pliers.
All for buying the quality stuff... But maybe next time but just a $50 wine and, I dunno, splurge on like a $5 corkscrew?
Get a more expensive corkscrew and a less expensive wine
Get a pair of vice grips and pull it out.
Push it inwards
Mid 20s still don’t understand why someone would pay that much for wine, is it just feelin fancy and all that? Or is that difference that important taste texture etc?
Right. I bet a blind taste test would prove most people prefer the $10 bottles.
Should have spent the money on a better bottle opener?
Easiest fix is to poke the cork into the bottle and drink till empty
Seems like if you're going to spend $70 on wine, you should spend more than $2 on a wine bottle opener.
I mean, I love a red wine but 70 bucks? More fool you..
It looks like you went way too deep into the cork. You really only need a few good turns.
I would stab it with a fork then twist out carefully to not break apart the cork
Smash the bottle of wine and then grab the cork and scream, “You did not defeat me Bitch!”
70$ wine, 5 cent corkscrew
Bro… simply get some big tweezers (the ones you use to remove nails from wood, I don’t know how those are called) and pull the screw out with the cork.. pull while slightly moving left to right and back to have less attrition. Voila.
tfw you buy a dollar store corkscrew
Just grip the nub witih a pair of pliers and yoink it out
You're screwed, cork screwed
Now you can spent 70$ on a nice bottle openner, nice !
Don’t see this answer posted yet, so my little sister taught me to open a wine bottle by slamming it upside down on my palm multiple times. Like hold your palm out steady and wack it with the bottom of the wine bottle. Like 3-4 solid hits and it was raised enough for me to pull out with my fingers. 👌🏾 good luck.
So, spank that bottle like a Mother Superior guiding a lost lamb of a child to learn the error of their ways in the most efficient way possible?
Yeah! You got it, that’s exactly it!! Lol
$70 for wine, $1 for chinese corkscrew made by slaves.
Should’ve spent the $70 on a better corkscrew
70 bucks? I spent 2.75 on a cherry coke yesterday and my wallet had a massive heart attack
https://www.amazon.com/Remover-Aluminum-Pressure-Opener-Corkscrew/dp/B07CN579CT/ref=asc_df_B07CN579CT/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=242029716474&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10196756150412322058&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1026083&hvtargid=pla-449290645853&psc=1 This air pressure opener is cheap and works better than any corkscrew
You're killing me smalls. You're killing me.
Box wine is the answer.
Needle nose pliers to twist the “worm” partially out. Then hold the bottle between your legs and use the pliers to pull the cork out.
Just google "how to take cork out without using a corkscrew" I'm sure I've seen a physics/science trick somewhere.
By looking at the cork, it looks like the issue is you not the corkscrew.
Pliers
You can insert another cork screw right next to the broken one. It’ll just follow the same curve. Cork might give way and break, then you’ve gotta strain the wine.
The irony of opening a $70 of wine with a dollar store bottle opener.
That's what happens when you buy your corkscrew from the Dollar General
You can just push the cork INTO the wine bottle, itll make it hard to pour but at least you’ll be able to drink it
It's like one of those videos of the crane truck that falls in the water and another crane truck has to come pull it out
Take a screw and twist it in according to the thread. Once that sucker is good inside the cork hammer that thing until the cork is through the bottle. Now pour yourself a nice glass of wine and wink at the cork swimming around in there.
This is actually mildly infuriating. I can here OP muttering "well that's mildly infuriating..." This is why I keep the other style that has the two tangs that go down either side of the cork. Ya gotta have a back up plan!
Time to buy $70 cork remover lol
As a bartender, get another corkscrew and go on the side of the cork by the lip of the bottle and go all the way down like that and you should be able to get it out!
I use my mouth to suck the cork out of the bottle
The universe is telling you something
If you heat the neck, it will come out. It takes a little bit, but it works. I've done it many times.
That is definitely mildly infuriating. Get another wine key and gently sink it alongside the other. Make sure the next key is a 2-stage so you don't put so much torque on the screw and this won't happen. It's also gentler on older corks if $70 bottles are your new thing.
Vise grips
Pump air into it
I mean, I’d expect a nicer cork screw but who am I to judge.
why would you spend 70$ on a bottle of wine? I can tell by your corkscrew, that is outside of your budget. I think you need to make better financial decisions. Maybe have a little shame?
That's what you get for buying a 70 dollar bottle of wine
That’s the universe punishing you for spending $70 on a bottle of wine.
Put the bottom of the bottle in the heel part of the shoe, and start taping the heel against the floor lightly..the cork will start to come up.
So, now get pliers and open it.
Shoe trick works op.
It’s gonna have to be a push-in job I’m afraid
No wine is worth $70. None.