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How to Open Wine With Your Shoe

For the next time you leave home without a corkscrew

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 18, 2010 2:42 PM CDT

(Newser) – No corkscrew? No problem. Pat Kiernan of Pat’s Papers tests a French technique he uncovered using a shoe to do the job instead. Insert the bottom of a bottle of wine into a shoe for cushioning, then simply bang it against a wall. Pressure... More »

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PrestoEnigma
Jul 19, 2010 9:55 AM CDT
I love how people copy other videos on the internet and pass it off as their own. http://www.wimp.com/wineshoe/
bewilderbeast1
Jul 19, 2010 2:41 AM CDT
Just take out your trusty sabre and thwack the top off. Quicker.
shonangreg
Jul 18, 2010 7:50 PM CDT
I still don't understand how this works. One account says pressure builds up, but if it is not a sparkling wine, then what pressure is there? Just the wine splashing against the cork? You could achieve that effect by just shaking it. I wonder if the cork would gradually work its way out of an empty bottle as well . . . You can drive the handle deeper into a hammer or axe head by holding it upside down and striking the end of the handle. It is seemingly counter-intuitive, but it works because the heavy head has much more inertia than does the light handle -- and gravity is weaker than the other forces involved. But a light cork with the heavy bottle being struck . . . It would seem that it would *very* gradually push the cork in deeper, not out.

 
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