Answers.Body: <p>DO NOT risk the alcohol! Push cork slowly into bottle. Use a nail or something metal not a stick. A stick risks the alcohol!</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>A technique that is rarely thought of is to simply push the cork slowly down into the bottle (like with the end of a fork or with a stick,) instead of attempting to pull the cork out of the bottle. (Sometimes this cannot be done safely, however, considering that pushing the cork down into the bottle MAY create more pressure within the bottle and cause it to burst - though I have never seen that happen.)</p>
  
  <p>There is another cool trick, that I have seen though I have not needed to try it personally, where one can use one's own shoe and a hard vertical surface (usually a wall.)</p>
  
  <p>Depicted here (You don't need to speak French to understand this...):</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://youtu.be/pfWu76kyFmw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/pfWu76kyFmw</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: Haha I had to do this the other day. DO IT OVER A SINK. Once the cork was finally free the pressure caused red wine to go everywhere
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Body: <p>How can one safely go about opening a bottle of wine when there is no corkscrew present? (Obviously, we are talking corked bottles and not twist-off...)</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Question was also posted on life-hacks some time ago: https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/1550/how-can-i-remove-the-cork-from-a-wine-bottle-when-i-dont-have-a-corkscrew
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Title: How to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew?
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ThreadText: # How to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-06)
  
  How can one safely go about opening a bottle of wine when there is no corkscrew present? (Obviously, we are talking corked bottles and not twist-off...)
  
  **Tags:** wine, serving, drinking, bottles
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Question was also posted on life-hacks some time ago: https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/1550/how-can-i-remove-the-cork-from-a-wine-bottle-when-i-dont-have-a-corkscrew  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2019-12-22. Score: 2
  
  DO NOT risk the alcohol! Push cork slowly into bottle. Use a nail or something metal not a stick. A stick risks the alcohol!
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2019-12-06. Score: 2
  
  A technique that is rarely thought of is to simply push the cork slowly down into the bottle (like with the end of a fork or with a stick,) instead of attempting to pull the cork out of the bottle. (Sometimes this cannot be done safely, however, considering that pushing the cork down into the bottle MAY create more pressure within the bottle and cause it to burst - though I have never seen that happen.)
  
  There is another cool trick, that I have seen though I have not needed to try it personally, where one can use one's own shoe and a hard vertical surface (usually a wall.)
  
  Depicted here (You don't need to speak French to understand this...):
  
  <https://youtu.be/pfWu76kyFmw>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Haha I had to do this the other day. DO IT OVER A SINK. Once the cork was finally free the pressure caused red wine to go everywhere  
  
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