Admittedly, it hasn't happened to me that often lately.
I am now perfectly equipped and have a bottle opener - the classic waiter's knife - at hand practically everywhere and at all times: I have one of these small but vital tools in the kitchen, in the dining room, on the balcony, when traveling, even in the car and in the office deposited.
Because I just don't feel like opening a wine bottle as unconventionally as I used to do out of necessity.
Fortunately, more and more bottles are now fitted with screw caps.
Peter Badenhop
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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Should I still unexpectedly come across the cork problem and don't have an opener on hand, there are several ways to get to the contents.
We used the first one from time to time as adolescents: You remove the capsule from the neck of the bottle and push the cork with a wooden spoon or a sturdy spoon handle with a lot of force, but slowly, into the bottle.
Not the best way, but almost always successful.
If you don't want the cork to disappear in the bottle, you can take a classic house key, place it at an angle on the cork and slowly push it in so that it bores into the cork.
Then slowly pull the key and cork out of the neck of the bottle with your hand or a pair of pliers.
This technique also works with a screw or large nail.
Finally, there is the lighter method: To do this, heat the neck of the bottle with the fire so that the air between the wine and the cork warms up, expands and pushes the cork upwards.
The bicycle pump trick works in a similar way: Push the pointed end into the cork and pump slowly.
The pressure that is created in the bottle pushes the cork upwards.
But as I said: if you organize yourself well, you can save yourself these gimmicks.