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How to Open a Bottle of Beer Without Touching it
12 Apr 2014 20:37 #2
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
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Replied by ScienceChic on topic How to Open a Bottle of Beer Without Touching it
Oh yeah?! Here's how you can pour a glass of wine without ever touching the cork. 
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And that's alcohol abuse otis!
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And that's alcohol abuse otis!
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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12 Apr 2014 21:15 #4
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Replied by ScienceChic on topic How to Open a Bottle of Beer Without Touching it
So, "corking" has nothing to do with bits of cork floating in your bottle. Corking is the name for TCA/TBA taint in wine caused by bad corks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_taint
The needle going in should not create a piece of cork to break off and fall in the wine, and even if it does it shouldn't affect the wine any more than the wine being in contact with the cork while stored on its side, as it should be if stored properly. If you don't keep the cork moist with the wine by storing it laying down, it will dry out, shrink, and allow air inside the bottle which will cause it to prematurely oxidize and taste like vinegar instead.
A valid question to ask is will the hole reseal well enough to allow for longer-term storage without spoilage. If you're drinking the wine within a week or two, and it's a natural cork, I would think it should be fine. If not, and definitely if it's a synthetic cork which is much less "springy", then this device would be essentially useless in my mind. And I'm of the same mind as you otis, if opening with friends, it shouldn't last!
But, I will occasionally have a glass with dinner and then the bottle will sit for a week or two before it's finished with the few other meals I will have a glass with so this could come in handy for that kind of use.
Now, a much more fun way to open a bottle of [bubbly] wine without touching the cork (we have a saber, it's a blast to use!)...
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The wine needle is merely making a hole in the cork in order to remove wine and in its place insert (because reducing volume of an enclosed space will cause a vacuum otherwise if not filled with liquid or a gas) an inert, noble gas which won't react with the wine. If the cork was bad in the first place, the wine will be corked no matter whether you are using this device, or opening it straight out.The chief cause of cork taint is the presence of 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA), and/or 2,4,6-tribromoanisole (TBA), in the wine, which in many cases will have been transferred from the cork, but which also can have been transferred through the cork rather than from it. Corked wine containing TCA has a characteristic odor, variously described as resembling a moldy newspaper, wet dog, damp cloth, or damp basement.
The needle going in should not create a piece of cork to break off and fall in the wine, and even if it does it shouldn't affect the wine any more than the wine being in contact with the cork while stored on its side, as it should be if stored properly. If you don't keep the cork moist with the wine by storing it laying down, it will dry out, shrink, and allow air inside the bottle which will cause it to prematurely oxidize and taste like vinegar instead.
A valid question to ask is will the hole reseal well enough to allow for longer-term storage without spoilage. If you're drinking the wine within a week or two, and it's a natural cork, I would think it should be fine. If not, and definitely if it's a synthetic cork which is much less "springy", then this device would be essentially useless in my mind. And I'm of the same mind as you otis, if opening with friends, it shouldn't last!
But, I will occasionally have a glass with dinner and then the bottle will sit for a week or two before it's finished with the few other meals I will have a glass with so this could come in handy for that kind of use.Now, a much more fun way to open a bottle of [bubbly] wine without touching the cork (we have a saber, it's a blast to use!)...
[youtube:nm6sz67t][/youtube:nm6sz67t]
http://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining- ... ring-video
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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