Is It Possible to Open a Bottle of Wine Without a Corkscrew?

What do you do when you have a lovely bottle of wine but your corkscrew is gone? When teetotalers don’t work, there are countless unconventional ways people claim to open a bottle of wine. We checked them out.

Tip Tester is a new series in which we evaluate highly publicized “life hacks” and today we participate in the classic battle of man versus traffic jam. Let’s say you’ve lost your corkscrew and you need a MacGyver to fix the situation with what you have at hand. Following general advice we found on the internet, we tried to open a wine bottle with a screw , paper clips, and shoes . Are any of these options possible? Sure, but we wouldn’t recommend it.

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