Opening a bottle of beer - what could be easier? But what to do if the lid is not rotatable, you don’t have an opener with you, and there are completely no man-made solid objects with sharp corners around?
There will always be a talented person in the company who will show his extraordinary abilities and save his improvident comrades. However, you can become this superhero, because with some practice you can turn literally anything into an opener.
With another bottle
As a rule, in the initial state we have more than one bottle on hand. The beauty is that two glass containers with beer with a volume of 0.5 liters themselves already turn into an opener.
Do not try to connect the bottles with the teeth of the corks and “pull them apart” - nothing good will come of this. It is better to firmly grasp one bottle by the neck so that the distance between your finger and the cork is slightly less than the diameter of the cork itself. We take the second bottle and rest the edge of its cork against the teeth of the bottle being opened. The resulting lever will allow you to easily open the bottle with a light and confident movement of your hand.
However, one problem remains: how to open the last bottle? :)
Using a lighter
As in the previous case, we firmly grasp the bottle by the neck, but now the grip should be almost close to the cork. Place a lighter under the teeth of the cork.
The knuckle of your finger will act as a fulcrum (so it is important to grip the bottle tightly), and the lighter will become an excellent lever. We confidently and forcefully press on the opposite edge of the lighter body (don’t worry about your finger, it won’t break), after which we get the desired “puff”.
Using thick paper
Any (probably except toilet) paper, when handled correctly, turns into a bottle opener. Perhaps someone took a journal or notebook with them? Fabulous! We sacrifice the page in the name foamy drink and tightly roll the sheet into a tube version, but only flatten it at the end.
Now, if you add up the resulting multilayer strip in half, then the bend will be hard and strong enough to open the bottle.
The correct grip technique for creating leverage remains the same.
Text instructions with pictures are, of course, good, but no one has canceled the truth “it’s better to see once,” and therefore we invite you to personally familiarize yourself with the video that clearly demonstrates the methods described above.
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Quite often I hear the question: “How to open a bottle of beer with a lighter?” He may also have various options with the use of other objects and devices. As a rule, such a need arises when there is no opener. Sooner or later, each fan of the foamy drink has encountered such a problem. The solution is incredibly simple.
The operating principle of any beer opener comes down to using the most common lever. There is almost always something at hand that can be used in this role.
Use a lighter or key
Anyone with an imagination can roughly imagine how to open a beer with a lighter. This statement is true even if he never saw the process itself.
The principle is simple. Take a cheap one plastic lighter. It should be clamped in a fist so that the lower part of the body protrudes 1-1.5 cm from the side thumb. Another piece of advice is that it is better for right-handed people to do this with their right hand, and for left-handed people with their left.
After this, take a beer bottle in your free hand so that your fingers close closer to metal lid. Then slide the corner of a lighter under the lid. After this, press the part of the lighter with the wheel so that the support for the improvised lever is the thumb of the hand with the bottle. This movement can be either smooth or more abrupt. The sharper you make it, the higher and more spectacular the cork will bounce.
The key point is that it is the corner of the lighter that is slipped under the lid, and not its flat part.
Instead of a lighter, you can use any flat, hard object. For example, keys to an apartment.
With a second bottle
Grasp the neck of your beer bottle tightly strong hand. After this, press its bottom to any flat horizontal surface. For example, to a table or bench. Take the second bottle in your free hand and turn it upside down. Then match the teeth of the cap of the inverted bottle with the teeth of the first one. After this, the same lever principle works.
This method requires some skill and practice. But once you get the hang of it, the whole process will only take you a few seconds.
A piece of paper works wonders
To implement this method you will need any sheet of paper. It could be a newspaper, a magazine, or even a banknote. The main selection criterion is density. The thicker the paper sheet, the better.
Fold the paper in several layers. The task is to obtain a flat and as hard as possible plate. In the future, proceed as in the case of a lighter.
Considering that any paper material itself is quite soft, you should not try to print a bottle of beer in one dashing movement. Work gradually, loosening the edges of the lid on several sides.
Eye trick
In the matter of opening beer bottles, the question: “How to open a beer with your eye?” is without a doubt the second most popular question. This trick is often called uncorking the bottle with your eyebrows.
Let's start with the fact that this is really a trick. Despite his simplicity, in a friendly company he always goes with a bang. For its implementation, several conditions must be met.
You can only open the plug on the thread with your eye. You will need a little time to prepare.
So, open one of the bottles in advance. This must be done unnoticed by others. For example, going to the kitchen for a foamy drink. After this, put the plug back on. The main thing is that it holds tightly enough and does not become loose. But you shouldn’t delay it too much.
Then we bring the bottles and place them on the table. Of course, you should keep the one that has undergone our special training. Next, you should attract everyone’s attention with some bright phrase. Something like: “Well, let’s shake things up with old times.” Then bring the beer bottle to your eye, pinch the cap with your eyebrow and twist. Yes, don’t forget to make the sound: “Shhhhhhhh” for believability.
Then enjoy your friends' reactions. The main thing is to come up with an excuse in advance for asking to re-demonstrate the method on their bottles. You can say that you can’t open more than one at a time, otherwise there will be a bruise.
How to quietly open a beer can?
Sometimes you may need to silently open a beer can. This is not at all easy to do. This is due to the tightness of the metal container.
Get rid of it completely loud sound no possibility. But if you place the can under a thick blanket or pillow, it can be largely muffled.
The second option to open the can without attracting too much attention is to disguise the process with another sound. Turn on the music or TV louder. You can also cough.
Opening a bottle of beer - what could be easier? But what to do if the lid is not rotatable, you don’t have an opener with you, and there are completely no man-made solid objects with sharp corners around?
There will always be a talented person in the company who will show his extraordinary abilities and save his improvident comrades. However, you can become this superhero, because with some practice you can turn literally anything into an opener.
With another bottle
As a rule, in the initial state we have more than one bottle on hand. The beauty is that two glass containers with beer with a volume of 0.5 liters themselves already turn into an opener.
Do not try to connect the bottles with the teeth of the corks and “pull them apart” - nothing good will come of this. It is better to firmly grasp one bottle by the neck so that the distance between your finger and the cork is slightly less than the diameter of the cork itself. We take the second bottle and rest the edge of its cork against the teeth of the bottle being opened. The resulting lever will allow you to easily open the bottle with a light and confident movement of your hand.
However, one problem remains: how to open the last bottle? :)
Using a lighter
As in the previous case, we firmly grasp the bottle by the neck, but now the grip should be almost close to the cork. Place a lighter under the teeth of the cork.
The knuckle of your finger will act as a fulcrum (so it is important to grip the bottle tightly), and the lighter will become an excellent lever. We confidently and forcefully press on the opposite edge of the lighter body (don’t worry about your finger, it won’t break), after which we get the desired “puff”.
Using thick paper
Any (probably except toilet) paper, when handled correctly, turns into a bottle opener. Perhaps someone took a journal or notebook with them? Fabulous! We sacrifice the page in the name of the foamy drink and tightly roll the sheet into a tube version, but only flatten it at the end.
Now, if you fold the resulting multilayer strip in half, the fold will be hard and strong enough to open the bottle.
The correct grip technique for creating leverage remains the same.
Text instructions with pictures are, of course, good, but no one has canceled the truth “it’s better to see once,” and therefore we invite you to personally familiarize yourself with the video that clearly demonstrates the methods described above.
Subscribe to Lifehacker's YouTube channel. There is still a lot of useful and interesting things for you.
We hope that with this knowledge your summer refreshing get-togethers will be even more fun, and now we invite you to turn the comments section of this post into an encyclopedia of “1000 and one ways to open a bottle of beer with improvised means.”
“Give me a foothold and I’ll open any bottle for you!” Well, okay, maybe Archimedes didn’t speak quite like that. But it is on the principle of leverage that the classic bottle opener is built. But if there is no opener, then - right! - we need to find a lever among the objects around us.
Grasp the neck of the bottle more tightly with your left hand, right hand take a disposable lighter (1) and make a lever out of it by sliding the tip under the skirt of a metal beer cap. Use the tense joint of the thumb on your left hand as support. Here's an object lesson from applied physics. This method has been widely known for decades, but it can be modernized by using a USB flash drive instead of a lighter (2).
Another long-known improvised means(just be careful not to wet yourself!). Find a metal plate (3) on the door into which the lock tongue should fit, insert the head of the bottle into the lock groove and try to catch the steel skirt on its edge. Now gently turn the bottle, resting the other side of the cap on the lining.
Take a stationery stapler (4) and slide its tooth under the corrugations of the steel skirt. Walk along the contour of the lid, slightly bending corrugation by corrugation. Eventually the lid will pop off on its own. The same “anti-pressure” procedure can be performed using a wrench (5) or a nail file (6).
Of course, many items from home kit tools: a flat-blade screwdriver (7) is perfect, wire cutters (8) are quite suitable, pliers (9) are very good for this job, and even better - narrow-nose pliers (10).
The square hole in the car belt buckle (11) serves as an ideal opener, but you shouldn’t do it in a moving car. If you have run out of patience, and your hands are not skilled enough, you can turn to brute force. Hold the bottle between your thighs, hook the cap with the edge of the file (12) and pull upward with force. In the same style, you can use a spirit level (13) or some other electronic device like early IPOD NANO models (14) .
If there are large scissors lying around (15), feel free to use them. The bottle can also be opened with a ring on your finger (16). ( Wedding ring We don’t recommend it - soft metals like gold are easily bent and chipped.) Place your finger on the lid so that the edge of the ring catches on the corrugated skirt and pull your hand up (or the bottle down - whichever is more convenient for you). It might hurt, but the drink is worth it, right?
A climbing carabiner (17) can also save you in difficult times. Push its tongue in and hook the lid skirt with the bracket so that it can act as a lever.
Any countertop will do (18). Place the hem of your skirt against the edge and slam it on top free hand. Of course, you are unlikely to be thanked if you use antique furniture. In the same way, you can open a bottle by pressing the lid against sharp edge any stone (19) or into any clamp (20) on any pillar - just make it comfortable and don’t overdo it with the force of the blow.
BUT YOU DON'T NEED TO DO THIS
All bottle opening methods described above have been field tested and approved by Popular Mechanics. They fully reflect the entire spectrum available funds, at your disposal to defeat jagged metal obstacles. However, there are also less natural ways which we nevertheless cannot pass over in silence. For example, this one.
Turn the bike over and spin the rear wheel. After this, carefully hold the bottle tightly in your hand towards the knitting needles until one of them rips off the beer cap.
And one more. Place the bottle in your mouth and hook the steel skirt onto your lower teeth, then turn the bottle, resting the other edge of the cap on your upper row of teeth ( Men's Health, in turn, this method is not recommended for you - take care of your teeth).
And finally, the last and most extreme way to open a bottle. Place the bottle on the ground, squeeze it between your feet, start the chainsaw and carefully bring it to the neck until one of the teeth of the chain rips off the cap. After that, change your underwear and make sure everything else is in order too.
Opening a beer is not difficult for modern homo sapiens. But can you open it with your eye? No))) I'm sure. Then read on. . .
Instructions
Difficulty level: Difficult
1 step
It's hard for an alcoholic these days. Sometimes there is not enough money not only for a bottle, but also for matches. Beer containers are inexpensive. Therefore, when you finally saved enough for a bottle of beer, looking into your holey pocket, you notice that you don’t even have a lighter to open it. I’ve been missing my teeth for a long time now, but I can’t ask passers-by – for some reason everyone shy away just by looking at you. No problem! But your eyes are usually always with you, so you don’t have to look for the bottle opener.
Step 2
So, we feel the upper bone above the eye. Have you guessed why? That's right - having hooked the bottle cap onto it, without thinking, we make a sharp jerk with the bottle down. You may not succeed the first time, but with practice, you will be able to open bottles of any complexity very easily.
Step 3
Don't drink too much beer!
If you want to show off in front of your friends, then this method will do:
Hook the lid on the above-mentioned part of the skull. By tilting your head slightly down and making a grimace, pretend that you are trying with all your might to uncork the dance. At this time, use your tongue and teeth to make a hissing sound (like s-s-s-s-s). As a rule, the faint of heart faint at the sight of such a picture.
How to open a beer with a piece of paper
How to open beer by hand.
Steps
- First grab your beer bottle and place it in the middle of your hand.
- Then grab your skin on the lid and make sure it's nice and tight and won't fall off or else it will hurt.
- Then twist your hand and out comes the lid!
Hints
- Practice to get faster and eventually this habit will damage your hands.
Warnings
- You will cut your hands if you don't do it correctly.
- Make sure you have a Twist - Off the bottle!!
