Men don’t admit weaknesses.
Until today, I have never been asked to open a bottle of wine (for cooking of course!). This is a week of firsts. After a false start, I was able to complete my manly task.
You’ve heard the thing about a man sad that he has no shoes until he meets a man with no feet.
imagine opening a bottle of wine with no corkscrew, and no hands and no feet.
Here is a pix of the bottle of merlot fred opened for me.
The chicken cacciatore turned out just fine.
All’s well that ends well.
P.s. I took the pix all by myself with the new apple iphone number six that fred got me. (I also got a vinyl case thing for it. Pink, of course. ) The countess be dipping one toe — tentatively — into the 21st century.
[click on image to see it oriented correctly -ed.]
It probably wasn’t the intent, but this video gives me one of those moments: “There, but for the grace of God, go I”. I enjoy wine and not just for cooking. When you consider that even the automated wine bottle openers require a couple of fingers to operate – it gives you pause to consider things.
I am truly impressed that this gentleman appears happy and well-adjusted.
And obviously has a sense of humor. In the outtakes he points out the bottle had a screw on top 😉
The really easy way to open a bottle of wine if you can´t find a corkscrew is to push the cork into the wine with a screwdriver or similar kitchen instrument that is narrower than the hole in the wine bottle.
The Crazy Russian Hacker guy has an entertaining video on youtube
https://youtu.be/KFlzup4U7lg