Products I wholeheartedly endorse - Page 27

glatt · 01-07-2011, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

IT's just too dusty with all the charcoal ash to grill indoors, plus it makes us all get very flushed in the face.

If you take a couple of Motrin before you fire it up, it helps with the headaches.

footfootfoot · 01-07-2011, 01:06 PM

Nirvana · 01-07-2011, 01:55 PM

These pretzels are making me thirsty ... er I mean this thread is making me hungry!

Shawnee123 · 01-07-2011, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Nirvana

These pretzels are making me thirsty ... er I mean this thread is making me hungry!

The entire Cellar is on a roll today!

We say that at my family get togethers all the time, about the pretzels.

wolf · 01-07-2011, 03:16 PM

Wine Opening Brilliance

Undertoad · 01-07-2011, 03:23 PM

$5.99 version probably doesn't work exactly as well

Shawnee123 · 01-07-2011, 03:24 PM

Oooh, I think those are hard to use. When I waitressed at the country club I used the regular "key" for opening wine. Otherwise I'd be standing there like an idiot, grunting and pulling. I'd have to sit on the floor and hold the bottle with my feet as I tried to disengage the cork. When said cork came free I'd probably fly across the room.

(Otherwise I'd be standing there like an idiot, grunting and pulling.) Oh my, that doesn't sound very professional.

Pico and ME · 01-07-2011, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

...Otherwise I'd be standing there like an idiot, grunting and pulling. I'd have to sit on the floor and hold the bottle with my feet as I tried to disengage the cork...

Oh God, me too!

glatt · 01-07-2011, 03:54 PM

I use one of those cork screws with the arms that are up in the air and then you pull down on them to lever the cork out. It might take 2 extra seconds, but no brute force needed. Very civilized.

Pico and ME · 01-07-2011, 03:54 PM

That one is my saving grace, too.

Shawnee123 · 01-07-2011, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

I use one of those cork screws with the arms that are up in the air and then you pull down on them to lever the cork out. It might take 2 extra seconds, but no brute force needed. Very civilized.

Those are really easy to use, and I used them at the neighborhood bar, but we weren't allowed to use them at the Cuntry Club. Not dignified enough, I guess. They like grunting and pulling from their servants.

glatt · 01-07-2011, 04:09 PM

I stopped using the grunting kind of corkscrew after learning from a mistake in my teenage years.

I was soaking a bunch of wine bottles to get the labels off of them. I was saving all these labels as souvenirs of our time in Germany and all the wines we drank. Somebody had put the cork back into one of the bottles, and it wouldn't sink into the bathroom sink. It just floated at the top.

So I got a regular corkscrew and started pulling the cork out. When you are pulling a cork out, you have one arm pulling on the bottle and the other arm pulling on the cork. They cancel each other out until the cork breaks free. If you aren't bracing the bottle against something, it swings suddenly down and smashes apart the porcelain sink. And the cork is just fine, safely contained on the corkscrew in your hand. Your parent's aren't too happy with you, because they have a hard enough time in a foreign country ordering cold cuts at the supermarket, let alone finding a plumbing supply place and finding the exact model of sink needed to match the other sink in the two sink bathroom.

Shawnee123 · 01-07-2011, 04:13 PM

You're lucky you didn't cut your arm off!

Great story.

HungLikeJesus · 01-07-2011, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

$5.99 version probably doesn't work exactly as well

AH-SO Cork Puller - the name sounds like a Chinese insulting.

wolf · 01-08-2011, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

$5.99 version probably doesn't work exactly as well

Actually, I have the cheap one. I aspire to the Williams Sonoma version. But I have to break the cheap one first.

Simplest cork puller ever to use, never breaks the cork. Rock in, twist out.

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01-07-2011, 03:24 PM	#397
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Oooh, I think those are hard to use. When I waitressed at the country club I used the regular "key" for opening wine. Otherwise I'd be standing there like an idiot, grunting and pulling. I'd have to sit on the floor and hold the bottle with my feet as I tried to disengage the cork. When said cork came free I'd probably fly across the room. (Otherwise I'd be standing there like an idiot, grunting and pulling.) Oh my, that doesn't sound very professional. Attached Images __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

01-07-2011, 03:54 PM	#399
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I use one of those cork screws with the arms that are up in the air and then you pull down on them to lever the cork out. It might take 2 extra seconds, but no brute force needed. Very civilized. Attached Images

01-07-2011, 03:23 PM	#396
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	$5.99 version probably doesn't work exactly as well

01-07-2011, 03:54 PM	#400
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	That one is my saving grace, too.

01-07-2011, 04:09 PM	#402
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I stopped using the grunting kind of corkscrew after learning from a mistake in my teenage years. I was soaking a bunch of wine bottles to get the labels off of them. I was saving all these labels as souvenirs of our time in Germany and all the wines we drank. Somebody had put the cork back into one of the bottles, and it wouldn't sink into the bathroom sink. It just floated at the top. So I got a regular corkscrew and started pulling the cork out. When you are pulling a cork out, you have one arm pulling on the bottle and the other arm pulling on the cork. They cancel each other out until the cork breaks free. If you aren't bracing the bottle against something, it swings suddenly down and smashes apart the porcelain sink. And the cork is just fine, safely contained on the corkscrew in your hand. Your parent's aren't too happy with you, because they have a hard enough time in a foreign country ordering cold cuts at the supermarket, let alone finding a plumbing supply place and finding the exact model of sink needed to match the other sink in the two sink bathroom.

01-07-2011, 04:13 PM	#403
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	You're lucky you didn't cut your arm off! Great story. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

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