Corkscrew-less
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Oft times have I been stranded far from civilization and its handy corkscrews with nothing to keep me company but an inaccessible bottle of wine.
Perhaps that is a bit of an exaggeration. I usually might have other corkscrew-less mates with me, and civilization was only as far as the house next door. Whether it is the threat of being judged as a lush or the belief that this was a task set by the gods to test ingenuity and self-reliance, no one is ever able to muster the courage to ask the neighbor’s for a corkscrew. Thus we resort to teeth, knives, door jambs and boomerangs. Respectively speaking, these methods only result in dental repair, wine splattered on ceilings, failure and shattered glass. And of course, sobriety.
Meet Chef Niall Harbison of the Food Mob. I can’t help but wonder how many experimental tool combinations this man went through to find the answers for us all, but he has my respect. The magic set includes: a wooden spoon and a tea cloth. Unless you want your white carpet to look like the scene of a crime, the rag and a tight grip will be crucial. Should you actually be out in the wild, I would suppose that a solid twig could be used in lieu of a spoon and the tea cloth won’t be so necessary to prevent wine splattering on the grass/desert sands/lifeboat.
(video: Revision3)
-Jamel Daugherty
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