Champagne is delicious, it is recognized by everyone, but its high risk factor is also recognized by everyone, after all, the plug is not opened well, it is a big weapon! Every year, someone gets injured by a flying stopper because of improper opening of the bottle.
The root cause of the accident comes from the pleasing bubbles sealed in the wine. Champagne, in particular, can produce up to 6 atmospheres of pressure in the bottle, and when we shake a bottle of champagne vigorously, the force generated when the cork flies out is 6.48 kilograms!
If this "heavy object" with nearly 13 pounds is quickly hit in the eyes, head and other parts, it is bound to cause great harm, I believe you should understand why I said that it may also become a murder weapon.
Therefore, as a qualified foodie, the correct method of opening the bottle must be carefully studied. The first is the safest way to open champagne.
How to open a bottle of champagne
1 | ice cold
Be sure to ice the sparkling wine thoroughly before opening.
This step directly determines the safety of the subsequent cork opening process, because the gas in the wine will be more stable at low temperatures, so it must not be possible to avoid trouble and ignore this step.
2| tear open the aluminum foil
Place the bottle on a smooth table top, paying attention to the amplitude of motion, and do not let the bottle shake violently. Usually the aluminum foil will have a circle of small holes in the neck, in order to facilitate the consumer to tear open.
3| Dry bottle
Find a dry cloth and dry the bottle and the bottle mouth to avoid slipping.
4| Unscrew the ring
First press the cork with one hand, and then use the other hand to unscrew the wire, generally the iron ring counterclockwise rotation of six and a half turns.
5| remove the iron ring
Carefully remove the unscrewed wire cap (you can also take it without taking it, go directly to the next step), the action should not affect the cork as much as possible, and press the cork with your thumb for the period before and after taking it away.
6| rotate the bottle
Gently pick up the bottle, tilting 45 degrees horizontally, taking care not to face the crowd. When opening the bottle, you must hold the stopper tightly, and you cannot rotate or twist, because what needs to be rotated here is the bottle body, and the cork must not be rashly moved.
7| open the bottle
Be vigilant when rotating, and increase the pressure of the grip if the cork has the intention of being slightly ejected by the gas.
When you feel the cork loose and the force pushing outward is enough to push the cork open, stop rotating, and the hand holding the cork slowly relaxes in the grip position, allowing the stopper to pop out on its own until the cork gently "poofs" out of the wine.
This gentle sound is also known as "the sigh of the noblewoman".
8| pour the wine
The next step is to pour the wine into the glass and enjoy the bubbles slowly.
If you are a classmate who craves the challenges of life, then there is also a strong way to recommend champagne knives to you.
How cool to cut champagne
It's also a very ritualistic way to open champagne. In the West, this method of opening champagne with a knife is still very popular during major celebrations or weddings. In the past, a saber was used to cut champagne, but later, for safety reasons, people made a safer mini champagne knife modeled on a saber.
The principle of opening champagne with a knife is actually very simple: the bottle body and the bottle mouth of champagne each have a weld, because the weld is more fragile, and the gas pressure of champagne is high, as long as the weld at the mouth of the bottle is slightly applied to the momentum, the bottle mouth will be broken along the ring seam.
The pre-work of using a champagne knife, such as ice, foil removal, and latte, is exactly the same as before, but be more careful with the cork, because when using the champagne knife, we no longer hold the cork with our hands, and the gentler movement can prevent it from "soaring" before you use the knife.
The next details are as follows:
1| find an open place.
2| If there is a groove in the bottom of the bottle, place your thumb in the groove and hold the bottle and tilt it 30 degrees upwards.
If there is no groove in the bottom of the bottle, hold the bottle by hand and tilt it 45 degrees upwards.
3| find the intersection of the seam line and the neck of the bottle.
Because this is the most vulnerable place, look at this cut!
4| cut a decisive knife.
It should be noted that we should cut instead of slashing, and the back of the knife should be level with the bottle body, and the outward force should be smooth and uniform along the arc of the bottleneck. Before that, you can also compare and familiarize yourself with the sliding trajectory of the champagne knife in the neck.
And then it's the perfect and handsome opening!
In this way, the entire bottle mouth is broken with a mushroom stopper. Affected by the pressure inside the bottle, the bottle mouth and the cork will rush out a certain distance, bring out a part of the wine, and wash away the bottle mouth debris.
Although this way of opening the bottle is so handsome that there are no friends, but generally we really don't want to take expensive wine to operate, because if we are not careful, it will become the scene of the "car accident".
There are people like this who haven't held the bottle steadily...
There is also this kind of one that holds the bottle steadily, but the whole bottle is chopped up...
Therefore, it is best to take some cheap sparkling wine to practice in the early stage.
If you have become an old driver, the champagne knife can not restrain you, after all, take the iPhone to open champagne this skilled way of driving is also there, and there are tutorials on the Internet, casually cut out of a paragraph is handsome out of the sky.
Of course, we still recommend that you use the first way to open champagne, after all, it is not only professional, but also safe.