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Life’s biggest tease: endless amounts of beer without a bottle opener in sight. What do you do? Household Hackers has 6 different ways to open the beer without an opener and they all work really well.
The options they use:
- Counter Top
- A Key
- Another bottle
- A Dollar Bill
- A Drawer
- A Lighter
In my personal experience, I’ve found that a lighter works extremely well if you can find one. Trying to break the glass in hopes of salvaging some beer? Doesn’t work quite as well. [YouTube via Laughing Squid]
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I used to use my teeth, but the last time I did it I chip the corner off a tooth and it cost £45 to repair
The easiest way is to push the bottle top into your fore arm ( have you arm at a slight bend, then twist your arm/contract it.
Take note that this technique only works for twist tops. Doing it with a pry top will probably twist your skin off your arm and wrap it around the the bottle. Makes for nice meaty beer cooler, but gets you no closer to drinking it.
Gizmodo is 14.
I just hurl the bottle at the nearest wall and then squat down and lick the beer off the floor.
“Mmmm this must be that new glass shard and blood flavoured beer!”
I use a spoon if I can’t find a opener, quite easy really
I would use another bottle, you can even put the top back on an empty and use that.
The dollar bill technique looked good too.
I’ve used the combination of another bottle and finished it off with a hotel key before, took ages though. Googling “how to open a beer bottle without a bottle opener” came up with lots of different ways, including using a sheet of paper (I tried in desperation to free my precious German beer but failed)
Does anyone know why twist top caps haven’t taken off here*? Would putting a slight screw-thread on the lip of the bottle make much of an increase in the overall manufacturing cost?
The only ones I’ve seen are some of the little stubby bottles in Lidl (and bottles of Bavaria, but that was years ago).
*Aside from those pesky lobbyists that slap a bottle opener on everything
Once upon a time my mate Tom tried to open 4 bottles of beer at the same time with his teeth… One of the bottles slipped off his bottom tooth and ripped his gum all the way down.
True story.
I use my lighter constantly to open bottles. Always a little paranoid that one day I’ll chip through the plastic and get sprayed with lighter fluid. Or worse, my beer will get sprayed with lighter fluid
I was a bit lost for a while when I tried quitting smoking though
Also, I once cut my forhead open when doing this when an overly fizzy bottle of Crabbies shot the top at my face