How To Open Bottles Of Champagne With A Sword
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How To Open Bottles Of Champagne With A Sword
Learn how to open a bottle of champagne the cavalry way. Designed to impress and not for the faint of heart. A real crowd-pleaser that will totally amaze an audience!!
Step 1: You will need
Step 2: Prepare the champagne
Make sure you use chilled champagne that has not been shaken.
Top tip: Unless you're loaded, you may want to practice on a cheap bottle of champagne or cava before attempting this on your favourite vintage. Captain Campbell-Jones is an expert so he doesn't have to.
Take the bottle from the ice bucket and remove any moisture with a napkin.
Holding the bottle firmly, peel away the foil and carefully remove the cage.
Step 3: Locate the crease
As with all enemies even a bottle of champagne has an Achilles heal. This is called the crease. It's the seam that joins the two halves of the bottle together and is at it's weakest where it meets the lip. This is where you need to strike.
Step 4: Select your weapon
A short heavy metal sword is ideal but most swords will work. You will not be using the cutting edge so for safety it's better that the sword is blunt.
Step 5: Take aim
The cork and top of the bottle will fly off with quite some force so choose your trajectory carefully and never point the top of the bottle at your audience.
Step 6: Sword at the ready
Hold the bottle firmly and parallel to the floor.
Grip the swords handle and place the flat side of the blade horizontally against the side of the bottle with the blunt end facing the cork.
Make sure that the blade is at a right angle with the neck of the bottle so that as much of it's surface will hit the lip as possible.
Step 7: Fire!
Slide the sword along the bottle to get a feel for the movement. When you are ready and in one firm, fluid movement slide the blade up the bottle's neck so it connects with the lip at the point of the crease. The cork and the top of the bottle should fly out.
Step 8: Spill
Allow some champagne to gush out before you return it to the vertical position so that any shards of glass are washed away.
Step 9: Pour
All the glass should have been removed but after you have poured the champagne hold it up to the light to check for any stray pieces.
Do not touch the top of the bottle there may be some very sharp edges.
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Tips & Comments
Tip: it can be done with a knife instead of a sword (even a fork ^.^) and with cider instead of Champagne (cidre "brut" of course).
That guys grin at the beginning is awesome - you go sword boy!
how do u keep the cork from flying out when you remove the cage?
come on people enough with the corkscrew thing, you cant really be that ignorant,can you??
I first saw this done when being welcomed as an honorary member of the Gendarmerie of Grasse, France. Added a very nice bit of pomp to the celebration. That's the point of it -- to embellish the event and it does that excellently!
lol, I love the internet. RETARDED! lol. Well, it might be useless, but come on. Corkscrews are boring as hell.
Step 8: Spill Allow some champagne to gush out before you return it to the vertical position so that any shards of glass are washed away. Tried it, loved it. It was a great conversation starter and it's good to have something to do with my swords while my guests are there. Dueling people might not be a good idea in an apartment. Some party crasher was razzing me "hey, can you do anything with those swords or just look at them?" and i reminded him i was in sword fighting classes, but he interrupted, "show us a trick... if you can." So i took the champagne bottle my friends had gotten me as a home warming present and to celebrate that we all passed out classes. So i did this trick and the party crasher had to shut up. It was great. No glass in the cubs and so long as you do it over tile there's little cleanup, i tossed towel down on the floor. Another friend caught the top and everyone cheered.
very good method to drink glass.
Okay, lets clear this up right now. You DO NOT open champagne with a corkscrew. Sword or not sword, you still don't use a corkscrew. Morons!
Um, You guys opening champagne with corkscrews?? May as well be using swords