Not having a bottle opener is an unpleasant situation. The owner of the house in which the party takes place is especially in an awkward position. It's annoying when the question of how to tear off the caps in beer bottles is completely out of sight. But the situation is fixable if you know how to open beer with a lighter.
Replacement bottle opener
An ordinary plastic lighter in capable hands is far from the worst tool for removing bottle caps than the opener itself. The lighter can be used as a lever. The exact same principle applies when using an opener.
Usually both hands are involved: one holds the container and the edge of the lighter under the removable lid, the second lid breaks off the neck.
What other ways are there?
In the absence of bottle openers and a lighter, the procedure for uncorking bottles can be performed using other, also very effective means:
- Door catch. A lid is placed in it. Gap presentsa small metal square that holds the doors in the closed position. When uncorking a beer, force is applied from below.
- Ring or signet.
- Unnecessary CD.
How easy is it to open a beer?
It is most convenient to use a lighter for this purpose. Not everyone wears a ring, and an old and unnecessary disk may not always be at hand. In such cases, a person wonders: how to open a bottle of beer? There are two ways to do this with a lighter:
- The lid can be torn off the neck.
- Possessing a certain technique, it can be skillfully pry.
How to open beer with a lighter by tearing off the cap?
This procedure consists of several steps:
- Take a bottle of beer in such a way that the hand is located closer to the neck. In this case, the index finger should cover almost the entire space around the cover. In order for the opening procedure to be completed faster, you need to press your finger as tightly as possible to the lid, and stick the lighter deeper under its edge.
- The thumb in this case is a support holding an impromptu opener under a removable beer cap. With the second hand, pressure is applied to the lighter, which acts as a lever. Force action must be carried out until the cap flies off.
What should be considered when tearing off the lid?
- Before you open the beer with a lighter, you need to place it correctlyregarding the bottle. Ideal for this method is the perpendicular position.
- The pressure should be smooth at first. Force is applied already at the end, when there is confidence that the impromptu opener will not slip out. It is important to hold the metal part of the lighter tightly. Using strong downward pressure, the cover is torn off.
- In order for the lighter to fit better under the edge of the lid, you need to push it with your finger under the edge of the neck.
- It is not recommended to perform this procedure with a rounded corner of the lighter. Better if it is a long plastic end.
- In some cases, the lid may be at an angle. With parallel pressure on the bottle, all the force is concentrated on the lighter.
Second way
The index finger is also used here, which performs the function of holding the neck of the bottle. This technique for removing covers differs from the first in some nuances. Before opening beer with a lighter using this technology, you must:
- Take a bottle with a tight girth, which should be at some distance from the person. In this case, the hand with the lighter should be slightly bent so that it forms the letter “e”. When moving the wrist with the bottle opener away from the bottle, the hand that holds it performs a slight twisting movement, which is necessary to tear the cap off the neck.
- The opener should be securely fixed in the fist. Most of it must be hidden in the hand. Uncorking occurs only with its edge.
- The lighter is placedparallel to the thumb. They are located on opposite sides of the bottle.
- The mouth of the bottle should be between the thumb and fingers.
- When opening, the movements of the hands should be carried out towards the bottle. One hand, located below, firmly holds the container, and the lighter, clamped in the fist, lowers its free end to the base of the bottle. Thus, the lighter is used as a small crowbar, which has a stop in the thumb area.
Some nuances
- Before opening a beer with a lighter, dry your hands and the bottle. This will prevent slipping. A tightly clamped container will not jump out of your hands.
- It is not uncommon for the lid to come off only half way. This happens if at the end of the procedure the movement was not sharp enough. In this case, it must be torn from the other side. To do this, just rotate the beer bottle 180 degrees.
- If the plastic base starts to slip out from under the teeth of the lid, the lighter has not gone deep enough. The process is considered ideal when, after opening, traces of the teeth of the cap remain on the plastic surface.
- If there is a feeling of tension when pulling off, then this indicates that the thumb is used ineffectively as an emphasis.
- It is not recommended to put too much pressure on the lighter. It is also undesirable to push it in the direction of the bottle.
- It is quite possible that the lid won't come off the first time. To strengthen herinteraction with the opener, the hand should be placed closer to the neck.
Such opening techniques are applicable not only to a plastic lighter. For this purpose, you can use any other item. The main thing is that it should not be metal, as this can cause cracking in the neck and injury to the lips.
