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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:32 PM
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How do you open up a bottle of frozen champagne?
Last night I started cleaning out my refrigerator because something is wrong with it and I found a frozen bottle of Champagne in it.
I have been trying to uncork it for a while.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:33 PM
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1. Pee on it, it'll thaw
You're hopped up diuretics right?
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:35 PM
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5. LOL
I am using it as a diuretic as soon as I can pop the damn cork.
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Jack_Dawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:34 PM
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2. You don't. Put it in the sink
and come back in a few hours.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:35 PM
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6. ...or you could have that guy in your pic bite the top off
:think:
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:37 PM
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7. What guy?
I am still looking for a Valentine.
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Jack_Dawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:47 PM
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10. LOL - that happy Albanian?
Yeah some dental work may be in store for him...
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:48 PM
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11. He might come in handy
As a can opener.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:57 PM
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14. Not to say he isn't a nice guy or anything
but he could probably cut his own way out of a wrecked car.
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 05:12 PM
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15. He looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger
Same smile.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:34 PM
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3. You Don't
You are lucky that the bottle didn't break when the champagne froze and expanded. Put it in the refrigerator and let it thaw out for a day or two. Use caution--the bottle may still shatter!
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:38 PM
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8. I have tons of glass to clean out in the back of the refrigerator
Edited on Sat Jan-24-04 04:42 PM by Lostmessage
I had some Coronas in the back that busted and the turkey from thanksgiving was covering them up.
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 05:21 PM
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18. You still have your turkey from Thanksgiving in your fridge?!?!?
Ewwwwww! And how bad did that smell?
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 05:24 PM
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19. It was frozen
My back has been out and I haven't been able to bend down to check the bottom of the refrigerator out.
It wasn't a big turkey it was cut up on a plate. My refrigerator is freezing everything that I put in it and I have to have the management company come up to my apartment and fix it on Monday so I have to clean it out.
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 05:31 PM
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20. Hmm...
corarose, is that you? :hi:
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:35 PM
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4. Wait for it to thaw
If you get it open a little, the cork will pop out and it will explode an bubble out all over.
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:45 PM
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9. Can you heat the top up with a lighter?
I wish my coronas wouldn't have broken but what can you say. I have to clean my refrigerator out because it's broken.
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:49 PM
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12. You don't, put it in the fridge till it thaws. n/t
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:52 PM
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13. My refrigerator is broken so I can't put it back in
That's why I am cleaning it out it either freezes everything or it defrosts. I should have let it defrost but I was afraid that the food from thanksgiving would stink.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 05:17 PM
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16. Throw it out - it won't taste right
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Lostmessage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 05:19 PM
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17. I got it open a second ago
I am drinking it right now and it does taste kind of odd but it did the trick on the diuretic.
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 07:43 PM
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21. So, have you finished
the bottle yet? Are you tipsy?
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 07:47 PM
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22. Please spare us the details.
.
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burrowowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 07:49 PM
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23. The Champagne is ruined
Throw it out.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 08:15 PM
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24. Let it come to chill temperature first and then uncork as usual.
Whatever you do, don't stick it in the oven to unthaw, like a dumb friend of mine did once. :eyes:
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 08:17 PM
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25. All you would have needed
was a very, very sharp sword. :)
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