How do you open a bottle?

I can open a bottle in two ways that I have learned during a party that I attended with high school classmates and one during a birthday party of a classmate of mine during college. The first one is similar to yours, to place the cap still attached on the bottle on any ledge or at the edge of a table.. then you hit it with your other hand. Got use to it quickly but it leaves dents or marks on the ledge or edge of the table that you tried to open the bottle with. The other would would be using another unopened bottle. It much more easier when illustrated or even demonstrated but I'll try anyway: with your left hand holding the neck of the bottle you intend to open, cap visible, you use the other unopened bottle as leverage by placing its cap underneath the bottle's cap that you want to upon, along your thumb I suppose.. but the image I provided goes along the index finger..

try running cold water over the lid if not take a wrench or a tool to help

like a soda bottle cap? bull nose pliers.you can force it right off without breaking the bottle.the counter trick works sometimes,but there's always one you don't have a lip on.

with a twenty five cent opener, mygoodness they arent that'espensive I have three or four came free with something. go to a dollar store and get a cheapie they work just as well as any expensive one and you dont take a chance of breaking a bottle or bending a spoon or anything else like that.

I have a can opener which has abit on the top for opening bottles. I dont often open bottles unless i fancy a drink as I'm not much of a drinker but its always handy to have in the house. My BF has a bottle opener attached to his keys as he works in a bar and is easier for him to use his bottle opener than the ones that is attached to the bar especially if there is a party on and its mega busy!!

hey as a kid i grew up watching my old pop doin to hitting it hard on the counter and making the lid pop out.. that's tricky the first few times you try it because of the fear of breaking it.. but once you get the hang of it pretty soon you will be popping lids like tossing coins...

I just give the bottle to my husband, and let him deal with it. I don't do this because I'm a "girl," I do this because I have some problems with the joints in my fingers that give me trouble gripping things, so jars and bottles that i need to open with my hands are usually passed onto him after a few tries.

depende, plstic bottle or glass, but not is a problem..... myryam

well, we do have bottle openers so i don't find problems in opening bottles. aside from that sometimes caps been popping out eveywhere in the house. im trying to be careful now anyway. good luck and happy mylotting!

I always tap mine on the counter top. I have never had one break on me. (knock on wood). I have heard of running water over it. but i've never tried that.

Not that much. If I have a hard time opening one, I will take a dry cloth and tighten it up with it. Sometimes, I will hit the bottle on the end of it and then open it up. This is supposed to loosen the tightness of the cap up. Most of my bottles that I drink out of has easy to open caps. I really don't buy the hard to open bottles.

If it is too stiff then I would get a better grip by holding the cap/lid with a tea-towel. If not then I yell for my husband. It makes him feel good when he is useful, even in small ways. Big strong man to the rescue to help damsel in distress!

Well, you can use a bottle opener, which is kind of like a mousepad, and it will grip it and open it. I like to just tough it out and try to get it open by myself, because it feels like a huge accomplishment!

I use a metal spoon . Just slide it up under the lid and pry it all the way around or until you hear the seal pop. Then it it will come right off!

Depends what kind of bottle you're talking about. For most bottles or jars an old trick is to put the top of the bottle or jar under hot running water....it tends to loosen the cap/top and you can twist it open fairly easy then. Sometimes what I do to is carefully run a knife around that perforated sealed area to cut through the peroration...Another trick..LOL...if the bottle top is small enough, place the top of it between a open door, then close the door on the top and twist. I don't have a bottle top opener either, so these are the tricks that seem to work for me

Hit it on the counter. I started using that after I tried prying it open with a screwdriver and almost took my eye out.