How to Open a Beer with Paper - CHOW Tip

CHOW copyeditor Keith Laidlaw shares a technique for opening a bottle of beer with a piece of paper. It's all a matter of leverage (and folding).

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Another way to open a bottle of beer, when you're stuck without an opener, is to use a sheet of paper. First, you fold the paper in half. Then turn it, fold it in half again and keep folding it in half, in the same direction, until you can't fold it anymore. And fold it one more time, along its length, to create a hard edge and place that hard edge under the edge of the cap, using the rest to lever, and pop it off. This technique might take a little bit of practice and you probably won't be able to use the same piece of paper more than once or twice.

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[rissarassa]

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[rufusANDralph]

alright now where's the video on how to stop my hand from bleeding profusely?

[Vijay Joseph]

Good now give me the drink

[92hercegovac]

lord of the rings :P

[Hannah Berthelot]

Yeah, I got shredded paper and a shredded hand

[MrDemonicDan]

Sounds Scottish, probably North-East Scottish regional (to my Scottish ears at least)

[mafino]

is this a Scottish or a northern irish accent?

[Cavello idgaf]

i dont need paper i use my thumb

[ciumoiucucaca]

honestly now, try open any eastern European country's beer bottles like that and all u got is epic fail, a plastic lighter only works ones, if u get the right position

[dsschaapable]

use fire lighter for that...

[Vic Rattlehead]

little bit practice? i got it on first try :D