Spoon keeps the fizz!

[matt21]

The old wives tale of putting a spoon in a open bottle of sparkling wine to keep the fizz works? How?!

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matt21 said:

The old wives tale of putting a spoon in a open bottle of sparkling wine to keep the fizz works? How?!

It doesn't.

[CatherineJ]

It has usually for me, but I have no idea how it works.

[Psychobert]

Only way I know to treat fzz is to drink it before it gets warm and flat..

[Mobile Chicane]

Get one of those champagne saver things which clamps over the neck of the bottle.

[TheEnd]

2 bottles tested by a couple of winos
http://www.gotravel24.com/theme/feature-focus/spoo...

Spoon works


10 bottles tested by Stamford University
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/94/941221Arc4008.html

Doesn't work.

[Don]

Mobile Chicane said:

Get one of those champagne saver things which clamps over the neck of the bottle.

This.

The next best thing to necking the lot.

But it only lasts a few hours. By the next day it's gone...

[matt21]

I can't agree that it doesn't work - tried it last night and it did work!

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matt21 said:

I can't agree that it doesn't work - tried it last night and it did work!

Yeah, but try it without - very little difference.

[matt21]

Smiler. said:

matt21 said:

I can't agree that it doesn't work - tried it last night and it did work!

Yeah, but try it without - very little difference.

maybe..but without trying to sound to pedantic, that implies that there is some difference, and I cannot understand why?

[odyssey2200]

That Myth was

[TheEnd]

It seems people are comparing corked to spoon, and spoon wins.
Or worse, comparing spooned to what they think it'll be like.

In reality, it seems to be corked vs uncorked that is the real difference.

[odyssey2200]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdHDtx71PhA


HTH

[ali_kat]

You leave it long enough to lose the fizz?

[Mobile Chicane]

ali_kat said:

You leave it long enough to lose the fizz?

Well, quite.