It seems that TikTok, the world’s most popular short video social network, is dedicated to finding us trouble wherever we go, including unnecessary risks that go viral and can put us in more than one compromise.
We already told you back in the day that putting milk in a coffee pot was not only stupid, but also dangerous, but today we’re back to our old ways with another ‘hack‘ that is circulating and that also entails danger: open a bottle of wine with a hair straightener.
Apparently harmless and, a priori, useful, this trick published by the user fondon97 allows you to open a bottle of wine in just a few seconds by putting a hair straightener around its neck, making the cork pop without too much effort.
It may seem like a handy trick (although for this you have to have a hair straightener and a plugwhich seems more complicated than having a corkscrew), and the social network has valued it as such, since it has been shared almost 30,000 times and close to 240,000 likes.
Unfortunately, it is a trick that can be dangerous —even though FonDon97 did not go wrong this time— and that can mean bursting the bottle and the fault, as is evident, lies with the glass of the bottle.
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Glass is a poor conductor of heat., which we might think is an advantage for opening the wine, since we will get the rest of the bottle not to heat up, but only the neck. The problem is that this heat that does not spread to the rest of the structure increases the risk of thermal shock failure due to the rapid and sudden change in temperature.
Let’s keep in mind that a hair straightener it can reach 200 ºC very easilyso we would be subjecting a bottle that we could take out of the fridge at five or six degrees to a contrast that can burst its neck.
To understand what thermal shock rupture is, let’s think about the moment we add ice to a hot drink and hear how it cracks. This is because the outside temperature warms up much faster than the inside, which it would be the same as would happen with the bottle of wine and what could mean that it bursts in our hands.
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So, please, do not try it in your houses and if you have the need to find a makeshift corkscrew Take a look at this report where we tell you the seven best ways to open a bottle of wine when you don’t have a corkscrew.
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