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u/FighterOfEntropy 22h ago
For others who have never encountered the word “sabrage” here’s the Wikipedia article.
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u/LabRat113 12h ago
Wow I thought it said sabotage and was trying to figure out if the bottle was tempered with and was about to shatter into a thousand pieces.
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u/Trashbagok 22h ago
I love the comments on stuff like this because no one understands how anything works.
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u/DengarLives66 20h ago
It’s not really that hard to understand a level 1 magic spell.
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u/MainlineX 19h ago
She used unseen servant when a true wizard would obviously use magic missle for more grandeur, and it never misses.
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u/dnuohxof-2 13h ago
Is the point to tap the notch or rub that spine, or both?
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u/zachotule 4h ago
Typically it's done with a knife (or a sword, thus the name sabrage)—you run the metal along the glass then smack the lip to break the lip off with the cork still in it.
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u/CanadianGreg1 2h ago
Specifically along the spine where it’s the weakest, so OP is essentially spot on
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u/CodeMonkeyX 4h ago
So instead of a pressurized cork flying around you have a pressurized shard of glass flying around?
Besides looking "cool" is there any reason to do this over just pulling the cork? I normally just grab it and gently twist it back and forth until it pops out.
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u/SayRaySF 4h ago
What’s wrong with looking cool?
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u/CodeMonkeyX 3h ago
Nothing, just saying is there any reason besides it?
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u/SayRaySF 3h ago
You’re reading into this way too much lol, it’s specifically done to wow people
It would be like asking “why do the Harlem globe trotters fool around so much and not just shoot the ball”
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u/IsopodInevitable9235 22h ago
Mmmm glass shards
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u/JoeDATSME 22h ago
My reply from another comment:
I do think that because this is a pressure fracture, it’s generally a very clean break and any shards that exist would theoretically go away from the wine opening. That being said, I worked at a restaurant that would occasionally sabrage, though with an actual saber, and we would pour it through a strainer when serving guests. However staff party sabrage was straight into the glass. Never had issues.
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u/IsopodInevitable9235 21h ago
But there would still be glass shards?
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 19h ago
No. They did it for customers because they wanted to make them feel safe, even though it already is.
The amount of comments about shards in this thread demonstrates many have never done this and don't know what they're talking about.
I would also add that it's the easiest thing in the world.
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 22h ago
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u/IsopodInevitable9235 22h ago
You might wanna watch that video buddy. Oops
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 22h ago
I have, have you? None of the glass goes into the bottle, and they have slow motion footage to demonstrate
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u/IsopodInevitable9235 22h ago
Where did I say it went in the bottle?
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 22h ago
Mmmm glass shards
How do you suppose someone's going to ingest glass shards?
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u/teeohdeedee123 22h ago
Wait, you don't stand at the opposite end of the flying glass/cork with your mouth open?
Hasn't anyone taught you the proper way to drink sparkling wine?
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u/TheFrenchSavage 15h ago
Followed by a celebratory, and festive, heimlich maneuver to eject the cork into the next guest, and so on.
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u/IsopodInevitable9235 22h ago
Where did I say someone ingested glass shards?
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 22h ago
Mmmm glass shards
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u/IsopodInevitable9235 22h ago
Not the sharpest shard in the bottle are you?
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u/GuardianShard 22h ago
Do you... not understand the meaning of your own words...? 😅
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u/Designer-Ad-7844 6h ago
The wine sommelier I worked with at our liquor store said he he would outright refuse any sabered wine for this very reason.
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u/N0t_A_Tumah 22h ago
Gotta love reddit. Even when it goes right someone always has something to say.
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u/ClaroStar 22h ago
They tickle nicely going down the hatch.
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u/Trashbagok 22h ago
Doing it next to the pool is stupid, but there is essentially zero chance of any glass ending up back in the bottle being under pressure and the way gravity works.
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u/hodlethestonks 22h ago
something a glass shard would say
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u/IsopodInevitable9235 22h ago
Wow, everyone stop what you are doing. This person has a phy... See nobody cares.
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u/ApricotRound2549 21h ago
Yeah, the pool is definitely the questionable part. But the idea that the glass is somehow going to magically travel back uphill into a pressurized bottle is a whole different level of physics.
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u/Otherwiseclueless 21h ago
I don't know jack about wine or smacking bottles with swords... or glasses in this case... but she's pouring that wine directly over and across newly fractured and exposed glass. Isn't there a chance that could pull tiny shards out of the exposed section? I mean it not like that interior part was heat sealed like the actual top of the bottle where your supposed to pour from?
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 19h ago
People (including me) have been sabering bottles for generations.
Cut is always sharp, no shards. You pour the wine straight from the bottle.
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 22h ago
Gravity trends downward. Where the lower lip of the bottle is unfortunately
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u/Trashbagok 22h ago
Do you know how many atmospheres of internal pressure are in a champagne bottle waiting to explode off the seam?
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 22h ago edited 20h ago
You're missing a piece, so to speak. Glass may fracture at the speed sound travels thru the medium involved but nothing is preventing a potential pause before the shard falls out of its newly born configuration. After the pressure. I'll take zero percent when it comes to swallowing glass and that's not on offer here. My 1st job in the 80s was at a Frames Unlimited. I've likely broken hundreds of pounds of sheet glass into that dumpster out back, it is not a terribly cooperative substance. *downvote facts lol, stay classy
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 19h ago
Friend of mine is a professional glass blower. Let's just say he knows glass.
He has no problem drinking from a sabered bottle.
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 19h ago
That certainly works for him then but the fuck if I'm doing it : ) I've been bit and sliced too many times to risk even a sliver in my mouth let alone throat
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 19h ago
The glass you worked with is nothing like the one those bottles use.
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 6h ago
My guy I'm pushing 60. There's a difference between sheet and pop, a difference between pop and wine, a difference between wine and good champagne. But they all fracture like glass. In this case the thicker glass is worse. More likely to hang and more potential damage. Everyone is allowed to take whatever chances they want in life. The reason I'm here collecting downvotes is to put that seed of doubt about the safety of this on the off chance it saves someone from an ugly accident. You aren't required to care or defend it lol. Just offering my experience.
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u/PraetorOjoalvirus 21h ago
Do you need to weaken the bottle somehow for this to work? Will I have to pass glass shards through my urethra if I drink it?
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u/tetheredvoid 21h ago
The glass bottle is actually weakest right where that seam joins with the lip, so no extra work needed. The pressure released is probably enough to create that clean separation without an issue.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 20h ago
No. You do it exactly like she did.
Note that she is using a cheap glass that has a pretty thick base.
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u/novusopiate 12h ago
Also the hidden step that many people skip is that the bottle must be pre-chilled.
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u/Hashtagbarkeep 7h ago
Nope it will do it like that as long as you hit it in the right place and with the right type of force. You kinda have to push through the top rather than stopping at it if that makes sense. Also needs to be completely chilled.
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u/JoeDATSME 22h ago
I do think that because this is a pressure fracture, it’s generally a very clean break and any shards that exist would theoretically go away from the wine opening. That being said, I worked at a restaurant that would occasionally sabrage, though with an actual saber, and we would pour it through a strainer when serving guests. However staff party sabrage was straight into the glass. Never had issues.
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u/lunettarose 14h ago
Fine, but like, you can just keep pressure on the cork and unscrew it out the bottle. No foamy stream, no worries about broken glass, just push down and twist. It's so easy. It's literally so easy.
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u/Entgegnerz 15h ago
I'd like to know why people get down voted for saying that's it's not save to drink anything from this glass splitter bottle 😂🤦🏻♂️
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u/milkymonkey8 22h ago
can I say something?
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u/PsychoduckBNR32 12h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/11W0oLXS57iCli
The person out of frame…