Northern Winos!!!

[Joanie]

I've been thinking of you this evening. Yesterday I bought one of those razor blade scraper things that you rave about. It came with 5 single-edged blades. Today at work a friend gave me a dozen wine bottles so I thought I'd give the new scraper a try. Three of the bottles were mine. (I love getting my own bottles back! The glue stick just washes off in a little warm water!) I filled the others with hot water and put them in a sink with more hot water and left them to soak for a bit. I pulled off the label parts I could then started with the scraper. I remembered your sound advice to get the blade under the edge of the label and to go around the bottle not up and down. I tried that and nothing much happened but I chalked that up to my impatience. I eventually got most of the labels off but was kind of underwhelmed with the scraper. I just now left the last few stubborn ones more time to soak. I looked at the scraper and wondered how to change the blade safely so checked the package directions, checked the scraper, and realized it didn't have a blade in it!

No wonder it didn't work as expected! Yep! Feeling mighty dumb!

 

[Wade E]

Joan, were you even holding the right side against the bottle? Just kidding, you know I love ya!

 

[PolishWineP]

Oh dear!

We needed a good laugh! Bert called me in to read this!

You poor thing. Those darned instructions! Good thing you didn't toss them!

 

[OilnH2O]

That's a wonderful story, Joan! Now, hopefully it won't be a similar result WITH the blade!

 

[grapeman]

I thought maybe you hadn't pushed the blade out from inside it when you said it didn't work! That's hilarious

 

[pizz65]

Thats a good one joan

 

[NorthernWinos]

Oh Oh!!!.....You know...I think I done the same thing on the glass top range when I first got it...

New blades are a real bonus.

Thanks for sharing.....

 

[K&GB]

Joan,


It takes a brave soul to post a confession like that. Thanks for the laughter. We all need it. Cheers!


Ken

 

[Waldo]

Joan..."WHAT COLOR IS YOUR HAIR?"

 

[Joanie]

Neither brave nor blonde ! I chalk it up to age, failing eyesight, (I usually use my $1 "cheaters" from Target but didn't last night!) and being okay with admitting I've screwed up when I have.

NW, I can't believe you said you have done the same thing. I don't know if you have but it wouldn't surprise me if you said it to make me feel better. That's exactly the kind of person you are and why I feel privileged to call you my friend.

Now as for the rest of you...

I'm glad I could put smiles on your faces!

Have an exquisite day everyone!!

 

[rrawhide]

Morn'n

I bet we all have a story 'similar' to this AND they will all make us shake our head in wonder - THANX JOAN - for sharing yours. Maybe someone should write a book on 'winemakers boo-boos' Would make for fun reading with lots of giggles for sure.

Maybe George could start a thread in the forum titled:

WINEMAKER WHOOPS!!!

HAVE A GREAT DAY ALL

rrawhide

 

[Wade E]

Besides my few volcanoes the only thing that comes to me at this minute is when I went to shake out the sanitizer from my wine thief by whipping it to & fro and forgot that the hydrometer was still in there. That thing shot across the whole basement and exploded into 1000's of pcs. when it hit the block wall like a missile. Of course that was when I only had 1 hydrometer and needed to use it to start my wine.

 

[NorthernWinos]

Joan...I ready did start scraping the stove without a blade in the scraper..I got the sound of the finger nails on the chalk board....so didn't do too much before I figured it out.

More than once I have put the handle end of the stirring spoon into a carboy to stir in some Super-Kleer into the wine and forgot about the 'displacement-factor' and overflowed a carboy. Just have to remember to remove more wine before stirring that way.

 

[rgecaprock]

Joan,


That is almost as bad as when I made Iced Tea out of K meta solution!!! I even had a skull and cross bones on the jug of solution. Wasn't paying attention!!!


Ramona

 

[uavwmn]

Joan, what a great story!!! I personnally use a xacto knife and I go from top to bottom. Goes fast for me. Then I soak them in the "Straight-A" solution and MOST of the time the glue comes off. Some of them the glue actually gets gooey-er. Those I toss.

But I am a fan of the xacto knife.

And it does go better with a blade in it. hahahaha

 

[Wade E]

I typically use the scraper and blade the labels off vertically unless I have a lot to do.and then I tub them with Straight A cleanser. I now have 3 big loads that filled my bathtub 3 times and the last batch is still soaking. Doing it this way is much easier with most bottles but makes it tougher on the few that dont fall right off. I am stubborn so I dont throw any bottles out so I just let those dry and blade them like I typically do when I only grab 10-15 at a time.