#Food Hacks Daily RSS Feed [keep-champagne-bubbly-hint-spoon-doesnt-work.1280x600.jpg] WonderHowTo [wonderhowto.logo.shadow.png] Food Hacks Daily WonderHowTo Gadget Hacks Next Reality Null Byte [wonderhowto.mark.png] (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) Drinks Frozen Desserts Halloween Beer Wine Tricks Cleaning Tips Ingredients 101 Food Clones R&D Molecular Gastronomy Sushi Hack That Shortcuts The Correct Way Weird Ingredients Food Tools Gadget Hacks Next Reality Null Byte The Secret Yumiverse Invisiverse MacGyverisms Lock Picking Mad Science Mind Hacks Driverless WonderHowTo (BUTTON) (BUTTON) ____________________ (Submit) Keep Champagne Bubbly (Hint: A Spoon Doesn't Work) A Spoon Doesn't Work) * By Karen Ahn * 5/23/14 5:19 PM Drinks WonderHowTo WonderHowTo One booze hack that's been making the rounds for years is that inserting a spoon by the handle in a champagne bottle's neck will preserve its carbonation. This is one of those tips that I wish were true. Champagne is a great thing to have around on a special occasion, and it seems a shame to pour any leftovers down the drain once its lost its fizz. How to Keep Champagne Bubbly (Hint: A Spoon Doesn't Work) Image via Not on the High Street While there's lots of anecdotal evidence surrounding this trick, Harold McGee and Stanford University chemist Richard Zare debunked this myth as did Mythbusters. McGee and Zare tested the hypothesis using bottles of California sparkling wine that had been left open as well as bottles that had been re-corked. Other bottles used either silver or stainless spoons in the neck. While the bottles holding spoons didn't appreciably hold more fizz than the other samples, the scientists discovered that the bottles that fared worse were the re-corked ones—and they're not really sure why. How to Keep Champagne Bubbly (Hint: A Spoon Doesn't Work) Image by K B/Wikimedia Commons However, food scientist and author of What Einstein Told His Cook Robert L. Wolke kindly points out that the scientists in the Stanford experiment probably couldn't focus on the data properly—most likely because they were tipsy from tasting the samples. In his opinion, re-corking or re-stopping the champagne bottle should prove effective, as long as the bottle hasn't been shaken, thus losing carbon dioxide. In other words? You can stick a spoon in your champagne, but chances are it won't fizz up the next day the way you were hoping. All a spoon is really good for is sabering the whole top off. The Two Things That Really Do Work Turns out, there are a couple of things you can do that really will help preserve champagne's fizz. Cold is a great preserver of carbon dioxide, especially in liquids. So if your champers starts out cold and stays that way, chances are that it will retain more bubbles. How to Keep Champagne Bubbly (Hint: A Spoon Doesn't Work) Image via Shutterstock Another way to make sure your champagne holds on to its bubbles? Buy good Champagne—not sparkling wine from California, nor Italian prosecco, nor Spanish cava. While those three wines are delicious and bubbly, they can't officially be called champagne because they don't come from the Champagne region of France and are not created according to the extensive rules and guides extant for creating the beverage champagne. Robert L. Wolke explains why Champagne rules above all: "In order for a dissolved gas to escape from a liquid, the gas molecules must have a microscopic speck of material (a nucleation site) upon which to congregate until there are enough of them to form a bubble. The main reason that true Champagne stays bubbly longer is that it is extremely clear and speck-free." How to Keep Champagne Bubbly (Hint: A Spoon Doesn't Work) Image via Discovery However, if you don't have a Champagne budget, you can look for sparkling wines that bear the words méthode Champenoise, which means they produced their wine according to the rules official Champagne vintners use, though they still can't legally call themselves champagne. How to Keep Champagne Bubbly (Hint: A Spoon Doesn't Work) Image via Packaging of the World What to Do with Leftover Flat Champagne What if, despite your best efforts, you end up with a bottle of champagne whose bubbles have gone flat? Never fear, there are many tasty recipes that can be made with your leftover bottle. In fact, you can use champagne much as you would any white wine in a recipe. It does wonders with mussels and fish when cooked into a sauce. 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