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Wine Corks


DanCole42

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I had a great collection going--a bucket-ful. My husband persuaded me to throw them away. When I was in L.A. last Spring, I went to a gallery in Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, and saw chairs made out of wine corks that had been drilled and wired together. Big, easy chairs made completely out of thousands of wine corks each. And I've got to tell you, they were extremely comfortable. And extremely expensive. I can't even conceive of how much time it took to make one, or how the artist had acquired all those corks.

Didn't I read that someone built an entire boat out of wine corks?

Got a few years with nothing else to do? :)

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Cut a bit of the height down so that one fits VERY snugly under the handle of an All Clad pot lid. This allows you to pick up the lids by the cork instead of the handles which get hot. They shrink up a little when you wash them, so that's why you want a tight fit to start with.

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Cut a bit of the height down so that one fits VERY snugly under the handle of an All Clad pot lid. This allows you to pick up the lids by the cork instead of the handles which get hot. They shrink up a little when you wash them, so that's why you want a tight fit to start with.

Cool idea. This is way better than that crap that lunatic Heloise puts out. :)

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For some reason (OCD?), I've been stockpiling wine corks. I have two 1-gallon ZipLoc bags filled to bursting. Does anyone know of a USE for them?

I've thought about tossing some on the coals on my grill as smoking agents. Any ideas?

I gave up hoarding these last year. What I do now is keep them near the fireplace. I use them to start fires and rejuvenate sputtering/dying fires. They work great!
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