Hi, i bought a glass bottle containing milk from Asda - the brand is Dairy crest- and for the life of me I can't figure out how to open the bottle to extract the milk. Any help and ideas appreciated! Apologies for the idiotic question.
(neither end of the bottle says, 'open other end' so that's me stuffed)
Place bottle in deep freeze overnight next morning place bottle in bucket
Once thawed pass contents through a fine sieve
Using this method you can buy in bulk to save repeated trips to Asda
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:07:46 -0000, "TMC" mused:
Worth it I'd say, especially between 15-15 pm and 17-30, weekdays when it's "Chavse Centraal"
DG
Its funny you should mention that. I saw some of these in a shop in the north-east last week. It's been so long since I have seen this stuff I took a picture.
There's probably an NVQ available if you can sign up as a 'modern apprentice'.
In reality you can probably just break the neck of the bottle on the edge of the bar/kitchen worktop and glug the milk. Don't forget to wear the appropriate PPE, such as Totectors, chain-mail gloves, eyeshields (and of course a hard hat).
More seriously I'm trying to source a couple of 1 pint milk bottles of the shape used in the 1950s/60s, with a much shallower tapered neck than the current breed¹, to use as theatre props. I've even asked my milkman to look around in his travels, still without any joy.
Does anybody remember the ½ pint bottles? 'School milk' was in 1/3 pint ones, but ½ pints were quite scarce.
¹Yes, I know the 'current breed' seems to be either waxed cardboard or yucky grey translucent plastic, which I eschew, but I do mean the glass ones :-)
judging by the picture somebody posted, if that's what you have, they have a lid like on a beer bottle. So try a beer opener type thing
Maybe searching for open beer bottle in google video /youtube, will find some ways
eBay
There are Collectors 8-(
Ebay has quite a few from that era. or write to your local rag asking for help
Bro in law did that at a party with a beer bottle, and it shattered (no-one had the foresight to bring a bottle opener). Fortunately the party was at the A&E hospital, so repairs were at hand.
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Try your local Freecycle group?
The message from " snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk" contains these words:
recently. That at least was a screw cap in disguise.
bugger. I put a load in the recycling bin the other week after digging them up/removing them from the bushes in the garden! i didnt know there were collectors!
Tap the top gently with a hammer to break the glass, and then drink directly from the bottle. If you swallow any little bits of galss - don't worry - they will pass through you safely.
I've seen them at biodynamic dairies. There's one near Forest Row (E Grinstead/Turners Hill area)
be sterilised milk (foul stuff). From that ancient memory the bottles stood a good 15" high with a top the same size as beer bottle crown cork and the bottle itself gently tapered to full diameter of 2 to 3" over almost half its height.
Jeez don't be a wimp! Use your teeth.
I'm glad you said that, I didn't want to come across as un-PC ;) I was out and about so much last week I can't remember where I took the picture, possibly Newcastle or Grimsby. Places perhaps where domestic refrigeration has yet to reach
100 percent penetration. Or perhaps the inhabitants prefer the taste.
Obviously not one of Paddy's then cos his does say open other end
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