to think you lot can help me break into my bottle of wine

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I bought a bottle of wine in Lidl with one of those squidgy, spongey rubbery corks in it. The corkscrew just slides out of it, gaining no traction whatsoever. Tried to shove cork into bottle to no avail. Not a budge on it.
Any ideas oh wise ones?
And if yis tell me to blooming google it lol, I'll need a bottle of vodka not wine!

What did you use to shove the Cork in? A stiletto is quite good.
DH says use a bigger Cork screw

Long wooden spoon - push it in.

THere's a shoe method that works.

Don't do the shoe thing, it makes the wine frothy. Heat up the neck of the bottle between the wine and the bottom of the cork. The cork should slide out

Electric screwdriver...works like a charm.

Heating the neck of the bottle below the cork with a lighter til cork pops out? Never tried it but looks the business!

Screw a screw in with a screwdriver then pull it out with your hammer like you would a nail. Voila!

Seconding the electric screwdriver method. Either that or get a metal skewer or sharp knife and just stab that cork like you're a bloody serial murderer. Not tidy but does the job.

I’ve used a board pen and frying pan to bang the cork into the bottle before...

I've used a teaspoon before - the handle end. Very carefully push the "cork" in with it.

Lighter on the neck of the bottle!

Blueemerald that post makes me want to be your friend. Can we hang out and drink board-pen-and-frying-pan wine?
If it helps, I pushed a cork in to a bottle with a knife and a shoe in a Greek ferry once.

If you do the 'viking' way you can do it with a domestic knife. The trick is to run it up the seam of the bottle and then slice the top off.

My friend and I had a similar predicament in a youth hostel years ago. There was no way the wine was not going to be drunk. We used a tea spoon to get down the side of the cork , wiggles it then levered the cork out. It was a lot of work but worth it!

I second the electic screw driver method, but have used a teaspoons handle in the past. Good luck!

Lilets work well for pushing the cork down.

Use the force

Jamie that’s genius!

Lol. I used the handle end of a metal knife to try to push down. I suppose I could use a hammer and the knife? Anyway, I've resorted to cans of Guinness here, so all suggestions will be tried out when I'm down to the last drop.

For the record, I mean brute force. Not the Star Wars kind.

Many of these methods would benefit from some force.

Wooden spoon, handle on the cork, bash the top of the spoon with a rolling pin has worked for me before.

There's always a way...

When I was a student we used a wooden spoon as outlined by PP. the trick is getting just the right amount of force so that you don’t lose lots of wine when the cork enters the bottle. We used to wrap to bottle in a tea towel and wedge it between our feet.

Happy days.

The danger with Lilets is the possibility they may absorb some of the wine.

Or is it only blue WKD they absorb? If it's red wine you should be fine.

It's sad I need to know which method op goes for...