TikTokers Just Taught the Entire Internet the 5 Easiest Ways to Open a Beer, Including With Car Doors, Tables, and Even Their Feet

Yes, you can saber a bottle of beer.

My least favorite movie trope involves opening a beer. You know, the one where a geeky, shy girl at a party sees her cool crush struggling to open a beer. She uncomfortably walks over, grabs the beer, and pops the top off with her back molar. Suddenly, she's cool.

Maybe it's less of a movie trope and more the plot of a Taylor Swift song, but there's a message: Opening a bottle of beer without a traditional opener awards a fair amount of clout. While one's teeth might seem like a suitable substitute, it's more likely to lead to a serious dental emergency than romance. Luckily, there are plenty of other ways to open a beer without an opener, but not all are created equal.

To survey the options, we took to TikTok, the place chronicling people doing things these days. Rico Soto, whose drinks-focused TikTok account has over 2.8M subscribers, shared a few surprising ways to open a beer without an opener.

His Tiktok got us thinking about all the unique ways to open a bottle of beer without an opener. Find our top five favorite methods below.

How to open a beer with your car door

The first was a total surprise but a smart innovation: Soto used the latch of a car door — the U-shaped thick metal ring fastened mid-way up the side of a car door that locks the door into place — much like a traditional beer bottle opener. While we can’t formally condone using anything related to your car for the purpose of drinking, the thick metal loop pulls off the crown cap with ease. The striker plate of a traditional door works too, but they are typically made out of thin metal, so you do risk damaging the functionality of your door.

How to open a beer with the edge of a table

Soto's next trick was one many know about already. He positioned a Corona Extra on the edge of a sturdy table and gave the bottle a good whack. While the top popped off in one go, a lot can go wrong here; the crimped edge of the cap can easily damage surfaces, or if you use too much force, the glass neck of the bottle might snap, so be cautious with this attempt.

How to open a beer using another beer

You can use another bottle of beer to help pry the top off of one, too. There are a few ways to do this: align the bottle tops so the bottom side of one meets the other, and apply pressure to one bottle to pop the cap off the other. In this instance, one TikToker warned people of using an entirely upside-down bottle as the opener since, on occasion, the wrong bottle gets opened, which leads to a mess of spilled beer.

Another (and much cooler-looking method) involves holding two bottles in your hand facing up and giving the bottles a little kick. The result looks effortless and impressive.

How to saber a bottle of beer

The last approach is an absolute showstopper and our personal favorite. Much like a bottle of Champagne, a bottle of beer has the perfect composition for sabering: it has a thin, tapered neck and is made of glass, which is fused together with a thin, lateral seam. Tapping the dull side of a butter knife along the seam of a beer bottle agitates the bubbles and creates enough pressure to help shoot the top of a beer bottle off when sliced. Depending on where you aim, you can take off just the crown cap or the entire top inch of a bottle like you would when sabering Champagne. This works on a variety of bottles, from slightly thicker-necked bottles to long and tall ones like that of a Corona.

For the best sabering results, get bottles nice and chilly. “Make the bottle very cold, preferably by submerging it for 30 minutes in a bucket filled with water and ice. Coldness makes the glass brittle and easier to break,” writes Mark Oldman.

While sabering takes plenty of practice and should be done with plenty of precaution (and somewhere with room for beer-top projectiles), it certainly has some panache. If you can get it right, this is a surefire way to the coolest party trick around.

Cracking open a bottle of beer without an opener will take some practice no matter how you do it, but save a trip to the dentist and try these out before popping a crown cap near your back molar — no matter how cool Hailey Beiber looked doing it on the Jimmy Fallon show in 2018.

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