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How to Save a Bottle of Spoiled Wine For Just 1 Penny

30/01/2018 - 05:49 PM

The all-too-common debate: you really want that glass of wine, but the bottle has clearly gone bad [1]. Instead of spending more money on a new bottle, you can save the spoiled wine for just a penny — with the penny itself, actually. According to the American Chemical Society, you should drop a penny (after thoroughly cleaning it, of course) into a glass of wine, stir it around, take it out, and voilà! Your bad wine should taste good.

This is all thanks to chemistry, of course. According to the informative video [2], the copper in the penny reacts to the thiol compounds (aka the stinky, sulfric smells of spoiled wine) and produces odorless copper sulfide crystals . . . who are we kidding, you don't need to understand the science to appreciate this tip!

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