Everyone must anwer this!!- Wine and dining

[thearchitect]

Hey! I am just about to design a product for my university degree and would appreciate it if people could tell me of ANY problems they have about the use/ storing whatever of wine/ alcohol and dining. Any problems at all. I will of course then be trying to create a product that satisfies this need, Many thanks to allllll who help!

(no stupid answers please ie problems which products have already been made for) thanks!!

[thearchitect]

and when I say "dining" I mean like any problems with opening things/ cans/ storage of things/ anything about food!

[jno]

a bit late for me! In my youth you used to have to have biceps of steel to uncork a wine bottle, and as for storing food, we didn't even have a fridge. But things have got so much better since then it's hard to think of anything that badly needs designing/inventing.

[tamborine]

re-corking wine and preserving the quality & taste?

[thearchitect]

all very good answers.... thanks. more people cmon? i don't want you to think of things that you think need designing... just problems/ issues that I will then look into. thanks tho:) we can get more guys! cmon!...

[thearchitect]

ha! you got it! lol....nah good one though. just 4 uni..

[coccinelle]

The problem with white wine it has to be chilled/cold to be able to be appreciated; nothing worse than warm white wine. This is sometimes a problem to be had if say, you buy a bottle from the shop and can't get it to a fridge to cool it and as well it takes a few hours to chill. I do know you can get those wine cooler sleeves which you put into the freezer and will cool the wine down but if you don't have one handy well, they're no good. What I suggest you invent is a sleeve like the wine cooler sleeve which you operate a bit like a hand warmer (click the metal disk inside to heat the gel) but reverse so you always have one handy in your car or handbag and have cool white wine within say 20 minutes. I can honestly say I'd find you quite a few takers!

[coccinelle]

Something else has come to mind. It guts me to use drinkable wine in cooking, as I'm pouring 50cl of lovely red wine into my boeuf bourgignon I'm thinking of all those glasses going not to waste but you know what I mean. So you could invent a good flavoured wine concentrate to use instead. There doesn't need to be any alcohol in it as when you're cooking wine the alcohol evaporates anyway. This might exist already but I'm sure it isn't much good as everyone cooking with wine would use it.

[thearchitect]

Ok, thanks coccinelle, really useful. More peeps, more!..

[Mortartube]

If you have guests unexpectedly turn up and the white isn't chilled it would be great to have a chiller probe that you could put in the wine in the open bottle to bring it down to a drinkable temperature quickly. As you probably know, glass is a fairly good insulator, so chilling the actual wine instead of the bottle would be quicker. I would suggest it would need a linear chilling. I'e start off very cold for a set time and then gradually drop the probe temperature to the correct drinkable teperature. Also a small agitator to circulate the wine very gently so no sediment is disturbed but even chilling occurs, may also be useful.

[thearchitect]

brilliant thanks guys. Especially Eddie51 and Mortartube. anymore for anymore!!?! :)