I may wish to fashion a funnel later on.

[flobadob]

I am thinking about making some mulled wine later on. Apparently it must be warmed up in a saucepan and I am thinking I'll probably just put it back into the bottle when it is made but I don't have a funnel. Does anyone have a way to make a funnel that I can use to pour it back in, or else an alternative idea for storage of my festive beverage?

[MarkRae]

Don't you have something like this?
http://lh6.googleuser...-CBt1Hi8kPijawLSo26gQ

[tenrec]

Just use some stiff card or plastic and roll it into a funnel shape. Remember it has to be shiny card or it will absorb the wine.

[welshlibranr]

If you have any empty fizzy drink bottle, just cut the bottom off, and you have a funnel!........

[tenrec]

Oh Welshy I forgot about that. Well done.

[welshlibranr]

you're welcome tenrec, hope the mulled wine is delicious!........enjoy!...

[flobadob]

But the fizzy drink bottle neck is the same as the wine bottle neck so it won't go in properly. Mark, I find the same problem with the jug, it will be pouring down the sides, and obviously I don't want to spill a drop.

[welshlibranr]

flobadob, sorry, didn't think of that!........Plan B it is then!.........will try to think of one!............

[tenrec]

Back to the home-made funnel.

[sherrardk]

Make a cone out of cardboard or similar and line the inside with tin foil?

[tenrec]

You could use a plastic bag, just snip one corner and push down into wine bottle (careful)! Then fill bag slowly and wine should dribble down into bottle. Sorted.

[Nibble]

Have you got any cooking foil, or greaseproof paper? Roll several layers of it into a funnel shaped tube with the narrow end inside the wine bottle neck. Or store the wine in a large screw top jam jar or Kilner jar until you need it.

Tbh when we have mulled wine, we heat it/make it in a large saucepan when we need it (not in advance), then just scoop it out with small mugs, wipe the dribble off the mugs and drink it from the mugs.

[Prudie]

Surely you make mulled wine when you want to drink it and serve it warm?

[boxtops]

That's how we do it, Prudie - unless we buy a bottle of pre-made stuff, we make it when we need it, we don't make it in advance and rebottle it. Too much of a faff.

[flobadob]

Tenrec, careful is not in my vocabulary tonight. I have never drank(drunk?) it before, let alone made it. I'm just planning on making a bottles worth and then warming it as and when needed. Is that a bad idea? Advice appreciated.

[jomifl]

dip the narrow end of the cut off fizzy drink bottle into boiling water, it shuld shrink.

[jomifl]

^ stck this o in somewhere.

[boxtops]

Yes, it's not a good idea, flobadob - I find it doesn't keep, you need to drink it warm and ready-made.

[Prudie]

Haven't you got a measuring or milk jug with a lip and a steadyish hand?

[flobadob]

Well I made it and used MarkRae's idea, it being the simplest. Only problem being the ground in red wine stain that has been left on the worktop. The mulled wine itself was quite nice. We warmed the rest up and finished it today. What I found interesting was the fact that before I warmed it up earlier it just smelled like red wine, but when it was warmed through it had a completely different fragrance, that of mulled wine I suppose you would say.