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Directions: Boil water in a pot. Hold the wine bottle over the pot of boiling water for 10 to 15 minutes. The steam affects the glue and softens the label. Carefully remove the label with your hands.
Results: After 25 minutes of steaming—10 on the back side, 15 on the front, one label peeled off with ready-to-mount perfection. Only a trace of glue residue was to be found. The other wine bottle was clearly not ready and got sent back into the steamer (we suggest using a pasta-draining pot-in-pot to hold the bottles). The longer you steam, the cleaner the peel, although after some 25 minutes with a certain bottle of Chilean Malbec, we were ready to call it quits. If you're looking to save labels, steaming and baking are the way to go. If you're trying to plow through, you're better with a soak. Only one out of three bottles peeled cleanly within 30 minutes of steaming.
Score: 6 out of 10 (www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to/a3085/how-to-remove-a-bottle-label/)
Directions: Boil water in a pot. Hold the wine bottle over the pot of boiling water for 10 to 15 minutes. The steam affects the glue and softens the label. Carefully remove the label with your hands.
Results: After 25 minutes of steaming—10 on the back side, 15 on the front, one label peeled off with ready-to-mount perfection. Only a trace of glue residue was to be found. The other wine bottle was clearly not ready and got sent back into the steamer (we suggest using a pasta-draining pot-in-pot to hold the bottles). The longer you steam, the cleaner the peel, although after some 25 minutes with a certain bottle of Chilean Malbec, we were ready to call it quits. If you're looking to save labels, steaming and baking are the way to go. If you're trying to plow through, you're better with a soak. Only one out of three bottles peeled cleanly within 30 minutes of steaming.
Score: 6 out of 10 (www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to/a3085/how-to-remove-a-bottle-label/)