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Slight related topic: Anyone else BBQ a lot, reach to open a beer bottle, but are missing an opener? Why don't they make every BBQ utensil have a decent bottle opener at the end. Better yet, every utensil in your house?

Please take this idea and run with, just tell me where to buy a set.

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My grill spatula has a bottle opener embedded in the cutout pattern at the end. When I realized it was a bottle opener I immediately thought 'who would want to open a bottle with a grilling spatula?'. Now, finally, I have my answer: tvongaza would want to open a bottle with a grilling spatula.

Sadly I don't recall where we bought our grill tools. Looks, based on a quick google, like it's not an uncommon combination. I think this would probably suit you pretty well: https://www.firebox.com/Machete-Spatula/p7134?mkt=en-us

The bottle opener on the end of my grill spatula is the only bottle opener in my entire kitchen that I can reliably find (because it's affixed to this huge grill spatula).

I use it to open bottles far, far more often than I use it as a spatula. I don't think I even grilled this year. Someone should make a grill spatula + bottle opener combo without the useless spatula part.

Home Depot sells one like this if you're in the US

You can use the flat edge of anything with a little leverage to pry a bottle cap off using your fingers as a fulcrum beneath the cap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm0ZkABVqjQ

Real men use their teeth though.

(I never opened a bottle that way; but I did see someone break a tooth once. A molar, clean in half. Not sure if I'd rather have a wire stuck in my gut or break a molar in half.)

I have opened beer bottles with my belt buckle. Apparently this surprised people.

...I have seen someone successfully open a wine bottle with a shoe.

Cap of another (unopened) bottle works perfectly for this.

if you have sturdy (ie like volkswagen/audi/bmw) keys, you can use a key in a similar fashion

Bic lighters are exceptionally good for this (one of the important life skills I learned in college).

Can't speak for BMW keys, but every VAG key I've had has been horribly flimsy. Don't use it to open bottles or you'll be locked out of your car.

Don't take this the wrong way.

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&biw=1119&bih=769&q=gri...

You can use a bic lighter or a table top (if you don't particularly care for the table) or even your teeth (if you don't particularly care for your teeth)

https://www.amazon.com/Leegoal-Rustic-Bottle-Opener-Vintage/...

You can attach it pretty much anywhere just drilling and using a nut and bolt.

Everything is a beer opener. You just need skills.. :)

You just need to learn how to open a beer bottle with another beer bottle, or just use a corner of the BBQ.

Why not have the bottle opener attached to the BBQ itself? You could DIY this, or attach a keychain one to a chain to the BBQ.

Do you not have any sort of fixed object in the general vicinity with a straight, perpendicular edge? Picnic table edges, grill lips, random boards and pieces of wood, the eye socket or tooth of an Enlish soccer hooligan?

Here you go, someone got this for me as a gift many years ago:

https://www.pamperedchef.com/shop/Outdoor/BBQ+Tools/BBQ+Turn...

I used it quite a bit, but just as a spatula. Very sturdy.

Every grill spatula is a great beer opener whether it was designed to be one or not.

You have an eye socket no? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5d8AKoa4Oo

I've seen a grill once with a bottle opener attached to it. really good idea that I'd never think of.

If you need a special tool to get your beer open, you don't want to drink badly enough.

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