Difficulty: Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need:
- White wine
- Salt
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Step 1
For either of these methods in removing red wine stains to work, you must act quickly, while the red wine is still wet.
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Step 2
Fight wine with wine! Immediately pour white wine on top of the red wine stain. This works almost every time, like magic! The red wine stain should simply vanish.
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Step 3
If a stain still remains or if you don't have white wine available, cover the red wine stain with simple table salt. The salt will absorb the red wine and washing the garment should remove the rest.
Comments
outoftime said
on 4/26/2009 On the spilled wine.. you got all these great ideas on how to get it out.. fantastic ideas. when I said you had too much to drink. It was meant to funny , you know ha-ha?be a joke..get it? Yikes -- I guess on paper it didn't sound funny some things just dont't work out that way Guess we need to Chill out- not take things so seriously there was a funny email that said what do you do with old wine and it said are you serious.. who has leftover wine! i guess it all how it sounds ..didn't come out right on this one..
missnice104 said
on 7/18/2008 That really rocks! What a great article! Thanks a lot! I would have never known!!
knewf said
on 7/15/2008 sounds like good advice, and I agree outoftime is DEFINITELY outofline!
KaCe said
on 7/14/2008 While attending a reception someone bumped me as I lifted my glass to drink and red wine was deposited on a nice light yellow blouse. One of the wait-staff hussled me off to the kitchen and we did the following and it worked like a charm.
We held my blouse out (normally you'd remove it) over the sink and applied a liberal amount of salt - which I think attracts the pigment of the red wine. Then we pour nearly boiling water through the garment, as if it were straining the stain. And to my amazement it was gone. I've used this for spills on clothes ever since and have no ruined garments from wine. This same trick has not worked on curry. Any help with curry?
agentkaren said
on 7/14/2008 I've tried the dishwashing detergent and peroxide and it does work. Also, if red wine is spilled, don't always assume it is the person who is drinking who spilled it. A dog can knock the glass over, a kid or baby could bump the table, or there can be an earthquake. There are any number of reasons wine could be spilled. Accidents do happen. outoftime was outofline with her comment about having had too much to drink. Geez, lighten up.