IDEA: Soda can / bottle cooler

[Plastkort]

Hi!

Today I found out that someone forgot to put the soda in the fridge to cool it down, I searched the net for various solutions, and found one that worked, which was about water, ice bricks and salt... stir it all together and put the soda can/bottle down there.. and stir again...

so I wonder if there is a way to create a device where you have some sort of engine/pump or whatever to do this job for you, just use recyclable icecubes which can be refreezed, and just adding water and salt..

video
http://www.metacafe....a_coke_in_2_minutes/

[edbro]

All ice cubes are recylable! (until you add that salt)

I use this all the time. Last week I wanted to chill a beer quickly so I put it in a bowl of ice and water, poured in salt and stirred it up. Ice cold beer in less than 5 minutes! Salt melts the ice sucking up heat to do so. Same technique as a hand cranked ice cream maker.

[Plastkort]

cool, But I want to create some sort of machine to do this, with some electricity and stuff.. it has to work

[app103]

You could just get something like this:


http://www.thinkgeek...ets/electronic/7f5a/

[edbro]

Another neat and related trick is a quick way to cool a bottle of wine. Wrap it in newspaper and soak the newspaper with water. Put the bottle on the outside of your car windshield in the wiper gutter and drive about 2 miles. The water evaporating from the newspaper will pull heat from the bottle and chill it very quickly.

[f0dder]

Another neat and related trick is a quick way to cool a bottle of wine. Wrap it in newspaper and soak the newspaper with water. Put the bottle on the outside of your car windshield in the wiper gutter and drive about 2 miles. The water evaporating from the newspaper will pull heat from the bottle and chill it very quickly.

-edbro (May 12, 2007, 04:30 PM)

Notice that you should grab do this to several bottles of wine at once, since you shouldn't repeat the trick after you've drunk the first bottle :]

[nite_monkey]

Another neat and related trick is a quick way to cool a bottle of wine. Wrap it in newspaper and soak the newspaper with water. Put the bottle on the outside of your car windshield in the wiper gutter and drive about 2 miles. The water evaporating from the newspaper will pull heat from the bottle and chill it very quickly.

-edbro (May 12, 2007, 04:30 PM)

Notice that you should grab do this to several bottles of wine at once, since you shouldn't repeat the trick after you've drunk the first bottle :]

-f0dder (May 13, 2007, 09:23 AM)

lol, yeah, that is something to do in large amounts, we don't want to go drunk driving.

[allen]

Mythbusters looked into various ways to cool a six pack a while back . . . what a great job. Not the first or last time they were paid to sample alcohol in the name of science :D