I got curious as to putting beer in my freezer for a short period to make it cold. Turns out others have recommendations. So here is a good one that i tested to see how it works. Soak a paper towel in cold water and wrap it around your drink. Soft drinks cool as good as beer. It works since water removes heat faster than air does. The towel is to hold water. It does not take too long for the beer to chill so feel the cold paper towel and it will stiffen up. Remove beer or other drink and thank yourself you learned this trick today.
Why do you need to chill cold drinks? I tend to chill room temperature drinks to make them cold. Do you mean just wrap it in a paper towel in the air, or putting it in the refrigerator or the freezer? Also, the fastest way to chill warm drinks is to put them in ice brine.
I have a framed, signed campaign photo of ms Hillary Clinton. When I want to "chill" my bottled or canned beverages, I simply pull the framed, signed campaign photo out. It's like magic. My beverages almost completely freeze over.....
They change from warm to cold the way I explained it. This is a quick chill system. You need to chill warm drinks to make them cold. If you enjoy warm beer, forget this system. The paper towel is to be soaked with water. If you put the drinks in the refrigerator, and not the freezer, it also works. I think you can get a bit colder using the freezer. If one lacks ice brine, but has a refrigerator, use my system. If they have a good quantify of ice brine, try yours and mine and keep time and temperature figures to learn which is fastest.
I saw her on TV last night and the Media did not rip into her as they do to Trump. Asked her if Bill Clinton should have resigned for his abuse of office and she defended him saying no he should not have.
It is possible to become inured to very warm beer, and even like it -- until you get a cold one again.
The point was that you don't need to "chill" cold drinks. Cold drinks are already chilled. The thread title should be "Rapid way to chill drinks" Ice brine is just salted icewater. It's what they use when they flashfreeze fish on fishing boats.
I don't doubt it. That said, a friend of mine who had been in the Marines in Africa (Djibouti IIRC), said that the most practical way to get beer cold under field conditions is to get a bag of ice, and then roll the beer can on the ice for 5 minutes.
And, you have my permission to change the title as you see fit. I am more interested in the tip than the title of the thread.
We play "spin-a-beer," in emergencies. Almost instant warm to cold. https://hiconsumption.com/2013/10/spin-chill-cold-beer-in-30-seconds/
I sifted through the posts to see if someone was going to say this before I said it too. Yes, this is my "go to" move
Well this dog sprung legs. I am happy for the interest. I do not keep a chest full of ice and cold water. Ergo putting my beer, wrapped in a soaked paper towel is what I plan to do when I need a warm beer chilled quickly If take an ice filled chest out, the beer is already in the chest cold.
It's a technique mainly used at social events. Some stores don't sell cold beer (for whatever reason). So they take a few cases home, and you spin the beers so you can hand them out cold. If you have a freezer with an ice maker, quickly toss a beer in the ice, spin for like 30 seconds....BAM, cold beer
What do you mean by quickly? Spin-a-beer works in a minute or two, depending on your preferred level of cold. I doubt your method gets it done in less than 1/2 hour, depending on what you call cold. For me, it's no different than making hard boiled eggs or shrimp - ice & water in a bowl takes just a few seconds. Your method is definitely better than just throwing it in the freezer, but it won't get you the near instant results the way "rapid," implies.
I did not precisely time it but I put warm beer, wrapped in a wet paper towel and in about 10 minutes was drinking cold beer. I did not say it is faster than spin a beer. As I did actually say, who lugs around a ice chest to cool a beer when he can simply put in the beer in the first instance and when he wants beer, he has it. Spin a beer is not a problem to me.
I wasn't really arguing with you on this silly topic. I would not have guessed 10 minutes. I'll try it and report back. (I like my beer really, really cold; almost, but not quite, slushy.)
i do not question it is a great way to cool a beer. I would thank the person with that suggestion had he not ripped me for my title.
Oh my friend, cold beer is never silly. I have plenty of cold beer in the refrigerator but have part of a case and I can do it scientifically. I have a precise thermometer.
