Drink chiller

Just another way to cool down beverages sort of fairly quickly. Safer than using the freezer.

Step 1 What you need:

A beverage to be cooled down.
Common table salt.
Ice
Water
1 Bucket (I needed a larger one)
1 large stirring spoon.

Optional: Instant thermometer.

Comments

[tekjock]

My personal fav is a large rubbermaid garbage can, put a large garbage bag in there, FILL WITH WATER, then get 2 to 3 blocks of ice and put them in. This works great with 2 liter bottles .

[Computothought]

Cool!

[Computothought]

Maybe I should of did a comparison with ice cream salt vs table salt. To be honest, when I do make ice cream or the like I just use table salt. It is so much cheaper.

[Decepticon]

Soooo....ice in a bucket. Never heard of that one before. Although the salt is an added bonus. That's how you get sub freezing temps when you make homemade icecream.

[Spiff73]

Ah, but that's the thing. Most people stop at ice in a bucket because "that makes things cold". They don't understand that it takes salt to allow sub-freezing temps, and water to allow more surface area for the transfer of thermal energy.

[Computothought]

Thank you for the comments.

[dchall8]

We used to let our girls sell soft drinks when we had garage sales. Salt was the secret ingredient to making them colder than cold. One problem though was the diet drinks don't have enough sugar in them to keep them from freezing...so they froze, expanded, and broke the cans open.