Drink Chiller

by Computothought

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Intro: Drink Chiller

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


See also: https://www.instructables.com/id/Our-food-instructables/

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.

STEP 2: What to Do:

Put the un-chilled beverage in the bucket. Current temp is  80 degrees F
Add ice and generously spread salt as you add the ice.
When the beverage is covered, then fill the bucket with water just to the top of the ice but not over the top of the bucket.
Relax for a few minutes.
You could stir on occasion.
Left thermometer in beverage to watch the temperature.
Temp went down to 60 degrees F in a minute or so
I added a second beverage in a smaller bottle at 100 degrees F  to see the effects on it.  Down to 80 degrees pretty quick, might be affecting the larger bottle. Large bottle now only 50 degrees. Added salt.

STEP 3: Done.

Your beverage should be ready now. the temperature is: degrees  45 F. I let it go to see how far it would go and it went to the thirties.

7 Comments

tekjock 13 years ago

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 13 years ago

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 13 years ago

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 13 years ago

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.

dchall8 13 years ago

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.