On the way in to work this morning, I heard about an awesome new product. This item is perfect for any man-cave. BlitzChiller Link to the product over on amazon.com - Amazon BlitzChiller Link to the official website - BlitzChiller I have sent an email to the wife for this item as Father's Day is right around the corner. -E
I was sold when I read this - "Chills cans to 38 degrees in 2 minutes or to 33 degrees in 4 minutes." -E
Yeah, I was thinking it would be something 95% of this bbs seems to be obsessed with - p*rn and video games. Anyway, you can chill your own beers in just a few minutes by putting the can on it's side on ice and using your index and middle fingers to "walk" the can in circles. A hot beer can be ice cold in just a few minutes.
I think it just takes 7.5 minutes if you completely sumberge your beers in ice, but here's this trick I heard about and found a link for that says it works in 3 minutes by putting ice, your beverage, water, and a bit of salt in a pot, then sticking it in the freezer. I wonder if tossing a bit of salt in a regular cooler of ice and water would work too? Maybe, but I'm guessing you'd need new ice after wards pretty soon. http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/07/how-to-chill-hot-beer-or-soda-in-3.html I guess a little more cumbersome than just tossing it in a bunch of ice and waiting 7.5 minutes, but... thought I'd share anyway.
What is it with salt and ice? They use ice on roads to help with wintry conditions yet you use it to make ice cream as well.
Salt lowers the freezing point of water so you can chill your beer in water below the normal freezing point. Since water conducts heat much better than ice you end up cooling your drinks faster. Salting the roads is done to prevent ice from forming, again by lowering the freezing point.
When sodium chloride dissolves in water, the particles disperse, and change the property of the liquid, lowering the temperature at which the water will freeze, as correctly stated above. The more particles dispersed within the liquid, the greater the changed property, until a saturation point is reached in which no more particles will dissolve in it. And since a liquid is a better conductor than a solid, this is why it is used in things like ice-cream makers, and these devices to rapidly chill beverages. Same principle. The salt allows the water to be colder than it could normally be without freezing into a solid. This of course explains why ocean water typically does not freeze. Sodium chloride is common table salt, and is generally the result of the evaporation of ocean water, which means it is fairly uncommon 'inland' because of its water solubility - ie rainfall washes it away. It is interesting because sodium chlorine is also a vital element in most living land creatures, and because of its relatively uncommon occurrence, most land animals have actually developed specialized 'salt receptors' in their taste buds, designed specifically to locate those items which contain it. This is why you deer hunters can lure Bambi out to get nailed between the eyes by putting out a salt lick... Now pure sodium, on the other hand, would just plain old *explode* if put in water, but thankfully it is not a naturally-occurring element, so no worries there. But it does bring back memories of prankish chem students placing little chunks of sodium and potassium in the urinals when I was in school.. nothing like sparking and exploding urine to generate a few laughs.
Thanks for the catch. I never knew five question marks were proper punctuation and that the word homo was to precede them. -E
As long as we're going there, don't forget that "homo?????" is also an uncapitalized fragment. This is a time the ignore feature will make your BBS experience exponentially more enjoyable... at least until someone uses the quote feature.
Its neat and all, but rarely do I buy beer that isn't already cold. Maybe cool for soda, but I don't buy soda anymore.
Nero, that's a very informative post, but MY GOD...just do what I said in post #7. It's way less complicated. Trust me. Well, occasionally it's cheaper if it's warm. You see beer on sale and piled up in the 'seasonal' section of the grocery store all the time, especially for drinking holidays. If it's on sale warm, I'm buying it.
