Morning Cup O' Joe

“Cool” Party Trick

If you’ve ever had to make a soda/beer run in the middle of a party, you know what’s involved in trying to cool down those suckers in the shortest amount of time possible.  Anybody have anything explode in the freezer on them?

Here’s a tip from Adam Savage (of Mythbusters):

That would be about 20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in a
bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that
ice, it’d be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you
put salt in that water, you’d reduce the chill time to just over 2
minutes. Agitating the can in the water, rolling it around, reduces the
chill time even more.

The fastest possible way is to grab a CO2 fire extinguisher and unload that sucker on the can.

Whatever you do, do NOT bury the can in sand, pour gasoline on the sand and set the sand on fire. That won’t do anything.

This is all empirically gained evidence, not third party.

Here’s a link to the thread on MetaFilter.

December 16, 2006 - Posted by Mike | How-To