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Thermodynamics question...
bigoutside
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I have a case of room temp beers in cans.
It's 25 degrees outside.
My guests will be over in a short while.
Which will result in frosty goodness quicker?
Bury a beer in the 8" of snow on the picnic table?
Or-
Put them on the brick pavers?
It's 25 degrees outside.
My guests will be over in a short while.
Which will result in frosty goodness quicker?
Bury a beer in the 8" of snow on the picnic table?
Or-
Put them on the brick pavers?
Comments
I'm actually 'placing' them in the snow. Some vertical. Some horizontal.
It was a vertical one.
I'd have to rate it as 'warmish'.
Another way is make an ice-bath in the kitchen sink and add salt. Makes it colder.
You'll get quicker results with air *circulation* or water circulation. Snow traps the air, dead air is an insulator.
The air circulation will not be as fast, you need to do it through conduction and the more surface area covered the better.. Snow will cover the all of it so thats your best bet, it does insulate but only to a point... It will only cool the barley pop down to 32 or whatever the temp of the snow is, if your outside temp is 25, then the snow will insulate it from those temperatures... Aluminum is a great heat/cold conductor,
Capt. Jack Sparrow.
They are all vertical in the snow.
Evidently this is the best way.
Thanks for your input. The wife says this is the way to do it.
Steal one of your wife's big plastic storage tubs. Toss in the beer, couple of gallons of water, and fill with snow. If your wife complains about stealing the tub, give her a cold beer!
OR....you could use a chest cooler.[:D]
Haven't you guys ever "spun" a beer?
Put the beer in ice (or snow) and slowly spin it. It'll chill down twice as fast.[:)]
Really, in the old days, the fastest way was to put a side tap on a can of R12, then take the side tap off and spray the can directly with R12. About 30 seconds and it was cold.
Salt will let the water temp go below 32 degrees w/o freezing (super cooling)
Add the beers and they will chill in minutes!
You got us KRAUTS mixed up with the BRITS they are the ones that like warm beer because they have LUCAS refrigerators [:o)][:I][}:)][;)][:p]
I have seen the Germans put both beer & Coke bottles in a tub of water on a fire to warm them up. I never saw them put beer in anything to cool it. Of course that was fifty years ago.
You got us KRAUTS mixed up with the BRITS they are the ones that like warm beer because they have LUCAS refrigerators [:o)][:I][}:)][;)][:p]
hahahahahaha
I have a LUCAS pacemaker and it works perf