The reverse microwave, or alternative

jester77 · 13-01-2011 1:18pm #1

You come home and can pop yesterdays leftovers in the microwave and it's nice and warm and ready to eat a minute later.

But what do you do with the warm six pack of beer you brought home to complement yesterdays culinary masterpiece? You can pop one in the freezer but it won't be cold enough in a minute or you can just drink a warm beer, not exactly refreshing.

Is there such a device as a reverse microwave where you can pop in the beer and it will be nicely chilled within a minute? Or has anyone an amazing tip at how to get a warm beer chilled in a minute?

Of course you can always forward plan and have beers sitting in the fridge pre-chilled and waiting for you.... as if!!

Jake Rugby Walrus666 · 13-01-2011 1:19pm

ice ice baby

TeddyTedson · 13-01-2011 1:19pm

Glass with ice maybe?

mawk · 13-01-2011 1:19pm

Called a heat pump. Its why your fridge is cold inside and hot at the back.

jimthemental · 13-01-2011 1:20pm

They have this amazing thing called cold beer in a lot of off licences now.

godscop · 13-01-2011 1:20pm

Or you could just finish your beers that night, lightweight.

TheZohanS · 13-01-2011 1:21pm

This stuff, easy to get a hold of too.

chin_grin · 13-01-2011 1:22pm

You could try this trick.

FreudianSlippers · 13-01-2011 1:23pm

Someone just watched the film Haggard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haan3Tz0SJk

Ruu_Old · 13-01-2011 1:23pm

Liquid nitrogen, oh yes! *rubs hands*

PCPhoto · 13-01-2011 1:24pm

dry ice??? ... wouldnt you be better with liquid nitrogen.....oh dear !! I just had a NEEERD moment.

anyhoo .... OP .... Beer, Glass, Ice (in the correct order of course)

Cook my sock · 13-01-2011 1:25pm

liquid nitrogen
insulated gloves
????????
profit!

edit: PCPhoto got in while I was reading the thread. boo

jimthemental · 13-01-2011 1:25pm

Ruu wrote: »

Liquid nitrogen, oh yes! *rubs hands*

.....and then they break off due to being frozen and stuff, and the can/bottle wouldn't hold their own weight after the dry ice or liquid N

dMaN24 · 13-01-2011 1:25pm

Simples!

http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p203/dMaN_24/Operation%20Quickfreeze/

token56 · 13-01-2011 1:26pm

Liquid Nitrogen would the job I'd say.

TheZohanS · 13-01-2011 1:26pm

Ruu wrote: »

Liquid nitrogen, oh yes! *rubs hands*

You've become quite evil of late there Ruu...

jimthemental · 13-01-2011 1:27pm

PCPhoto wrote: »

dry ice??? ... wouldnt you be better with liquid nitrogen.....oh dear !! I just had a NEEERD moment.

anyhoo .... OP .... Beer, Glass, Ice (in the correct order of course)

Ice in beer?!!! I thought there were blasphemy laws in this bloody country!:eek:

enda1 · 13-01-2011 1:28pm

In all seriousness tough, what a cool invention that would be.
Though the physics of the situation make it seem unlikely we'll see a consumer one any time soon.

(pardon the pun)

Mint Sauce · 13-01-2011 1:29pm

Dont leave any left overs, problem sloved.

chin_grin · 13-01-2011 1:30pm

jimthemental wrote: »

Ice in beer?!!! I thought there were blasphemy laws in this bloody c*nt-ry!:eek:

Tryin' to eat my lunch there bub, less of the mental imagery please.

Add salt to the bucket you're after putting the ice and beer in to (beer has to still be in the can unless you want salty beer..............uhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh).

jimogr · 13-01-2011 1:33pm

salt + water + ice = cold in a few mins.

jimthemental · 13-01-2011 1:36pm

chin_grin wrote: »

Tryin' to eat my lunch there bub, less of the mental imagery please.

Funny, that just made me hungry:cool:

prinz · 13-01-2011 1:36pm

+1 on the salt thing above. Fill a sink with ice and cold water, dump in a bit of salt and a few cans.

enda1 · 13-01-2011 1:39pm

Get a wine gel pack cooler (or 6) and keep them in the freezer for such occasions. They work wonders. 5 minutes for a bottle of wine, I imagine much quicker for a can of booze.

Lumen · 13-01-2011 1:41pm

You just need a molecular damping field. How hard can it be?

OTOH, entropy will probably kick your arse if you try, for the same reason that you can't get the toothpaste back in the tube or execute a reverse break in snooker.

enda1 · 13-01-2011 2:08pm

Lumen wrote: »

You just need a molecular damping field. How hard can it be?

OTOH, entropy will probably kick your arse if you try, for the same reason that you can't get the toothpaste back in the tube or execute a reverse break in snooker.

I was just googeling molecular damping actually!

It could be possible to pass the disorder to another medium perhaps. Some low energy ray could somehow become high energy after passing through the product. (No idea how though to be honest).

Cool thing is though, that such a device could (in theory) be self powering by drawing its energy from the product to be cooled. Kinda makes me think of a Stirling engine though it still words on the rather slow heat-pump ideas.

Gman1 · 13-01-2011 2:09pm

jester77 wrote: »

You come home and can pop yesterdays leftovers in the microwave and it's nice and warm and ready to eat a minute later.

But what do you do with the warm six pack of beer you brought home to complement yesterdays culinary masterpiece? You can pop one in the freezer but it won't be cold enough in a minute or you can just drink a warm beer, not exactly refreshing.

Is there such a device as a reverse microwave where you can pop in the beer and it will be nicely chilled within a minute? Or has anyone an amazing tip at how to get a warm beer chilled in a minute?

Of course you can always forward plan and have beers sitting in the fridge pre-chilled and waiting for you.... as if!!

1. Fill kitchen sink with cold water
2. Add salt
3. Add ice if u want
4. Toss in beers
5. Voilá, cold in much less time!

dMaN24 · 13-01-2011 2:17pm

No one looked at my ingenious contraption.

Mr Benevolent · 13-01-2011 2:19pm

token56 wrote: »

Liquid Nitrogen would the job I'd say.

Yup, LN2 is the way to go.

13-01-2011 2:30pm

Every pub in the country has beer coolers which flash cool draught beer, hardly a new thing.

Coriolanus · 13-01-2011 2:33pm

Why does the salt help?

Pherekydes · 13-01-2011 2:35pm

If you hold the backspace button while pressing start your microwave will run in reverse.

Alternately, wait until it snows again and leave your beer outside overnight, though if you're a lightweight and drink weak beer it will freeze, or partially freeze.

Lumen · 13-01-2011 2:37pm

Nevore wrote: »

Why does the salt help?

It depresses the freezing point of the water.

chin_grin · 13-01-2011 2:38pm

Nevore wrote: »

Why does the salt help?

Ok I'll click on the link for you.

lifehacker wrote:

Mythbusters TV show host Adam Savage drops science on how to make a warm can of Coke cold in under 2 minutes over on Ask MetaFilter.

That would be about 20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put [the can] 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.

While our lawyers tell us not to recommend the fire extinguisher route, salt in an ice water bucket is doable. (And if you haven't seen Mythbusters, you're missing out. That show is a MacGyvering lifehacker's dream come true.) — Gina Trapani

http://lifehacker.com/221974/chill-a-coke-in-2-minutes

Lumen · 13-01-2011 2:43pm

chin_grin wrote: »

Ok I'll click on the link for you.

Yeah, but if you're too disorganised to put your beer in the fridge there's no way you'll have ice in the freezer.

ejmaztec · 13-01-2011 3:00pm

Move to Antarctica, problem solved.

Coriolanus · 13-01-2011 3:04pm

chin_grin wrote: »

Ok I'll click on the link for you.

http://lifehacker.com/221974/chill-a-coke-in-2-minutes

I didn't see a link. :v

TPD · 13-01-2011 3:16pm

I'd been leaving my beers outside on the windowsil with the recent bad weather. Cold enough to drink within a few minutes on a breezy night.

Birneybau · 13-01-2011 3:19pm

Hav'nt read the thread* but how about Liquid Nitrogen?

A Molecular Damping Field?

Dry ice?

Move to Antartica?

*I kid

Capt'n Midnight · 13-01-2011 3:23pm

jester77 wrote: »

But what do you do with the warm six pack of beer you brought home to complement yesterdays culinary masterpiece? You can pop one in the freezer but it won't be cold enough in a minute or you can just drink a warm beer, not exactly refreshing.

This is why you should always have a cold one in the fridge for just such an emergency

Some substances (I'm looking at you Ammonium Nitrate) get cold when you dissolve them in water. So put bottle in a bucket of it add water and it will get very cold. Of course there is the little problem it's been responsible for most of the biggest non-nuclear explosions, so probably best not to mix it with alcohol.

tribalwings · 13-01-2011 3:32pm

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070306/tinchilla-%E2%80%93-instantly-cooling-your-beer-cans-in-only-60-seconds/

I wonder would this do the trick ?

chin_grin · 13-01-2011 3:37pm

Nevore wrote: »

I didn't see a link. :v

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chin_grin wrote: »

You could try this trick.

PrzemoF · 13-01-2011 3:39pm

Liquid nitroge or dry ice are not cool :eek: enough!
Go for a laser trap!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_trap

I don't know, however, if it has been tested on a beer can...

jester77 · 13-01-2011 3:40pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

This is why you should always have a cold one in the fridge for just such an emergency

Have you ever tried leaving 1 beer in the fridge?

tribalwings wrote: »

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070306/tinchilla-%E2%80%93-instantly-cooling-your-beer-cans-in-only-60-seconds/

I wonder would this do the trick ?

Interesting link, wonder if you can even open the beer after cooling it. That site also has a link to this device

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