{"id":100,"date":"2008-07-02T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/?p=100"},"modified":"2008-07-02T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T01:48:00","slug":"cold-drink-when-you-havent-planned-and-are-impatient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/cold-drink-when-you-havent-planned-and-are-impatient\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold drink when you haven&#8217;t planned and are impatient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the fastest way to get a cold drink?<br \/>Adam Savage from <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/fansites\/mythbusters\/mythbusters.html\">Mythbusters<\/a> has the answer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;d be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you put salt in that water, you&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The fastest possible way is to grab a CO2 fire extinguisher and unload that sucker on the can.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you do, do NOT bury the can in sand, pour gasoline on the sand and set the sand on fire. That won&#8217;t do anything.<\/p>\n<p>This is all empirically gained evidence, not third party.<br \/>posted by asavage at 11:07 AM on November 30, 2006 [137 favorites]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the smart-ass who is asking &#8220;why not just pour the drink on the ice in a glass?&#8221;. The scenario is that it is a carbonated beverage that will lose its carbonation if opened warm.<\/p>\n<p>To the question about why are you drinking a carbonated beverage &#8211; I have been told there is no right answer.<br \/><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Food\" rel=\"tag\">Food<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the fastest way to get a cold drink?Adam Savage from Mythbusters has the answer. 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&#8217;d be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/cold-drink-when-you-havent-planned-and-are-impatient\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cold drink when you haven&#8217;t planned and are impatient<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUBG8-1C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}