These Stainless Steel Chilling Sticks Won't Cool What You Want

[phoronix]

Phoronix: These Stainless Steel Chilling Sticks Won't Cool What You Want

As some other cooling hardware coverage this weekend besides the Scythe Mugen MAX CPU heatsink review is a look at two stainless steel chilling sticks that promise to be handy, but in reality come up short...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc4Nzg

[YoungManKlaus]

the better trick for fastly cooling beer is to wrap it in a wet tissue and put it in the freezer ... takes 5 to 10 minutes. Also works without the tissue but seems to take considerably longer time from my experiments.

[Michael]

the better trick for fastly cooling beer is to wrap it in a wet tissue and put it in the freezer ... takes 5 to 10 minutes. Also works without the tissue but seems to take considerably longer time from my experiments.

Yeah I've heard the wet towel idea works great, been meaning to try it.

[89c51]

Every "gadget" related to wine or beer (be it aerators, cooling etc) seems to be bullshit.

Just put your beers in the freezer for a while. And don't drink quality beer cold. Low temps kill half the flavor.

[cutterjohn]

the better trick for fastly cooling beer is to wrap it in a wet tissue and put it in the freezer ... takes 5 to 10 minutes. Also works without the tissue but seems to take considerably longer time from my experiments.

Hmmm... have to try that sometime, but personally I think that icewater baths still win out... should be generally better heat transfer between icewater & BEER!

[The 11th plague]

I just pick an ice pack and wrap it around the bottle.
Works even better for beer cans.

[bridgman]

Hmmm... have to try that sometime, but personally I think that icewater baths still win out... should be generally better heat transfer between icewater & BEER!

It seems to be generally accepted that adding some salt to the icewater results in an even faster chill.

[mark45]

There are many great inventions, here's another one, unfortunately it's patented.

[rbmorse]

Beer temps

If you're drinking serious beer (and not the typical mass-market US/UK/AUS/JN swill) you'll want it cooled to somewhere around 14-16c. Any cooler and it kills the bouquet and dulls the flavor of the component parts.

Of course, if you're drinking the typical mass-market US/UK/AUS/JN swil, you want it chilled as far down as possible to kill the bouquet and dull the flavor of the component parts (and formaldehydes).

[_pLu_]

There are many great inventions, here's another one, unfortunately it's patented.

Patent expired in 2005 due to failure to pay maintenance fee.

https://encrypted.google.com/patents/US6293874