3 Tricks for Quickly Cooling Wine and Drinks

Especially in summer, it is very useful to know a few tricks to cool wine, beer and other drinks faster before serving them at the table and quenching thirst.
There are several methods to cool wines and drinks faster. Here we recommend the simplest and most effective to save your dinners with friends or your parties, whether indoors or outdoors.

First method: how to cool a drink with water and salt

1. Take a bowl or a sufficiently large glass container and fill it with an ice-water mixture. Use the following proportions: 50% water and 50% ice;

2. Add a generous handful of coarse salt: the sodium and chloride ions contained in the salt polarize the water molecules, removing heat from them and thus lowering the temperature;

3. Immerse the cans or bottles in the resulting solution. Stir the water quickly with a wooden ladle: by taking advantage of the principle of thermal convection, you will cool your drinks faster;

4. Wait a few minutes until the temperature in the bowl has dropped sufficiently. Repeat the process several times to further cool the drinks.

Second method: How to cool a drink with kitchen paper

1. Take your can or bottle and hold it under a stream of cold water;

2. Take one or more sheets of kitchen paper and repeat the process under cold tap water;

3. Wrap the still wet can or bottle in the wet kitchen paper;

4. Put the wrapped can or bottle in the freezer and choose the fastest freezer compartment: instead of waiting 10-15 minutes, your drinks will be cold in just 2 minutes.

Third method: How to cool a drink with water balloons (ideal for garden parties)

1. Get water balloons like those used for summer water balloons. Fill them with water and put them in the drawers of your freezer to cool. Let them freeze for a few hours, preferably overnight;

2. Take a small plastic tub: you will need it to create your own frozen balloon pool;

3. Fill the tub with the frozen balloons and place your drinks between them: this way the tub will become your portable freezer that you can place in the garden and serve yourself without having to go to the kitchen.

These were our tips for cooling drinks faster: you just have to follow them when you need them to survive hot days or simply to get an ice cold drink in no time.