We’ve discovered an easy and effective technique for quick chilling wine.
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To chill a bottle of wine, you can just pop it into the freezer, but it will take a while to cool down (in our tests, it took about an hour to bring a bottle of room-temperature wine to 50 degrees, the ideal drinking temperature). We’ve also recommended submerging the bottle in a salt/ice-water solution, which will chill it in about half that time. (When salt is added to ice water, its freezing point and temperature decrease to well below 32 degrees.)
Now we’ve discovered an equally effective (and less messy) technique for quick chilling: Simply wrap the bottle in a wet kitchen towel before placing it in the freezer. Since cooling occurs when heat is transferred away from an item, the water in the towel—a much more efficient conductor of heat than air—will quickly freeze, dropping the temperature of the wine to 50 degrees in only 30 minutes. (Note: Once the wine is fully chilled, the towel will be frozen solid. To release it from the bottle, just place it briefly under warm running water.)
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for how long can it stay in the freezer? I'm afraid it will break haha 😛
or buy the Cooper Cooler!
red wine should not be chillled, only white and rose
Why are you chilling red wine?
Yes, Ice, water and salt; then spin the bottle (along the vertical axis) and the bottle is cooled in less than 2minutes.
stick cold glass under warm water to waste a perfectly good bottle of wine in seconds
Ice, water and salt. That's the fastest.
What temperature should the pictured red wine be chilled to?
wet paper towel works good also. Thinner towels cool down quicker.