This has nothing to do with microwave technology at all. A sad face is warranted.
Reverse microwaves? The author of the post must be completely, 100% scientifically illiterate.
Reverse Microwave Chills Beer In 45 Seconds
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#2345 seconds is too long for a beer!
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#24There used to be a chilling device as a party store near my house. There was a tub of super-chilled green or blue liquid that was in a whirlpool of sorts, and you could dunk your just-purchased drink in there for 1 minute and it would be cold when you took it out. But doesn't beer benefit from always staying cold?
Pool of antifreeze? Who cares! In all honesty, a shared tub sounds like a horrible idea.
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#25Is this new? I can remember wine coolers in British supermarkets in the early 90s where you placed a wine bottle into a receptacle, pressed a button and extracted a very cold bottle about 90 seconds later. I'm guessing they just circulated cold water round the bottle.
Whole Foods (Large American grocer targeting healthy and alternative lifestyles) still has what seems to be just that at their stores in the wine departments. It's a rather drab looking cylindrical device with a pool of water in it that swirls on button press.
Now people at Whole Foods are going to be scratching their heads as to why the sudden a bunch of geeks are lining up to use the wine chiller no one has touched in the last five years. lol
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you add salt to the ice it'll chill even faster.
Salt, and water to increase the contact area with the can/bottle (unless you want to wait for the ice to melt).
Since we are going off on a tangent, a cool camping hack when you don't have ice is to stuff a beer in a tube sock, dunk it in water, and hang/tie it to a tree branch in the shade. If there is even a touch of wind it will be nice and cold in 10 minutes.
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#27How is she going to open her Heineken with those nails [0:45] ?
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#28Is this new? I can remember wine coolers in British supermarkets in the early 90s where you placed a wine bottle into a receptacle, pressed a button and extracted a very cold bottle about 90 seconds later. I'm guessing they just circulated cold water round the bottle.
Whole Foods (Large American grocer targeting healthy and alternative lifestyles) still has what seems to be just that at their stores in the wine departments. It's a rather drab looking cylindrical device with a pool of water in it that swirls on button press. Now people at Whole Foods are going to be scratching their heads as to why the sudden a bunch of geeks are lining up to use the wine chiller no one has touched…
Do people not use these? People use the one at a supermarket near me all the time.
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#29There used to be a chilling device as a party store near my house. There was a tub of super-chilled green or blue liquid that was in a whirlpool of sorts, and you could dunk your just-purchased drink in there for 1 minute and it would be cold when you took it out. But doesn't beer benefit from always staying cold?
Pool of antifreeze? Who cares! In all honesty, a shared tub sounds like a horrible idea.
I'm sure the outside of your bottle/can has seen worse horrors than that. If you are concerned by that sort of thing, you should probably make a habit of wiping them off before consuming anyway.
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#30The 'Rankine vortex' is a simple model for a vortex in which the centre is in solid body rotation and the rest is a free, irrotational* vortex.
From the looks of their video, the bottle forms most of the solid body core. The velocity in the rest of the fluid goes as u~1/r and is pure tangential (streamlines are circles around the vortex centre).
This isn't anything special, it's just a pretty regular unforced vortex.
*irrotational here means that the vorticity (defined at a point) is zero, not that the system doesn't look spinny.