Instantly Chilling Beer - Mythbusters

[@umusuuk]

no joke, the beer cooling time has been maybe the most enduring thing I learned from mythbusters. If I ever drove into a lake, sure, maybe the thing about opening windows would kick in, but in just daily life, the knowledgr of how long it takes for beer to get to a primo temperature in a fridge or a freezer has been more useful.

[@DeetexSeraphine]

I think this is possibly one of the most legendary episodes across the whole series.... Buster's newfound immortality, Adam's taking absolutely _no more of it_ after the shock.... and "Big Stick, no love"

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The full story, apparently, is that the prank was actually pushed on the build team by a particular producer (who was also very keen on sowing tension between Adam and Jamie) and afterward the producer was either fired or made to quit.

[@fabrb26]

Best quick party helper to beer and soda , is to get a cold water wet kitchen roll sheet wrapped around each can/bottle and place them into the freezer. Wait 30min and enjoy, and if you forget it there don't be surprise to find your freezer open with exploded can and bottle all over the sticky wet kitchen the next morning...

[@Wozzup-i3w]

Yep... Aussies have used a piece of wet paper towel for as long as I can remember. Just wrap it around a can or bottle and put it in the freezer for 5 minutes.

[@handsome8115]

At 40:49 when Adam asks "is it ready to go?", you can see Scottie shakes her head Real homie there

[@ichiroutakashima4503]

Ah, here comes the infamous Baghdad Battery, and the start of conquest where it lead to the myths where Mythbusters tested, "No Pain, No Gain" episode, lol.

[@SinfullyHera]

Even though it was never even intended to be a battery lmao

[@omnirath]

@@SinfullyHerayou’re right it was an ancient nuclear reactor, they did some cool stuff back them

[@uhohwhy]

choka on соcka

[@klausstock8020]

@@SinfullyHera C'mon, it must have been a battery! How else did they charge their smartphones back in the days?

[@SinfullyHera]

@@klausstock8020 Are you serious? They just plugged their chargers into their wall sockets like normal people...

[@crwydryny]

Interesting thing out of all the jars found only one had the copper and iron rods set in bitumen, the rest contained thjngs like papyrus. They were not found in bagdad but khujut rabu. No archeologist believes they were batteries (this was suggested by museum director wilhelm könig) and most archeologists believe they were used for storing scrolls. The reason the battery idea is rejected is because the iron rod extends oyt of the bitumen plug, but the copper tube does not making an electric circuit impossible. König based his belief on what he believe were electroplated artefacts but evidence suggests these were fire guilded using mercury. The artefacts were looted fromnthe iraq museum in 2003 during the US invasion.

[@Lonewolf_121]

Well they say "looted" but there was no evidence they were ever real. They always refused to let anyone inspect them to see if they were real or modern made and people started questioning it, then they disappeared

[@Jack-Hands]

Also wasn't the original "Battery" about 5cm tall? The one made by the mythbusters were about 45cm tall. That size difference must account for something.

[@santiagoperman3804]

From what Adam said on his channel, some producer got fired after the electroshock incident. Imagine if he or someone had an infarction.

[@jaykay1491]

Do u remember the name of the video u r talking about?

[@thefirebird8738]

Which video did he say that on his channel?

[@WhenIWasAKitten]

I don't blame him, just watching him talk about tasers on his "Two Scenes Adam Refused to Film on MythBusters".

[@thomasjoychild4962]

Same producer who was keen on playing up the tension between Adam and Jamie.

[@anzeeh]

Not even just "some producer", but the original creator and executive producer of the show Peter Rees, much later described by the cast in sources like Kari's book as to having had been a real piece of work who did not treat the cast well at all in general and was disdained by many of them in return.

[@TheLastPhoen1x]

Based doctor Han, "connect the battery to me first" rather than endangering the patient.

[@DeetexSeraphine]

@TheLastPhoen1x was that a linkin park reference?

[@rorypuds]

Poor Adam, he really got put through it over the Mythbuster years!

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The producer who made the build team do that prank was subsequently fired, fortunately.

[@SyntheticFuture]

5:40 salt water cooling is a trick I've been using up until this day and this is where I learned it 21 years ago :D

[@michalanckoronski2673]

Scottie was cool addition to myth team

[@blankfrankie3747]

I had a MASSIVE crush on Scottie.

[@DigitalYojimbo]

this episode was the reason why scottie left the show.

[@AsheCraftingCorner]

@@DigitalYojimbo no its not

[@Bourinos02]

@@DigitalYojimbo What? Why?

[@omnirath]

@@DigitalYojimbono it’s the producer who had that idea in the first place who was fired some time after

[@timholstpetersen79]

These guys just had THE greatest job on the planet 🙂

[@Bloodbound89]

pretty simple ... get a coordless drill, a rubber pipe endcap that can hold the beer can , fix it into the drill... spin the can in ice water = ice cold beer in 1 minute :D

[@blankfrankie3747]

Oh yeah, Baghdad Battery. I've been waiting for this one.

[@Netbug]

Adam's face immediately after getting shocked always gets me... "I have been betrayed"

[@BlitzMekanika]

In a q and a many years later, he said the team didn’t want him to do it. The producer insisted. After the episode the producer no longer worked for Mythbusters, production.

[@KanuckStreams]

He was.

[@crwydryny]

Honestly got to hand it to tori as soon as he felt the zap he was "no... we're not zapping him with that"

[@Netbug]

@@BlitzMekanika Yeah, it's the same story everywhere... producers will generate as much drama as possible.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

@@BlitzMekanika same producer who'd been really pushing to play up the tension between Adam and Jamie, apparently.

[@HebuTheLoneWolf]

cant remember was it this episode where i learned the saltwater + ice combo or was it from some old yt vid but i still to this day havent given it a try xD normally im just lazy and toss the drink on a freezer for few mins after i get home from store if i got warm drinks from there and on winter i just toss them on balcony since the finnish winter at --20°C cools the drinks down quick xD

[@gordonbrinkmann]

I learned that in school before KZbin or the internet existed...

[@lunasrojas_]

Lol I just realized I'm so in love with Scottie

[@Rando_Shyte]

She's better than Kari in every way imo. Kari is annoying, pretty, but annoying and kinda useless most of the time.

[@Yvolve]

The best, fastest way to reliably cool beer is the method used by portable bars. These are commercial products and the best way is used, otherwise it loses money. These have a large reservoir with a spool of copper tube. The reservoir is filled with water and a cooling element cools it to 4 degrees C. The beer runs from the warm keg, through the very long spool, where the surface area is big enough to cool the beer to 4 C by the time it reaches the tap. For a more portable version: a cooler filled with ice cubes, crushed ice, a bit of water and a little salt. This is the Australian method and they need to work hard to keep/get their beers cold in the scorching heat.

[@N13J]

It’s the cheapest way to cool a keg in hot climates countries. Refrigerate keg cooler are never cold enough and very hard on electricity bills.

[@Yvolve]

@JimboDaBimbo-my9mx Their warm beer is about 25 degrees C and it is hot as fuck, as you know. Yours is about 5 to 10 in winter and you have snow. Although the Australian Alps (not a joke) have more snow by area than the Swiss Alps, also not a joke. Shit quality snow, but snow nonetheless.

[@Rschaltegger]

Scotty hammering the Engine, Jamy: " What are you doing?" Scotty: " I am mending the Car, I am a Dr of Engineering...Twice...BELLECI!!!!!!" Ah Scotty...doing a Clarkson

[@Fruitcupper]

*Bro messing with metals and fruit one summer, feels something weird, licks metal* "Yo check out my new invention, lick this, it'll blow your mind." "Do you think we can fit this in pots?" "You think people will buy this?" Also: I think if Adam had used water with the ice and Salt, mixed it and let it really chill the copper piping, that beer could have made it.

[@lastburning]

37:59 Say what you will, but I enjoy hearing these disagreements/arguments between Adam and Jamie. So maybe that infamous producer did something right, at least from my POV.

[@badad0166]

37:59 I suppose we now know where Jamie lands on the whole Resto-Mod craze...

[@Wozzup-i3w]

The Copper coil cooler that Jamie built has been used by Aussies at BBQ's since tapping the wooden keg went out of fashion. We call it a "Baby Boozer"

[@tristandunn4628]

That was so harsh what the did to Adam with the battery. Tori was so against doing that to start with, then seemed to change his mind. Kinda agree with Jamie about giving Buster a new head/face.

[@co2_os]

Absolutely not. If they'd changed the head then it's a generic dummy, not THE Buster.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The shock prank was actually NOT any of their idea, it was pushed very hard by a particular producer (same one who was pushing to play up the tension between Adam and Jamie) and that producer was subsequently fired.

[@clemensruis]

Oh wow. They completely cut out that part where Adam, after getting shocked, left and said that he needs some time away from them.

[@Wulfiewolf]

great episode

[@voornaam3191]

Yeah, you can cook food under a campfire. It's like an oven. So you cook your beer that way, too. Great thinking. Without lighter, the gasoline will evaporate, and THAT would cool the beer. Lighting is the moron thing, the rest is very okay.

[@deep_spaghetti]

yeah, dumping gasoline into the ground on the other hand is not a moron thing to do at all

[@zazoreal5536]

Just put beer under the sand at beach close to water... the cold ocean water will naturally just suck the heat away while the seasand will reflect light and heat away from the sand.

[@IgorAngelini]

"I rather trow china, it's sharper" You dont wanna mess with Scottie lol

[@rorypuds]

So this is where all those SF car break ins learnt about the ceramic window trick...

[@young3nsinglej]

Still can not believe they went ahead and let Adam take that shock!

[@Rando_Shyte]

It was the producers idea, he got fired shortly after this episode. He's the one who would always encourage Adam to be so crazy on camera, much to Jamies annoyance.

[@orionsteel5921]

Science plus beer = engineering

[@tomacalin86]

The Baghdad Battery is one of Adam's most hated myths... especially because of the producers kinda forced the build team to mess around with the rig Adam tested for the sheer shock value....

[@thomasjoychild4962]

It was apparently the same producer who was very keen on playing up the tension between him and Jamie. That producer was fired after they got Adam shocked.

[@brandonyoung-kemkes1128]

That’s the face of experience.

[@timholstpetersen79]

It was fucked up to subject Adam to that shock, and I get it, of course, that he was pissed off... but it's really a part of what made Mythbusters so fucking great. These days a show like that would probably be cancelled. Regarding the "ancient battery"... what was the capacity and amperage?

[@Luka1180]

"maybe we CAN" LOL

[@larspregge6420]

placing the beer in liquid nitrogen should help.

[@klausstock8020]

The LN2 might cause quite a dense fog, and you might not be able to find the beer cans for quite some time. Also, you probably don't want to stick your hands into some fog where there still might be a puddle of LN2 on the ground. Yes, I thought it was smart idea, too. In the late 1980s, when I was young and -dumb- smart and worked at a company which had a huge tank of LN2.

[@larspregge6420]

@@klausstock8020 LOL. Who doesn't make such stupid mistakes? I#ll hope, there is no permanent damage.

[@ulrichvw7048]

Ice bucket. Can or bottle in. Spin it slowly some minutes. perfect.

[@Cranio76]

Everytime I see temperature in °F I cringe :°)

[@FOSS-For-All]

so does most of the world

[@blankfrankie3747]

Why?

[@Tjescoo]

It's just another 'language' to describe the same thing

[@Howsmekowdendan]

​@@TjescooIt's not.

[@Horse-and-Butterfly]

It's easy, if it's 96°F it just means it's 96% hot

[@MonokelJohn]

2:40 I forgot about Fahrenheit and was really confused for a moment 🤣

[@AllieAngel]

Finally the eps. where the build team shocked Adam with those Angel’s wings?!? thingy things… Sorry Adam…but seen it in the opening of the show, I got curious about the story!

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The full story, apparently, is that the prank was actually pushed on the build team by a particular producer (who was also very keen on sowing tension between Adam and Jamie) and afterward the producer was either fired or made to quit.

[@jomorken4853]

Jamie should have put the he4atsink in the glass first, then poured over, slightly precooling the glass too, bt the pouring is the imortant part. Just dipping t will not work the same

[@monofame]

I am always dreaming about a world where they don’t just tell myths…wait a minute!

[@jomorken4853]

The gasoline in sand might work, but I do not think they used fire. Gasoline evaporates fast and will pull any warmth around it to evaporate. mAybe they burnt off excess gasoline after letting it sit for a while, but I do not think fire was involved. I think a fan, a frame with chicken wire on both sides, fill with charcoal, and let water drip onto it. At least aircondition

[@jmm1233]

classic salt water and ice method here too

[@RealDOOMZ]

Love the jokes and puns😂 the narrator is a bonus😂

[@TheBigBlondGuy]

at 17:30 one can see a "cooper cooler" behind jamie. doesn't that thing exist for exactly this purpose ?

[@fishingfan1500]

Adam should have mixed water in with the salt and ice in his beer chiller

[@SpeedBrain666]

Or just used the dry ice again 🤷

[@blankfrankie3747]

Dry ice, but shortened the amount of copper pipe. I'm really surprised he didn't think of that immediately.

[@christianellegaard7120]

Adam's coil would probably have worked perfectly if he had used salt water and ice instead of dry ice. I think the sand and gasoline might have had a better chance if they had used moist sand, like it would have been when the soldiers did it. Jaime's heat sink would have benefited from a larger glass.

[@theblackone89]

I always have to think about the ww2 plane pilots strapping coke under their wings, i believe it was somewhere in africa. When they landed, they had ice cold coke to drink. Altough, im not 100% sure if thats not a myth too

[@klausstock8020]

There are stories about pilots from several nations allegedly doing that, but it seems to be hard to find evidence. Beer was definitely a thing, either in kegs (to get photographic evidence, google for: Spitfire Modification XXX beer) oder six packs (attached to the skids according to least one report; IIRC that was from the 1970s, not WW2).

[@icba9292]

Genius way to put beer on business expenses costs ngl

[@RickySpanish-RS]

Why does jamie have a hole in the back of his head is that where they plug him in? 19:09

[@_optimuus_973]

I just realized i'm gonna need real ice to realize with real eyes that ice will be freezing for real. ICE 😭

[@bazra19]

I happen to like my beer warm.

[@Martinchox]

at 17:30 isn't that a can spinner thing? The ones you put ice and the machine spin it and cool it in 1 minute? They dont show it using it.

[@christianellegaard7120]

I think the sand and gasoline might have had a better chance if they had used moist sand, like it would have been when the soldiers did it. Adam's coil would probably have worked perfectly if he had used salt water and ice instead of dry ice. Jaime's heat sink would have benefited from a larger glass.

[@slinkytreekreeper]

No. Yup. Nope.

[@christianellegaard7120]

@@slinkytreekreeper Two out of three ain't bad.

[@admiralstiffplank]

Their use of the Fahrenheit scale drives me nuts

[@uriituw]

🤘

[@idontknowu231]

finally the episode where adam got zapped and angry (rightfully so)

[@fishingfan1500]

As soon as I saw that contraption I thought "Awww yeaahhhh" 😂

[@at10desu]

That wasn't anger. That was shock because he trusted them

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The shock prank was actually NOT any of their idea, it was pushed very hard by a particular producer (same one who was pushing to play up the tension between Adam and Jamie) and that producer was subsequently fired.

[@FrostshadowStudios0310]

35:00 I came only to see Tori get hit with an electric shock of approximately 10 kilovolts, but only approximately. 0.02 amps.

[@FrostshadowStudios0310]

And at the same time, I came to see the hard lesson Tori has earned from that electric shock.

[@mattilindstrom]

The Baghdad battery is seemingly credible on the surface, but in closer examination falls apart bit by bit. We have no idea why the parts are related and what their meaning is, and there's no evidence of an acidic liquid filling. There's some corrosion compatible with weathering though. The truth is that we have no idea what it was (only a hypothesis about it being a storage vessel for sacred writings), and using or just detecting a single cell voltage back then is exceedingly improbable. Even a dozen of of the presumed devices would yield pretty much nothing, and how would the ancients have known the principles of electrical wiring.

[@samutraifin]

guess whos now using ice+water+salt now?

[@donwest5387]

your beer cooler is the same as a "cool can" used on drag cars

[@SirHorned19]

42:53 Oh boy.. Ben looks like he got hit by a train since last time he was on the show..

[@ooltimu]

Did they fill the copper rods with tar? I thought it was only used on the top. Makes no sense to fill it with tar as it needs as much surface as possible

[@d4slaimless]

Tori felt pretty bad about that. He knew Adam for a long time.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The full story, apparently, is that the prank was actually pushed on the build team by a particular producer (who was also very keen on sowing tension between Adam and Jamie) and afterward the producer was either fired or made to quit.

[@mato219]

Adam screwed himself up for the beer cooling. He should have used just a wider pipe and the same dry ice just less of it. Otherwise his idea was great.

[@christianellegaard7120]

Adam's coil would probably have worked perfectly if he had used salt water and ice instead of dry ice. Jaime's heat sink would have benefited from a larger glass.

[@jbarroso22]

Did I see a Modelo beer? Nice

[@cejannuzi]

They shouldn't have done that to Adam. But it wasn't Scottie who made that decision. So that myth busted.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The full story, apparently, is that the prank was actually pushed on the build team by a particular producer (who was also very keen on sowing tension between Adam and Jamie) and afterward the producer was either fired or made to quit.

[@jeffreylong9405]

Cooling beer by CO2 extinguisher has been done by Navy squids since at least the Korean War .

[@BrillPappin]

Nah, should have replaced Buster's head and feet too.

[@JohnVenterd4d]

Nitrogen I the first

[@user0000user]

Who are the Mythbusters??

DO YOU FEEL GOD???

[@ComicusFreemanius]

"Lived-in face and all"

[@9A4GEMilan]

Wait! How to you mean to evaporate water with a gasoline, when there is no water, just dry sand?

[@PanthereaLeonis]

The point is that as just like the evaporative cooling with water pulling energy from the surroundings to become vapor, because the burning gasoline supposedly wants to be in its more stable, low energy form, it would draw energy from the surroundings to stay lit, cooling the surroundings. Theoretically sound, but the exothermic reaction of the fire cancels it out.

[@9A4GEMilan]

@@PanthereaLeonis I am not sure, but just evaporating fuel may do evaporative cooling. No fire needed. What you think?

[@christianellegaard7120]

I think the sand and gasoline might have had a better chance if they had used moist sand, like it would have been when the soldiers did it.

[@9A4GEMilan]

@@christianellegaard7120 Yes, moist sand. I think they need to revisit their tests.

[@Kwauhn.]

@@9A4GEMilan You need something that evaporates really quickly, which is basically exactly what the fire extinguisher does with CO2.

[@TeslaNick2]

Does anyone else feel sorry for Buster ?

[@donwest5387]

I think the beer is going to go through too fast

[@alanrose4827]

Why not try wet sand?

[@pmcKANE]

I remember when this aired, the look of abject guilt on Tory's face.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The full story, apparently, is that the prank was actually pushed on the build team by a particular producer (who was also very keen on sowing tension between Adam and Jamie) and afterward the producer was either fired or made to quit.

[@egeerdem8272]

build team should have never happened

[@thedawntrader1613]

Liquid carbon dioxide... Nice!

[@reaganching1967]

I'm such a wuss. I can't even look when adam gat zapped even though a have already seen it before. 😅

[@iamalive82]

Hey, if you have liquid nitrogen, why not put the six pack in that? Scotty also perfectly points out how impossible it is somebody would create a battery without advanced knowledge using primitive materials. Wherever that knowledge came from, it’s the obvious answer.

[@jocax188723]

experimentation, trial and error, and use of the scientific method?

[@christianellegaard7120]

Same way that whoever did invent the battery did it: curiosity and experimentation.

[@iamalive82]

Look, if you know when and how batteries came into use in modern times, you can see my point. Nearly prehistoric batteries and their creation is utterly baffling and that they would not be improved upon or even have continued use is making my point for me. I don’t pretend to know where the knowledge came from, but it’s ridiculous to think someone would work out how to make one, let alone fall ass backwards into its creation. I say someone knew how a battery worked but only had these materials to make one. Edit: and to add to this once I did further research on this, ‘no archaeologist believes this is a battery’ is prominent on Wikipedia. Everything appears to have been looted or destroyed in the Iraq war. I’m not saying it wasn’t a forgery or a pre Roman alchemist’s product. That does not take away from my point how something like this is absolutely unprecedented. And what is normal for the university gate keeper system is their argument about KNOWING what it is not without having a clue what it even is. Sorry, doesn’t cut it.

[@Barnaclebeard]

Dragon skin? More like BAD dragon skin

[@fundays1]

I like cheese

[@COALEDasICE]

Me too, but you should just buy gold for what cheese costs.

[@angusmctwangstick4079]

Then trade that gold for cheese because gold and pickle sandwiches don't hit the same.

[@rhammond7517]

Law's like this self-defense crap only stop the people who follow them

[@CaptjBelk]

If you have a cordless drill, put the can on ice, put the drill chuck against the can, activate drill….cold beer in 30 seconds!

[@TehPwnerer]

The Vietnam story is likely the same as having to get blinker fluid, or ice Max but a bit more practically stupid if you fall for this you slow

[@roryoutdoors5431]

BEER GOOOOOD! Napster Bad! FIRE BAAAAAD!

[@crazycurax5406]

super cringe 30:00 wearing no mask doing carving :/

[@garrett2439]

Jamie comes off poorly in this episode.

[@mocko69]

ISTG these guys never washed their hands.

[@zbigniewrichard8291]

The acupuncturist is a quack. Never go to Asian 'doctors'.

[@mawns]

So bad prank... wrong to begin with, no potential to be funny, when asked (i e failing to prank) they lied about it, and worst of all, no mythbusting reason whatsoever to do it. If that is not a shitty "prank", I don't know what is.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The full story, apparently, is that the prank was actually pushed on the build team by a particular producer (who was also very keen on sowing tension between Adam and Jamie) and afterward the producer was either fired or made to quit.

[@ignaciomercadovillagra9119]

Idk about you but in this episode everybody looks hella hot

[@christopherdean1326]

Scottie ALWAYS looks hottest....

[@joakimronnback2203]

My question is: What hould the ancient iraqis do with the electricity? Run their stoves? Or the traffic lights? 😂

[@AnnaCurser]

38° thats pretty warm. thats body temperature

[@connardman]

It's in Fahrenheit. That give us 3.3 degrees Celsius when converted. It's a bit too cold IMHO.

[@HQMan2008]

Don't forget that this was an USA show and they use the stupid Freedom units.

[@DageLV]

its odd how mythbusters use measurements which have no meaning. 25 to 35 sure that's a big difference but how many baby geese is that?

[@voornaam3191]

These Fahrenheits, please switch to Kelvin or Celcius. Sixty? That is almost BOILING, ah no, these are Yanks, they don't know they still live in the past.

[@nattythepanda4692]

Oh my god, dude. Yall are more annoying than vegans.

[@tookitogo]

Sure, once you _completely_ get rid of imperial units in your own country. No more 1/2” shower hoses, no more car tires with inch hub sizes, no more 1/4” camera tripod screws, no more aviation altitudes in feet, etc. Then we can talk. (I live in Switzerland, and like the rest of Europe, old measurements still show up in certain areas, especially plumbing. At work - I work at a university workshop - we deal with tubing in inches every day.)

[@charleediaven6278]

Please canned beer is pedestrian and way too average. Drink from a cold bottle of beer and it tastes better. The aluminum and other crap in canned beer changes the taste because of different metals and acids in the mouth and on the can. At the beach be prepared. A cooler of ice is the best way to have fun. All this is for the sub standard beer party goer, straight off of their shark finned Cadillacs thinking it is style and it is not even show and go. LOl.

[@Kwauhn.]

Nobody is having fun on the beach with a person who lectures others on how to drink beer 🙄