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Student’s beer-chilling miracle
A NEW Zealand student has invented a device that can turn a warm can of beer into a chilled drink within seconds, just in time for summer.
Kent Hodgson, 22, of Albany, invented the gadget after being confronted with the problem of warm beer while at a barbecue this year. He has called the invention Huski, which he intends to patent.“You have plastic cooling cells, which are pressed down into the dock which houses the liquid carbon dioxide.
“The liquid CO2 expands and is pressurised into dry ice in the base of the cooling cells . . . in a moment. You then pop it into your drink and then proceed from there as you normally would.
“The cooling power is almost instant and is utilised for several minutes and it doesn’t dilute the drink like ice would.”
Dry ice has a cooling capacity almost four times that of the same amount of regular ice, with a surface temperature of minus 78.5C. One canister can fill thirty 330ml bottles at a cost of 6c each – an ideal alternative for those who do not want to lug around an Esky during the summer.
