The easiest way to fight the heat is to drink cool water. Therefore, the issue of fast cooling of drinks in the warm season is quite relevant. Of course, you can just put the bottle in the freezer, but this is far from the fastest way.
Use a refrigerator or freezer
The simplest means of cooling is the refrigerator. However, the refrigerator will cool down a liter bottle of water or other drink from forty-five minutes to two hours, so this method, albeit the simplest, is by no means the fastest.
The freezer will cope with the cooling much faster. To further speed up the process, wrap the bottle in a damp towel or tissue before placing it in the freezer. Moisture evaporating from the surface of the towel will cool the bottle much faster. Do not overdo it in the freezer, otherwise the drink will freeze and take time to thaw. Using a damp towel, the bottle can be cooled to an acceptable temperature in about twenty minutes.
For the next method, you will need ice. In general, a small supply of ice cubes in the freezer can make life a lot easier. The easiest way is to put ice in a glass and pour the desired water there, which will very quickly become extremely cold. However, this method is only suitable for those drinks that cannot be spoiled by diluting them with melted ice.
You can use ice to chill the entire bottle, not just a portion of the contents. To do this, pour cold tap water into a suitable large container, add as much ice as possible and place a bottle of drink in it. Cold water will cool the bottle faster than cold air because it conducts the temperature much better.
How to chill drinks outdoors
If you want to chill a drink bottle outdoors or your refrigerator just broke, you can use the tools at hand. Find a piece of any fabric (this could be your spare shirt or T-shirt), wrap it very tightly around the bottle, securing the ends so that they do not unravel. Then pour water over the resulting structure. Water from a pond, river, or stream will do. Don't worry, it won't get inside a tight, sealed bottle. This "technical" water can be of any temperature, even if it is warm, everything will go well.
With this method, as in the case of the freezer, it's all about the evaporation of water, which takes a significant amount of heat, which leads to cooling. So the only thing left for you to do is to put the bottle wrapped and doused with water in a draft in the shade. The stronger the wind, the faster the cooling process will go. In most cases, half an hour is enough to reach the required temperature.
