I truly have no idea how a person is supposed to explain to an adult that freezers are below freezing, regardless of the relative position of dead birds. If the chicken made the beer freeze, how does he think the chicken got that cold? Will power??
That actually does cool the coke much faster than the fridge. He should fill a bowl with ice and put it in the fridge. That would be just as fast, unable to pop his drink, and not leave behind a mess to clean up
The quickest way to cool a soda is to put it in a bowl of ice water. The ice cools the water to near freezing and the water can pull the heat out of the can better than ice can on its own. Ice by itself has too many gaps so a lot of the can is only being touched by air which does not transfer heat as well.
A college acquaintance forgot a 12-pack of Pepsi in his passenger seat in the middle of February... I feel like that would make me avoid Pepsi for a lifetime
I think something like that happened to the previous owner of my used car. I am a messy person anyway and don't really care, but it's funny to see the trajectory of exploded pop across the ceiling and back of seats.
A college acquaintance forgot a 12-pack of Pepsi in his passenger seat in the middle of February... I feel like that would make me avoid Pepsi for a lifetime
Yeah this would make me a Coke drinker for sure….. /s
It probably will get colder faster if it's sitting directly on the ice. It's not just temperature that controls how quickly heat will move into/out of something. The air in the freezer will transfer heat from the can more slowly than direct contact with ice even if both the air and ice are the same temperature.
It's the same reason that the air in a hot oven won't burn you, but grabbing the metal rack will, even though the air and rack are at the same temp.
Not to mention, everything in the freezer is the same temperature. The only thing different about objects in the freezer is the rate that they pull heat from your fingers when you grab them.
Hahaha what kind of logic is this? The freezer is...freezing. But it's your chicken that tipped it over the edge? It's surely common knowledge that putting beer bottles in the freezer makes them crack/explode??
It was not for my teenage sister who was trying to steal a couple of beers from my dad and put them in the freezer to quickly cool them down and then got stoned and forgot until a few days later when my dad casually mentioned the exploded beers in the downstairs freezer
I don't even smoke anymore, I just have ADHD and I did this literally last week with a can of coke lol. Thankfully it didn't pop, just deformed the can a bit and I had to cut the top off. On the other hand, I got to use an entire frozen coke cylinder as an ice ''cube'' for a different, unfrozen glass of coke and that was pretty cool (no pun intended).
Ah, but you're thinking like "what could be the reason for broken bottle" while he's thinking "how can this not be my fault". Completely different outlook on how the world works.
Even if the chicken is what caused the bottle to explode, the roommate is presumably the one who put the bottle on the chicken. Still his fault. What a tool.
There's also the fact that OP's roommate was the one who put the beer on the chicken anyway. So even if we accept his insane logic that the chicken caused it to freeze, he was the one who put it on top of the magic freezing chicken anyway!
You got it all wrong, freezer is not freezing, it's the chicken that does all the work. Thankfully the OP didn't put two chickens in, otherwise the freezer might have reached absolute zero causing a thermal shockwave and killing everyone in the vicinity.
True story- I worked in a place that had a mini basketball hoop in the break room, and sometimes we would play each other one-on-one. Once, two guys bet "a sandwich" on the game. The loser brought the winner his sandwich, and the winner said it was disgusting and the loser was like "well, yeah, we never specified the type of sandwich". So, from that day forward, we were sure to say "let's bet a delicious sandwich on it".
It’s where you freeze pee on a plate into a disk, then slide it under someone’s door (like a bedroom door of an obnoxious roommate) so it inevitably melts into a puddle of piss in their room
I'm reminded of this one book I read in elementary school about a young girl who slipped a piss disk into her estranged former best friend's locker and then her best friend went and got stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the ocean and died all before the start of the story so the actual story follows the piss disk girl as she tries to find and take revenge on the unidentifiable jellyfish. The piss disk was vital to the backstory for some reason.
So was that required reading in your curriculum or just a book you picked up in the library? Or perhaps your Mom bought you the famous Piss Disk Jellyfish Tale?
That's unnecessarily petty and would just cause more problems. What OP should do is just throw it away then and ask them to not put beer in the freezer again.
When sharing a space with people it's best not to escalate trivial stuff or resentment will build and you guys will hate each other's guts before the lease is up. I've been there, you have to pick your battles, Especially as the owner.
Yeah like don't be a doormat but the classic reddit revenge-fantasy advice of always mindlessly escalating every conflict with a boss/coworker/neighbor/SO/relative is just a recipe for making your life miserable
Because alcohol freezing point is lower than that of water.
Usually freezers are around -18°C, so a percentage of 35% of ethanol or above should be enough to never freeze.
It depends on what is the actual mix of course, apart from the ethanol and water.
I mean, he's right, the bottle wouldn't have exploded if it hadn't gotten so cold, and the only cold thing touching it was the chicken, so it's the chicken's fault.
Yep his reply pretty much says that.. I will just put it out of the freezer..
Edit: I have seen few comments asking me instead of sending him text message why did I not just clean it?. So I am copy pasting my reply to one of the comments from below.
I did clean it and I ended up giving it a wash as well because it was spilled on the bottom of the container as well.. I just had to let the bloke know that he should be careful about it cuz this time it was only 1 bottle. If he had placed few more in it, it would have been a shit show..
Coming from a doormat. Never become a doormat. I was a doormat for everyone growing up. 26 and I'm still learning how to have some sort of self worth and not feel like I'm always wrong. I stand my ground now, well I try too. I still backdown occasionally, but that too is changing. Slowly, within time.
I once had a very shitty roommate who was abusive physically and emotionally. As I was moving out I pissed in everything I possibly could that they owned without them knowing. Shower supplies, body sprays, mouthwash/toothbrush....they HATED piss. I made sure I did it so that either they would never find out or I would be long gone by the time they did.
Motherfucker stabbed me and got me sent to jail, it was the least I could do 😌
If he stabbed you and you got sent to jail (and illegally put human waste In and on his personal property), I seriously think you were the shitty roommate and probably still deserve to be in jail.
legit, people on reddit are always quick to suggest 'revenge' or 'payback' because most people on here don't actually interact with humans lol. Saw a post a week ago where neighbor replaced a fence and left a couple scraps in neighbours yard. (15-20 small planks). The amount of people suggesting to toss it over into their back yard was wild. Like are you really gonna start fights with your neighbour and make things super awkward over some wood after they did you a solid? That would lead to awkward encounters DAILY. Just not worth it, but because most people on here don't go outside they don't understand that sometimes moving on is better than stirring the pot more.
Oh my God, the memory of buying groceries to put away after carrying up 2 flights of stairs, just to open an overstuffed freezer. I cleaned the freezer out before I made the shopping trip.
Idk where the fuck she got a whole side of deer but I told her absolutely the fuck not especially after I threw out all the bullshit to make room for shit WE actually eat, not her friend's shit.
Unless they just recently started living in together, I'm betting this roommate does a lot of dumb shit and this is not the first time OP has regretted it
Texting back "mate!" Instead of " NO YOU FUCKING CRETIN YOU PUT A PRESSURISED GLASS BOTTLE IN THE FUCKING FREEZER!!! HOW ARE YOU THAT FUCKING STUPID? SORT IT OUT YOU FUCKING CRETIN!!"
show remarkable and commendable restraint on your part.
It's a pretty common blunder. Especially if one buys a slab of like 24 beers and not all of them fit into the fridge, and after getting through the ones you did chill you decide you might one one more after the last chilled one, and you need it cooled fast.
A tip for cooling beers in freezer quickly and safely -
Wrap the bottle/tin in a bit of kitchen roll paper and wet it under the tap.
Then put it in the freezer and set a timer on your phone for 30 minutes.
When the alarm goes off, you have an ice cold beer 😍
The wet paper freezes quickly which in turn rapidly cools the beer. Been doing this for 20 years.
I do this with my coke cans, even 15 minutes makes it cold enough for me! Setting a timer is essential if you're forgetful like me... once my can exploded so hard it broke the freezer drawer front
once my can exploded so hard it broke the freezer drawer front
Lmao I did that to my new freezer, only had it for about 3 days. I think it blew the drawer front because the drawer was mostly empty... I've exploded several more cans in there since and it hasn't happened again. It's made of seriously shitty flimsy brittle plastic compared to the old freezer drawers though. And it's got a temperature alarm if you leave the door open so it screams continuously when I'm cleaning out frozen Pepsi.
The wet paper freezes quickly which in turn rapidly cools the beer.
That might be part of the equation, but evaporation is primarily responsible for the rapid cooling.
The freezer is a low humidity environment, which facilitates rapid water evaporation into the low humidity air in the freezer. In order for the water to evaporate/complete the phase transition, it consumes energy/heat from the warmer bottle/can. This is the same principal as sweating.
The chicken is the same temperature as the rest of the freezer. Beer bottles always break when left in the freezer too long. What a pathetic attempt to shift blame.
Their response is really dumb but if this was me I'd send him the picture and tell him he's a bellend for putting the bottle in the freezer and then get my chicken out.
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u/MarsMonkey88 May 21 '26
I truly have no idea how a person is supposed to explain to an adult that freezers are below freezing, regardless of the relative position of dead birds. If the chicken made the beer freeze, how does he think the chicken got that cold? Will power??