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chilling soda water?
Anyone have any ways of chilling soda water once it's gone through the
carbonator and before it gets dispensed out of a soda gun? I'm thinking about perhaps trying one of those office water cooler units. Most of them have a stainless steel or plastic resivior for the water so there won't be any copper or brass that will touch the soda water. I was also thinking of a small fridge with a 20 foot coil of SS tubing in it or even putting the carbonator tank into the mini fridge. Any thoughts? thanks all! Mike B |
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Most commercial installations of carbonators run the water through a cold
plate in the bottom of the ice dispenser. Your best bet would probably be the small fridge, although you'll want to immerse the coil in a bucket of water, since the cold air in the fridge does not contain enough mass to cool much more than the first few squirts. -Brett drunkenly bellowed in news:1102910834.629334.33710 @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com: > Anyone have any ways of chilling soda water once it's gone through the > carbonator and before it gets dispensed out of a soda gun? > > I'm thinking about perhaps trying one of those office water cooler > units. Most of them have a stainless steel or plastic resivior for the > water so there won't be any copper or brass that will touch the soda > water. > > I was also thinking of a small fridge with a 20 foot coil of SS > tubing in it or even putting the carbonator tank into the mini fridge. > Any thoughts? > > thanks all! > Mike B > > -- "They who drink beer will think beer." -Washington Irving |
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Brett Hetherington writes:
> Your best bet would probably be the small fridge, although you'll want > to immerse the coil in a bucket of water, since the cold air in the > fridge does not contain enough mass to cool much more than the first > few squirts. Nope. Flash chilling requires a reservoir of phase-change heat sink: melting ice, boiling refrigerant. Thermal mass (heat exchanger in contact with air or water) will not flash chill. |
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It'll work as long as the OP doesn't expect to put too much volume through
it. I was not thinking of flash cooling. I assumed that the coil would be of some length, say 25 feet, plenty of time to cool a reasonable amount of soda water. A 5 gallon bucket of refrigerated water represents a heat sink to be reckoned with, given enough surface area. Of course, the best method for the op would be to invest in soda kegs and a refrigerator so he could batch carbonate. I have a commercial carbonator, and realized quickly that it was serious overkill. But trying to tell a man with a mission he's on the wrong track is like ****ing on a house fire... -Brett Richard J Kinch > drunkenly bellowed in : > > Nope. Flash chilling requires a reservoir of phase-change heat sink: > melting ice, boiling refrigerant. Thermal mass (heat exchanger in > contact with air or water) will not flash chill. > -- "They who drink beer will think beer." -Washington Irving |
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It'll work as long as the OP doesn't expect to put too much volume through
it. I was not thinking of flash cooling. I assumed that the coil would be of some length, say 25 feet, plenty of time to cool a reasonable amount of soda water. A 5 gallon bucket of refrigerated water represents a heat sink to be reckoned with, given enough surface area. Of course, the best method for the op would be to invest in soda kegs and a refrigerator so he could batch carbonate. I have a commercial carbonator, and realized quickly that it was serious overkill. But trying to tell a man with a mission he's on the wrong track is like ****ing on a house fire... -Brett Richard J Kinch > drunkenly bellowed in : > > Nope. Flash chilling requires a reservoir of phase-change heat sink: > melting ice, boiling refrigerant. Thermal mass (heat exchanger in > contact with air or water) will not flash chill. > -- "They who drink beer will think beer." -Washington Irving |
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Brett Hetherington writes:
> It'll work as long as the OP doesn't expect to put too much volume > through it. "Too much", unfortunately, is less than even a single serving. > A 5 gallon bucket of refrigerated water represents a heat sink > to be reckoned with, given enough surface area. No, because it's temperature rises, as does the output, as it is used. You need a phase-change source to have controlled output temperatures. Every commercial beverage chiller works on this principle. Thermal-mass chilling is inefficient and costly per unit of delivery. |
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Brett Hetherington writes:
> It'll work as long as the OP doesn't expect to put too much volume > through it. "Too much", unfortunately, is less than even a single serving. > A 5 gallon bucket of refrigerated water represents a heat sink > to be reckoned with, given enough surface area. No, because it's temperature rises, as does the output, as it is used. You need a phase-change source to have controlled output temperatures. Every commercial beverage chiller works on this principle. Thermal-mass chilling is inefficient and costly per unit of delivery. |
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