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Wednesday
May132015

There’s a chill on my can.

One of the things I found at the “tailgate” part of the National Hardware Show was the Chill Puck, a way to cool your can of beer or soda. Here’s what Amazon said about it, which makes it sound important, indeed! “The Chill Puck uses gel NASA originally designed to cool the nuclear reactors of satellites in orbit during the cold war. The design of each puck maximizes the surface area connecting the ice pack and the can. This connection is what sucks the heat out of the beer and into the ice pack, keeping your beer cold. The gel in a Chill Puck is modified to lower the freezing point of the puck to get colder than ice. The Chill Bands hold the puck to the can with suction and will not slip off. Lastly, the 4 small bottom legs prevent condensation from hitting your coffee table so it's really a coaster too. Over the course of an hour 1 Chill Puck will keep your beer 8-10 degrees colder then your friends naked beer. You will really notice the difference in the last third of your drink. Chills Pucks can be kept in a freezer or ice cooler.” And now back to me. I put two cans of chilled soda on a table in my backyard. One had a Chill Puck from the freezer attached to the bottom. At first the two cans felt about the same amount of coldness, but as we reached hour two, the Chill Puck can was colder, especially toward the bottom of the can. You can see they don’t claim miracles for Chill Puck, which I like, and I certainly think it will keep your drink cooler than without using one. Remember they only lock onto 12 or 16-ounce cans, not bottles.

http://www.chillpuck.com/

If you buy 3 of their 3 packs, you get a 4th one free. As a test, I put them in my cart and with shipping it came to just about $36 for a dozen of them. So they would be just about $3 each, assuming you want a dozen of them. 

See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1518 

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