Photo of the Day: Exploded Frozen Soda Bottles
The refrigerator at Serious Eats headquarters is infamous for containing foodstuffs long forgotten or those with unknown origins. But even I was surprised to open the freezer this morning and see soda popsicles—encased in large shards of glass. Looks like someone forgot to take their chilled bottles of Fizzy Lizzy out of the freezer.
So in case you didn't know, soda bottles should not be left in the freezer. Otherwise they will explode in a grisly death and line your freezer shelves with icy soda guts.
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15 Comments:
I am so glad to know that I am not the only forgetful one around. I recently did this with a whole thing of Sparkling Grape. ugh.
jdshd at 8:02PM on 08/20/08
also, you should peel off.
the_o at 8:15PM on 08/20/08
I always set a timer for 1 hour otherwise i would never remember to take it out. You clean your freezer a few times (or 20) you start to remember to take it out. :)
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love2cook at 8:22PM on 08/20/08
We have a sign on our fridge at work forbidding anyone from putting sodas in the freezer. This is due to cans exploding three times in one month. We are a forgetful lot.
swaaaan at 8:23PM on 08/20/08
Ouch... :(
JEP at 8:32PM on 08/20/08
at first glance, i thought they were exploding octopus tentacles.
Steamy Kitchen at 8:46PM on 08/20/08
My god, something seriously similar happened to me.
When I was a wee child in grade school, my father accidentally left two cans of Coke in the freezer (and he's still not sure why...). They stayed in there for a couple of days and exploded in the middle of the night.
We were convinced someone had just broken into our house. :0
jazzinx at 8:53PM on 08/20/08
Ok, I'm going to have to one-up everybody here.
About 15 years ago, my buddy Z was about to have a birthday. Our friend D wanted to do something special, so he decided to spring for a bottle of Dom Pérignon. Anyway, we wanted to hide it from Z until D got home from work, so amazingly I suggested the freezer since Z would have no reason to get in there AND it would keep the Dom cold.
The bottle exploded.
We made sure that there was no glass in the remaining "Dom slush" and proceeded to eat it out of cups with a spoon.
Helldog at 9:16PM on 08/20/08
This has happened to me (with diet coke cans) more times than I'd like to admit. The worst is when it exploded inside the ice maker, and all of our ice for the next week tasted like diluted, flat diet coke. Even a diet coke addict like myself has to say that's pretty gross.
ChristineB at 10:21PM on 08/20/08
i do like love2cook does....just set a timer for about 45 minutes......never fails...........
onepercent99 at 7:52AM on 08/21/08
It was totally Zimmer's fault, wasn't it?
asiddons at 10:20AM on 08/21/08
If you'll notice, somebody was subtly tagged, and he remains the alleged culprit.
Erin Zimmer at 10:48AM on 08/21/08
Erin, haha I noticed the tag! Poor guy.
I was at a family bbq once and someone brought a case of beer and he wanted it cold fast. He put it in the freezer and put me in charge of making sure they came out of the freezer before they exploded! Dangerous job, but I was up for the challenge.
ag3208 at 12:16PM on 08/21/08
I slashed my hand really badly once reaching into my freezer looking for something, not remembering a beer bottle I had left in there which had subsequently exploded... Be careful kids!!!!!
simon at 2:36PM on 08/21/08
Ow!
Take a lesson from the Mythbusters: cooler + ice + salt = cold drinks fast!
mschlock at 4:32PM on 08/21/08