A Heat Wave Is No Time to Be Serving Drinks That Aren't Cold Enough

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Most people don't get drinks cold enough or keep drinks cold enough and as heat waves become more common, it's time to fix that. A trained chef and cold drinks fanatic shares her method for keeping every kind of beverage cold, from cans to bottles to pitcher drinks — and the best coolers and koozies for the job.

Margaret Eby is currently the Deputy Food Director at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has previously held a position as Senior Editor at MyRecipes, Food & Wine and Food52. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and The New York Review of Books, and she has written two books.on record because that was true last summer and the summer before that.

There is no place for tepid liquids during a heat event, but we need to go beyond that. None of this “slightly lower than body temperature” nonsense. None of the “a little bit chilled” garbage. When I pick up a beverage, I would like for it to be as close to freezing without being an actual block of ice as possible. If it hurts my hand a little to hold it, that’s great. That’s why I have — and recommend — an extensive koozie collection.

Are you one of those people who insist that metabolically, colder drinks do not cool you down as much as hot drinks? OK, I reluctantly acknowledge you. Yes,, which might cool you down more effectively than a frosty one. But on a 95-degree day, who can face down a cup of hot tea? Not me. Restaurants, at least where I live, have largely not gotten the memo. A large, straight-from-the-tap carafe of water accompanied by little thimble cups? Please. I understand ice is expensive to produce.

If the cooler is outside, I put a blanket over it. My most hardcore cooler friends employ one of those silvery emergency blankets that reflect the sun away from the cooler. I have not obtained one yet, but the summer is young. I also have not yet messed around with dry ice because I fear that I will lose a finger, but I understand that it is the ultimate in cooling technologies for long camping trips, and I respect it.Once I remove my beverage from the cooler, I put it directly into a koozie.

If I would rather have your beverage in a glass than from a can, then that glass will be coming directly from my freezer. If it’s the kind of beverage that I’d like to sip rather than chug, and one where the addition of ice would be ill-advised I advocate for swapping out that glass for a fresh cold one from the freezer every 30 minutes. No one wants to drink warm gin.

 

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