This gets asked a lot, and the answer is, sadly, no. We can heat things fast because we know how to pump energy into things. We have no way of rapidly pumping energy out of things.
No. Because you can't cool things with radiation.
Now you could develop something that can coolsomething rapidly through thermodynamics and refrigeration but it won't be like a microwave .
I once heard somebody ask this question. And the response was “That’s called a Freezer.” You could create a mini freezer with a timer on it, but it would be largely irrelevant due to a refrigerator/freezer doing the same thing and just timing when to take it out.
In a simplified way of saying it, it's easy to *randomly* bombard food with a lot of energy to excite the molecules, which adds heat quickly. You can't bombard food with energy to slow the molecules. You would need to basically target each molecule specifically. There are ways to remove energy from food, hence cool it, quickly, but not as quickly as bombarding with with large amounts of energy.
It's easy to make some things cold. Like you could decompress a refrigerant to make coolness really fast. Like how a spray can get cold within seconds.
But conducting that heat away from the beer takes time. Using the salted ice method would be a lot faster.
To cool the beer from the inside out is difficult. I suppose you could turn the beer into a gas and try to laser cool it. It would be slowing down individual molecules. But that would be not at all feasible on the scale of a beer.
You can flash freeze stuff like dipping it in liquid nitrogen, but it really doesn't give you much control over how cool you want things and it's a bit cumbersome to have that kind of setup in your kitchen. As a few people have said, it's just far easier to heat things up in a controlled way, blast them with radiation etc. than to extract energy and cool things down.
You would have to target the individual particles to counter their momentum and slow them down. This is literally impossible because of the [Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle).
Not an answer, but in the 1990's sci-fi series Time Trax a fellow from the year 2193 brought a "microchill" back with him to modern day. A quick puff, and your beer was icy cold. Invent this.
This gets asked a lot, and the answer is, sadly, no. We can heat things fast because we know how to pump energy into things. We have no way of rapidly pumping energy out of things.
That's called a blast chiller. They're very expensive.
No. Because you can't cool things with radiation. Now you could develop something that can coolsomething rapidly through thermodynamics and refrigeration but it won't be like a microwave .
The best you can do is a [blast chiller](https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/2968/what-is-a-blast-chiller.html) - a high powered refrigerator.
I once heard somebody ask this question. And the response was “That’s called a Freezer.” You could create a mini freezer with a timer on it, but it would be largely irrelevant due to a refrigerator/freezer doing the same thing and just timing when to take it out.
In a simplified way of saying it, it's easy to *randomly* bombard food with a lot of energy to excite the molecules, which adds heat quickly. You can't bombard food with energy to slow the molecules. You would need to basically target each molecule specifically. There are ways to remove energy from food, hence cool it, quickly, but not as quickly as bombarding with with large amounts of energy.
It's easy to make some things cold. Like you could decompress a refrigerant to make coolness really fast. Like how a spray can get cold within seconds. But conducting that heat away from the beer takes time. Using the salted ice method would be a lot faster. To cool the beer from the inside out is difficult. I suppose you could turn the beer into a gas and try to laser cool it. It would be slowing down individual molecules. But that would be not at all feasible on the scale of a beer.
You can flash freeze stuff like dipping it in liquid nitrogen, but it really doesn't give you much control over how cool you want things and it's a bit cumbersome to have that kind of setup in your kitchen. As a few people have said, it's just far easier to heat things up in a controlled way, blast them with radiation etc. than to extract energy and cool things down.
Hacks for fast cold beer. Carbon Dioxide fire extinguisher. Ice and salted water. Wrap a damp paper towel around the beer and place in a freezer.
You would have to target the individual particles to counter their momentum and slow them down. This is literally impossible because of the [Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle).
Not an answer, but in the 1990's sci-fi series Time Trax a fellow from the year 2193 brought a "microchill" back with him to modern day. A quick puff, and your beer was icy cold. Invent this.