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To: shades who wrote (56985)	3/28/2006 11:22:49 AM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Yes indeed it time once again for another Mish Household Tip. Practical advice for the practical homeowner. I have found from actual experience over the years that pop cans are far more likely to explode in the freezer than beer cans. If you are apt to forget you put something in the freezer to cool it off, please remember that pop cans are far more likely to explode than beer cans. In field tested (accidental) trials, beer cans will explode only about 2% of the time or so. Pop cans will explode about 90% of the time. (Your results may vary) But, I can say without a doubt that beer cans are likely to make a far bigger mess of things, and beer flavoured ice somehow is generally more revolting for most purposes than say a slight orange or lemon taste to the ice if you do not do a perfect cleanup job. Does our research stop there? Of course not. Further compelling research shows that carbonation might be a crucial factor in the size of the mess made. If one is to have an exploding can of something in the freezer then the choice of preference is clearly Minute Maid Lemonaid. I drink the light variety but I guess it will not make much of a difference. This stuff does not seem to be carbonated. In our latest overnight test I can report that two out of two cans exploded last night, one ripping apart in a clean split down the side, the other blowing the pop top off. Little mess was made from this combination. In the case of beer it is probably the alcohol that keeps the cans from freezing up enough to explode, but when they do, that alcohol slurry is likely to go flying everywhere. One more point: it seems that one is less apt to forget about a beer in the freezer than a can of pop in the first place (but again your results may vary). To the extent that this helps you decide what beverage to chill, or talks you out of it altogether, I am pleased to do my part by passing along practical information that everyone can use. Mish