Cold Crashing Wort with a Sealed Bag of ice?

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adamjackson

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Would this work? My previous two batches, I used 3 bags of ice in my large sink and got the wort down to 70 in about 25 minutes. I'm not yet ready to buy the actual immersion chiller so I thought...what If I put a bag of ice sealed in the wort? would that melt the plastic or does it work? Anyone have experience?
 
The bag will be fine, just like a papercup won't burn while filled with water. I think a better solution is foodgrade water bottles, frozen and sanitized.
 
Nice to see another fellow Granite Stater.

I have used plastic bottles that I have sanitized and froze with no ill effects.
 
dhoyt714 said:
Nice to see another fellow Granite Stater.

I have used plastic bottles that I have sanitized and froze with no ill effects.
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Cool. Sounds like Plastic frozen bottles is the way to go. I'll start putting them aside with water in them. for sure I felt like the outside of the wort was chilling so I had to keep stirring. haveing something frozen in there would have been helpful to drop the temp faster. thanks!

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