Lager Brewing without a wort chiller

I recently bought a chest freezer to use as a lagering setup, but the recipes I've seen want the wort to be 58 degrees before adding lagering yeast. I don't have a wort chiller, and don't want to add ice or anything like that to the wort to chill it, though I saw in another thread that it is common for people to do that. It takes a good 30 to 60 minutes now to chill a 3 to 4 gallon boil in an ice bath in the sink to 80 degrees, so getting it down to 56 might take a very long time.

Would topping that off with distilled water chilled in the fridge to 40 degrees or so work well?

 

Or chill as usual, and put it in the freezer to get it the rest of the way down. If your serious enough to buy a lagering freezer, it's time to get a wort chiller.


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Exactly, even with a chiller it may be hard to get it to 58F at times.