How to ruin a bottle of Coke
OK, so I had this bottle of Coke which was warm, so I put it in the freezer to chill it. Of course, I forgot about it and it froze. The next day I remembered it was there and took it out to defrost. Except I didn't want to wait for it all to defrost, I wanted Coke! So I waited until about a glassful has melted. That's when the real problems started.
In case you didn't do chemistry: when soft drinks freeze, the carbon dioxide comes out of solution, which causes the bottle to pressurise more. Also the expansion of the water in the drink creates more pressure. So, if a little bit of the Coke melts, it absorbs lots of carbon dioxide because of all the pressure and as a result becomes much more carbonated than usual. Another thing is that as it all melts, the syrup stuff melts faster than the water, so you get concentrated Coke. Over-concentrated, over-carbonated Coke.
So I pured myself a glass of this super-Coke and it formed a thick layer of froth that made it resemble Guinness. The flavour was... strange. Try it some time. The downside is that the rest of the bottle is now watery and flat.
Another interesting use for Coke.
In case you didn't do chemistry: when soft drinks freeze, the carbon dioxide comes out of solution, which causes the bottle to pressurise more. Also the expansion of the water in the drink creates more pressure. So, if a little bit of the Coke melts, it absorbs lots of carbon dioxide because of all the pressure and as a result becomes much more carbonated than usual. Another thing is that as it all melts, the syrup stuff melts faster than the water, so you get concentrated Coke. Over-concentrated, over-carbonated Coke.
So I pured myself a glass of this super-Coke and it formed a thick layer of froth that made it resemble Guinness. The flavour was... strange. Try it some time. The downside is that the rest of the bottle is now watery and flat.
Another interesting use for Coke.
posted by Middlerun at 12:53 PM
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