"If dinner's ready and you've realized you left the white wine or rosé in the pantry, don't sweat it - more importantly, don't listen to that friend who tells you to add ice cubes to your glass (unless you like your wine diluted). For moments like these, there's a simple hack to chill a bottle of wine fast, and it involves a perhaps unexpected ingredient: salt."
"Chilling wine in a bucket of ice water can usually take up to 15 to 20 minutes, but salt helps speed up the process. "I am not a scientist, but it reminds me of making ice cream in summer camp when you were a kid -- the addition of the salt to the ice really speeds up the chilling process!" Horn told Tasting Table, referencing those tasty childhood experiments of shaking liquid ice cream mix in a bag of salt and ice until it solidifies."
Adding salt to an ice-and-water bucket accelerates wine chilling by lowering the water's freezing point. A salted ice bath can cool a bottle in roughly five minutes, versus 15–20 minutes for plain ice water. Continuous spinning or agitation of the bottle in the mixture speeds cooling further. Use an insulated container, metal bucket, or cooler and add one to two cups of salt depending on bucket size. Avoid crowding the container with too many bottles or ice and use a lid if available to keep the cooling process efficient. Avoid adding ice cubes directly to a glass to prevent dilution.
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