Cooling your Food & Drinks in an empty refrigerator
You may notice that it takes a while for your food and beverages to "get cold" when you first put them in the empty refrigerator. Why doesn't this phenomenon happen at home? Your home refrigerator likely already has a good bit of cold items in it and those cold things help cool down the new room-temperature items you add to it! But, when you start with an empty fridge and add non-cooled items to it, it will take hours to cool them down to the desired temperature.
It typically takes warm drinks more than 12 hours to reach the set temperature of the refrigerator. And the more items added and the tighter they are packed together in the refrigerator, the longer it will take to cool them down.
So what can you do to speed up the cooling process?
1. Add colder things to the fridge! Buy your beer or sodas already cold. Or put the cans in a cooler with ice first and add them to the refrigerator after they cool down. The more already-cold items you have in there, the faster the newly added items will cool down.
2. If you brought a cooler with ice packs, don't put them in the freezer yet. If they are still cold, add them to the fridge too! Another idea is to put a bowl of ice in the fridge.
3. Keep the refrigerator door closed! The more times you open it to check, the more warm air you allow into the fridge and the longer it will take to cool your items!
4. If you just can't wait for that cold drink, here are some cool hacks:
https://www.delish.com/entertaining/a50679/chill-beer-fast-tip/
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