Product Description

Chilling drinks quickly and keeping them cold is no longer a problem using the Rapid Ice! The amazing Rapid Ice Coolers can best be described as super cold flexible ice jackets. They can, when taken from the freezer, simply be slipped over the bottle. The drink will be chilled within 5 minutes and stays cool for hours. The coolers are unbreakable and reusable.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23283 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Vacu Vin
• Model: 54921
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 5.50" w x 9.80" l, 1.00 pounds

Features

• When frozen, sleeves chill glasses of beer and keep them chilled for hours
• Sleeves' 6 pockets contain special liquid that freezes solid
• Sleeves slip over standard-size glasses; each sleeve 5-1/4 inches high
• Flexible and virtually unbreakable
• Printed to resemble foamy glasses of beer

Amazon.com Review
Capable of chilling glasses of beer (or other beverages) in five minutes and keeping them chilled for hours, the two sleeves in this set are perfect for picnics, outdoor barbecues when the weather is sizzling, at the beach, and in the TV room. Each sleeve has six pockets containing a special liquid that freezes solid when placed in a freezer for several hours. The sleeves then slip over standard-size glasses. Flexible, virtually unbreakable, and reusable more or less forever, the 5-1/4-inch-high sleeves are printed to resemble foamy glasses of beer. Storing them in the freezer permits their use at any time. --Fred Brack

Customer Reviews

Works GREAT and fits a wide range of container sizes.
This is NOT intended to be used to cool a drink down from room temperature, but to take one that is already at refrigerator cool and cool it down more to near-ice-cold temperatures quickly and keep there for an hour or so. For that purpose it is excellent.

This works fine for a wide range of container sizes. Because the inner cooler-slush pouches are in sections, different diameter containers slide in and the pouches squeeze around the container sides to fit tightly. I've used it with the standard 12 oz can as well as 12 oz, 16 oz, 1/2 liter, and even up to 20 oz bottles. And from tall skinny longneck beers to short squat soda bottles, It will probably be too loose on containers narrower than a longneck, and a 20 oz soda bottle is about the largest it can take.

The cooler takes about an hour or two to go from room temperature to fully charged, and when put around an already refrigerated drink, it will cool it even more to "ice-cold" temperature and then keep it cold for an hour or so.

Again, it doesn't have the cooling capacity to cool a room temperature drink down to refrigerated temperatures, so it's not a replacement for already keeping your drinks in the refrigerator, but if you're like me and prefer your drinks cooler than refrigerator temperatures, this is excellent, especially if you don't like your drinks watered down by melting ice!

Packaging and hype ....
Have some othe vacu vin products and decided to buy these beer coolers ....

The packaging and the hype were soooooooo cool that I thought that I would be able to down my favorite bubbly a ferw degrees cooler than the fridge. If there is actually any temp decrease using these things I sure didn't notice it ....

Better to leave these plastic chillers in the freezer and put the beer in for 5 minutes instead ..... then I notice a difference in the temp of the beer .....

Save you money .....

Define "Chill"
I wanted to test how well these things worked so I used 3 bottles of Coca-Cola. Each held 16.9 oz. or 500mL (the plastic bottles sold in grocery stores). They were started at room temperature - 71.8 degress F. I put the first in the Vacu Vin sleeve which had been in the freezer at 0 degrees Farenheit for 10 hours. The second I buried in cube ice. The third I put in a 35 degree F refrigerator. I started a timer for 10 minutes which is twice as long as the box said it should take for the Vacu Vin things to "chill" something. After ten minutes the Vacu Vin soda "chilled" to 60.0 degrees. The ice chilled to 61.8. The refrigerator chilled to 68.5.

I guess 12 degrees in 10 minutes is a "chill", but it hardly gets the beverage down to the 34-40 degrees which I look for in my frosty beverages. Also, I can buy ice for $.99 per bag and chill more than one soda while knowing the ice will frost the drink in about a half hour. The Vacu Vin didn't chill my soda any cooler than 60.0, even after fifteen minutes.

Having said that, I suspect that these would work well as insulators for already cold beverages since they are frozen as opposed to a room temperature foam rubber sleeve. However, they don't "chill" anything, unless 60 degrees falls within your definition of "cold".