(VIDEO) Need Cold Water for a Hike? You Can Learn How to Freeze Water in Seconds!

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Looking to go for a hike or bug out on a hot day? Well, you need some refreshing water to add to your supplies. This quick trick will turn your bottle of water into ice instantly! That way you can put it in your backpack, head out on the trail, and it will still be cold by the time you need it.

What you need is purified water to be “supercooled”. Water typically freezes at 32°F (0°C), but purified water requires a temperature of -43.6°F (-42°C) for freezing to occur.

Purified water lacks the organic particles that assist with crystallization, and so it ends up being “supercooled” at regular freezing temperatures. Most freezers don't get cold enough for purified water to be anything more than cold water!

So, how do you turn this supercooled water into ice? Take a look at the video on the next page to see how it works!

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95 Comments

  1. Steve Cash said:

    So to freeze water in seconds, first you have to put it in the freezer for 3 hours. Hahahahaha

  2. Sam Sneed said:

    Pretty much the dumbest$#%&!@*I’ve ever watched. Its definitely NOT how to freeze water in 1 minute. Its how to freeze water in 3 hours and 10 minutes.

  3. Darrell Skeens said:

    3 hrs 10 mins in the freezer doesn’t instantly turn water into ice it does it in 3 hrs and 10 mins. But it is a pretty neat reaction when agitated. We’ve done this hundreds of times.

  4. Joe Vargas said:

    1 second?? 3 hours 10 mins AND 1 SECOND… pretty neat though fpr sure.

  5. Kyle Murphy said:

    How to turn water to ice in one second – put it in the freezer for 3 hours….ok…

  6. Mitch Beck said:

    Putting it in the freezer for 3 hours isn’t freezing it in 1 second. God damned click bait. Screw this page.

  7. Sean Hewlett said:

    Freeze water in 1 second! But also 3 hours and 10 minutes. Amazing

  8. Jeff Jellison said:

    Hey that just made me think of a old hillbilly trick
    If you have a camping spot or even a place in your yard a goofy but cool use for a old fridge or freezer
    Open the door of one punch holes through the back
    Lol I usually shot holes through it
    Dig a small hole where you want it lay it in it door up and use as a ice chest
    I use to have 3 around the fire pit !
    The insulate pretty well
    Also imagine with some insulation it would work as a decent cool room

  9. Jason Mitchell said:

    It is cool but that’s freeze water in 3 hrs and 1 second. Yeah I say just keep it in there over night.

  10. Alex Williams said:

    Had this happen in Alaska….left a case if water in the back of our highlander and the next morning I grabbed one out of the center and bumped it and it instantly froze…

  11. Al Lee said:

    learn to freeze water in seconds?.. the guy waited 3 hours LoL

  12. Gerald McGarvey said:

    Actually this was pretty useless not to mention lame.. Was hoping it would be something cool.

  13. Jesse Burkardt said:

    I used to work outside in the northern ohio winter. It was January and the regular temp outside was about -30 degrees. This was at night. I had a regular bottle of Aquafina water sitting on a window ledge. It sat for about 3 hours. When I picked it up it was still liquid. But as soon as I opened the lid it did the exact thing as on the video.

  14. Marilyn Betzler said:

    Ya makes perfect sense. Leave it in the freezer for THREE HOURS and TEN MINUTES…….and you get to call that one second freezing. Must be that new math everyone is talking about !

  15. Jon Murray said:

    I’ve seen a similar thing done with beer as a party trick. Bit pointless really, might as well let it freeze properly if you already have to leave it in the freezer that long.

  16. Rob Ab said:

    wow .. ice in 3 hrs + 10 mins! .. lol .. the freezer works then eh?

  17. Tom Craig said:

    Stupid….stupid…….stupid. Freeze water in 1 second with a 3 hr and 20 minute cool down prep period. AMAZING ……….not!

  18. Tim Slagle said:

    ERMAGHERD putting wurtur burtuls in der fruzzzur …… LIKE NO ONE EVER THOUGHT OF THOSE THINGS UNTIL THE INTERNET TOLD THEM TO

  19. Dina Summer said:

    A bottle of water freezing in 2 to 3 hrs is news?! And then say it freezes in one second? And people believe the stuff posted on here…

  20. Scott Campbell said:

    More like how to freeze water in 3 hours 10 minutes and 1 second. What a total bullshit waste of time and pretty much a lie… Time to unlike and unfollow

  21. Chad Duca said:

    Clean under ur finger nails…… That is fucking gross!!

  22. Austin Lowe said:

    Freeze it instantly AFTER putting it in the freezer for 3 hours.

  23. Romer J Muñiz Casillas said:

    I thought at some point I was going to see a tool to change from liquid state…

    I feel dumb – to have finished watching…

  24. Romer J Muñiz Casillas said:

    I thought at some point I was going to see an element that would change the substance from its liquid state…

    I feel dumb – to have finished watching…

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