I want the opposite of an immersion boiler. I want a coil with a handle that plugs into a box that plugs into the wall, and makes whatever I stick it in freeze into slush within two minutes
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Imagine how powerful we would all be with instant access to slush at all times
it's bullshit that we can create heat so easily from many other forms of energy, but to create cold, the best way we know of requires a refrigerant and a pump and just moves the thermal energy elsewhere instead of making it into something else.
like, i know it's really efficient at how much heat it moves per input energy. however! i'm sad that the average person isn't able to just create a little cold as a treat from time to time without having to do all this refrigeration cycle stuff.
I figure that kitchen appliance ice cream makers are getting small enough that the compressor is probably small enough to fit inside a steamdeck footprint if you also count the underspace between the controllers. so unlike the last time 5 years ago I wanted this, I figure it's close to "YouTuber who got laid off but has a lot of savings" levels of possibility of being brought into the world
It'd take a horrible amount of power, and the heat-dispersal system would probably look like a high fantasy evil whatsit, but it seems possible with something like a Peltier junction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling
I'm figuring even a sizeable peltier adds enough bulk that you'd want to offload it to an intermediate appliance, so the compressors in the 300$ countertop icecream makers may be small enough at this point if they are just on their own, sans ice cream maker. I'm imagining a sort of soldering station type deal
Right, and I definitely don't mean "drop a solid state plate in a glass." I imagine some sort of contraption to keep the actual innards running safely, then basically a "probe" that gets immersed and conducts the heat back to the station. But yeah, by the time you have that set up, it's much cheaper to replace that mess with a minifridge's freezer or something.
peltier on the bottom of a single walled steel cup with insulation around the sides and a lid actually might work though
caution: be sure the Freezy Coil is immersed before applying power, lest you get slushy air