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I wondered why I could actually see where I was looking...As for frozen drinks:
If it's glass, yeah, they will go foom quite readily. Be very careful, and consider telling other peeps in your household to check on it. Ditto aluminum soft drink cans, but you MAY have a little more time before you end up spontaneously redecorating your freezer and everything in it. NOTE - Please do not try this at home. Even empty glass containers and drinking glasses will shatter (sometimes forcefully) in the freezer due to the air bubbles inevitably trapped within the glass itself.
For plastic bottles where the contents are under pressure: Simple. Open the top all the way to let some air in/nitrogen out and ease the pressure, then reseal. I've never had any go kerplowie after doing that, even after forgetting the bottle long enough for the liquid to become a solid chunk of colored ice. Note that yes, this will cause carbonated drinks to go flat if you leave them too long. If you allow something like a Coke to freeze over anyway, you might as well toss it, as the flavorings will thaw out at a separate rate from the water and you'll end up with either nigh-flavorless sludge or some REALLY concentrated soft drink syrup, depending on your timing. Even if you let it all thaw, it still won't taste quite right once you re-mix it (probably by shaking it
, which causes its own problems).I don't recommend it with milk, either. Skim, in particular (due to the fact that it's mostly water (and sugar?, iirc)), will visibly separate out into an inch or two of white "platelets" and a 7/8 gallon of nasty-looking grey water
. Not much point in trying to re-integrate them, either.
You don't need to let any air in, and if you're careful you don't even need to finish letting all the pressurised CO2 out; just unscrew it enough to relieve the buildup then retighten.
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