(Part 2) Best ice buckets & tongs according to redditors

Ridiculously awesome but totally unnecessary luxury item: standing champagne bucket.

No worries, I don't use a Crystal Decanter. When I first started looking for a decanter, I discovered all of the lead concerns. Thankfully I found a lead-free, non crystal, glass decanter. It looks great, and it was really cheap. I can vouch for its quality, and thankfully it has gotten even cheaper in the last few years (was $40 when i bought it)

Bormioli Rocco Selecta Decanter

Bormioli Ice Container

Would you recommend getting something like this or just a regular plastic bucket?

Do you have access to a fridge or not? If not, bring a cooler. Coleman's makes a 6-pack cooler with an ice pack screwed inside the lid. Cool air travels downward, it's genius, and just the right size for one lunch. Sort of like this.
Also, a 16oz water bottle, frozen, makes a great ice pack.

Stores have shelf-ready meals, but they are usually sky-high in sodium.

There is equipment that can cool things very quickly.


This instant champagne chiller will chill a bottle of champagne in 5 minutes. There's also this that can cool room temperature beer to 4-degrees in 40 seconds.


All that said - I think it's more difficult to cool things quickly than it is to heat them quickly (as for why...i've no idea)