I put a 2l bottle of fizzy water in the freezer yesterday to cool down for taking out. Of course I forgot about it and it got left in there.
I found it and took it out this evening whilst getting dinner, left it on the pantry floor by the freezer.
About an hour later, while having dinner there was an very loud bang , and what sounded a bit like broken glass tinkling about. So loud I thought maybe there had been some explosion outisde, H thought someone had shot through one of the windows.
But no, it was the bottle which had rather dramatically exploded – presumably the freezing and expansion of the bottle had caused some damage/weakened the bottle, then as it defrosted the pressure rose as the CO2 gas was released – and bang it went, spraying ice everywhere. Fizzy ice is rather odd.
oops!
Wow! What an educational mistake!
On the subject of fizz – Have you ever tried making fizzy jelly? You add half fizzy and half water when making it up – it’s very interesting.