>You don't have to get it exactly right, your freezer is probably not at -6F.

This is the one nice thing about living in a place where the winters can get nice and chilly: in addition to never running out of freezer space (I finally had to throw away some frozen orange juice when I forgot it outside and it thawed out in the spring), you can cool things down extremely quickly. Toss a can of room-temperature soda into a -20F snowbank (this is key, as the snow conducts heat away from the can faster than air if you just set it on the porch) and you have a perfectly chilled drink in just a few minutes.

Of course, the *downsides* to living in a place with chilly winters are myriad--frozen skin when you sit down in your car after work, having to spend 10 minutes getting bundled up to run outside and get the mail, shoveling snow--enough to make me consider every January moving back to California...