If you ditch the tube, use an insulating jacket for your bottle, and start with warm or even hot water, you shouldn't have too many freezing problems.

This Seattle-area forum has some interesting ideas, not all of them feasible, but some amusing. Freezing bottles have been a problem here, where temps have been below freezing, often down in the teens, for weeks.


Edited by OregonMouse (01/17/17 09:51 PM)
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