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Cooper Cooler HC02C review

A rapid chiller taking drinks from 77 °F to 43 °F in minutes, with an extra setting to 33 °F and both mains and car plugs.

What it comes down to Seventy-seven to forty-three degrees in minutes, thirty-three on the extra setting, with both a household plug and a car lighter plug in the box. The only chiller here that publishes a start and an end temperature.

What the maker puts in writing

  • 77 °F to 43 °F in minutes; extra chill to 33 °F
  • Rotates the drink while spraying with ice water
  • No-spin option for delicate wines
  • Automatic touchpad with preset times
  • 120 V household plug and 12 V car plug · 15 × 6 × 9 in · 1-year warranty

Two temperatures, which nobody else on this shelf gives

Seventy-seven down to forty-three. A start, an end, and “in minutes” between them.

Five products on this shelf publish a temperature they hold. One publishes a time. This is the only one that publishes the journey, and on a rapid chiller that is the specification.

The plugs are the practical difference

Its own stablemate on this shelf publishes six minutes for a wine bottle — a better figure than this one gives — and then states that no adapter is included.

This one brings mains and car. For the use this machine is actually for, that is the box you want to open.

Availability

Read on the day this page was built: $105 at the American Amazon shop.

Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-04. The live price is at the top of the page.

What works, and what does not

Strengths

  • The only chiller on this shelf that publishes both a starting and a finishing temperature — 77 °F down to 43 °F, or 33 °F on the extra setting
  • Comes with both a mains plug and a 12-volt car plug, where its own stablemate on this shelf does not include an adapter at all
  • A no-spin option, so a sediment-bearing or sparkling bottle is chilled without being rolled

Compromises

  • The most expensive chiller here, and it needs ice and water every time — it is not a refrigerator
  • No time is given for a wine bottle specifically; the CC1 on this shelf publishes six minutes
  • Fifteen by six by nine inches of counter, for a device used in bursts

Its two closest on cost

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Specifications

TypeRapid chiller — it cools, it does not hold
Temperature77 °F to 43 °F in minutes; extra chill setting to 33 °F
MethodRotates the drink while spraying it with ice water
Delicate winesNo-spin option
ControlsAutomatic touchpad with preset times
Supplies neededIce and water, added by you
Power120 V household plug and 12 V car lighter plug, both included
Size15 × 6 × 9 in
Warranty1 year
Amazon referenceB00022KJ0M
EAN0793842148015

What readers ask us

How does spraying ice water chill faster than a freezer?

Because water carries heat away far faster than air, and rotating the bottle keeps bringing warm liquid to the wall. A freezer cools the outside of a still bottle through air. That is why this machine measures in minutes and the holding coolers on this shelf measure in hours.

What is the no-spin option for?

Sparkling wine and older reds. Rolling a champagne bottle agitates it, and rolling an old red stirs the sediment. The no-spin setting chills by spray alone, more slowly. Both Cooper Coolers on this shelf have it; nothing else here needs it, because nothing else moves the bottle.

Do I need to buy an adapter?

No — this one includes a 120-volt household plug and a 12-volt car lighter plug. Its sibling on this shelf, the CC1, states in its own listing that it does not include an adapter.

The buyer this one serves, among bar and wine appliances

A tailgate, a boat or a party where warm bottles arrive and have to be cold in minutes

What this one costs among bar and wine appliances

Details checked on October 4, 2026.

Sources

Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for bar and wine appliances and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.

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