It’s probably the most appropriate…although I wager many who tried to help could in fact make the parts on hand perform the required magic.
I’ve got to admit I was also under the impression that the edwards was on a Rotovap, and am with you on
Resolving to an ultra low freezer.
Which @Rhyan1986 has twice told us is an ethanol bath.
So my understanding of the story is clearly incomplete.
Even though I’ve read through this more than once.
The best guess I have is someone has put an extraction tank inside a thermo freezer, and told them it’s the “ethanol bath”.
That’s still a pretty useful trick at a certain point in ones game….even though they don’t really have the required cooling power.
There is at least one model that will take a 55gal drum.
The only other reasonable hypothesis is that thermo also make an ultrasonic bath, and they’re running ethanol in there against the manufacturers advice as @vortal notes is fairly common in some sectors.
Which just makes”run!” that much more relevant