A practical guide to freezing your boss’ hat in a block of ice [Photos]

This is an important skill for working adults to acquire, and we’re here to walk you through the process step by step .

Japan is in the middle of a very hot summer, and it’s got us scrambling to find new ways to keep cool.

Earlier in the month we tried slapping 68 cooling patches on the upper body of our crack reporter Mr.

Sato , and while that did provide him with some measure of relief from the heat, we realize that such crazy methods may not be for everyone.

So today we’re going to be testing an alternate crazy method for staying cool this summer: freezing a hat .

Now that we’d decided on our plan, though, we had to answer the question of whose hat to freeze? After giving it some thought, we settled on swiping the hat of SoraNews24 owner and founder Yoshio off of his desk.

The decision to give Yoshio this reprieve from the heat was made as a display of employee loyalty and appreciation for our boss’ hard work, and not at all because we weren’t sure if freezing a hat would ruin it and didn’t want to risk our own clothing in this experiment.

So how do you freeze a hat? First, you’re going to need a large bucket or similar container, like the cooking pot we grabbed from the office kitchenette.

Place your boss’ hat inside, upside-down, and stuff a plastic bag inside the hat .

Then fill the container with water … …and stick it in the freezer . ▼ Eating any unclaimed mango ice cream that happens to be in the freezer is optional.

Exactly how long it’s going to take for the water to freeze will depend on your specific freezer setup, but we let our boss’ hat chill over the weekend, and when we checked on it three days later, that turned out to have been plenty of time.

After setting the pot out to thaw for a bit, we were able to pop the hat out, and it had frozen into a solid block shaped sort of like a curling stone .

Between the solid black color of the fabric and the texturing of the ice, it looked oddly beautiful, like a slab of high-quality polished granite .

However, we had a lot of work left to do before this ice hat would be wearable.