{"id":734,"date":"2019-12-26T22:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T03:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/?p=734"},"modified":"2020-04-22T20:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T00:02:41","slug":"more-ice-surface-area-means-faster-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/2019\/12\/26\/more-ice-surface-area-means-faster-cooling\/","title":{"rendered":"More ice surface-area means faster cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There exist some ice-trays that instead of having slots for 10-12 large standard-sized ice-cubes, has slots for dozens or even over a hundred tiny ice-cubes. It might seem absurd, but they&#8217;re actually a good idea. Having a lot of small ice-cubes means the ice has a lot more surface-area, so more ice touches the liquid, and thus chills it faster. This is why some drinks use crushed-ice. Of course, \u201cThere is No Free Lunch\u2122\u201d, and the cost for this faster cooling is that the ice melts faster.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_735\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of ice-tray for tiny ice-cubes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Tiny ice-cubes chill drinks faster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_736\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-with-hands-for-scale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-with-hands-for-scale-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hands holding ice-tray with tiny ice-cube slots\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-with-hands-for-scale-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-with-hands-for-scale-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-with-hands-for-scale-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/files\/2020\/04\/Tiny-ice-cube-ice-tray-with-hands-for-scale.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Ice-tray has tiny slots, that&#8217;s not a giant hand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There exist some ice-trays that instead of having slots for 10-12 large standard-sized ice-cubes, has slots for dozens or even over a hundred tiny ice-cubes. It might seem absurd, but they&#8217;re actually a good idea. Having a lot of small ice-cubes means the ice has a lot more surface-area, so more ice touches the liquid, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}