Eli5: Why does it take hours for frozen ground beef to thaw on the counter but just minutes if left in a bowl of cool water?
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Water facilitates the transferral of energy much faster than air.
Heat is simply a measure of how jiggly the particles in a material are….
The jigglier, the warmer.
Water facilitates convection currents and the transfer of jiggly energy into the meat.
The opposite happens to your body in an ice-bath… your body cools down because jiggly heat energy from your body gets transferred to the ice-water.
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