I noticed that ice cream melts faster in a glass or ceramic bowl than when I put it in a plastic bowl.
So I got curious and did a little testing. It seems that ice cream melts faster to slower in this order:
Stainless – Glass/Ceramic – paper – plastic.
I’m no scientist and this “test” was not strictly controlled so I might be wrong.
But is there a scientific reason why frozen dairy milk melts faster when it’s contacted to certain materials?
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Some materials conduct heat better than others. You pretty much figured out which ones are good conductors (will quickly heat up the ice cream) and which ones are bad conductors (will slowly heat up the ice cream)
This is also the reason why steel feels cold to the touch and plastic feels warm – the steel is quickly conducting heat out of your hand and the plastic in doing it much more slowly
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