why is it easier to heat things up, than it is to cool them down?
In: 143
Just looking at a standard kitchen here. An oven gets up to 500F, a freezer gets down to 0F. Room temperature is 70F. One of the biggest things that affects how quickly something changes temperature is the difference between it’s temperature and the temperature of what’s heating/cooling it.
So say you have a cup of water at room temperature and you put it in the oven at 400F. That’s a difference of 400-70=330F. Take the same cup of water and put it in the freezer and the difference is 70-0=70F.
Because of the much lower difference in temperature, the water is going to cool in the freezer much more slowly than it heats in the oven.
Latest Answers