Why store-bought popsicles are so easy to bite through, but home-made ice-cube tray popsicles are hard as rocks. (Chemistry? Physics?)
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A lot of wrong answers and half wrong answers in here. It’s the freezing method. If you bite into a cheap popsicle you will find it is also hard. It’s because of the freezing time and method.
High quality popsicles are frozen much faster resulting in a different crystal structure that is easier to eat. This is done in a subzero freezer with airflow and many times a metal mold. The ones at home are plastic which is an insulator and your freezer isn’t actually that cold. Metal molds and sub zero temp freeze it faster and from all directions.
There are ways to make a more texture acceptable treat without these and some of the other posters who were half wrong described them. Commercial popsicles are just frozen really fast in metal. The get them out with blowtorches on the molds in some place, it’s metal af.
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