{"id":7469,"date":"2013-05-29T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7469"},"modified":"2013-05-29T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:05:13","slug":"big-ice-cubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/big-ice-cubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ice Cubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2013\/05\/big-ice-cubes\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a> would weigh in on this:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2013\/05\/big-ice-cubes\/\"><p>In some cases, they go beyond just saying that big cubes melt slower and also claim that they do so while cooling your drink just as much. These claims should be looked upon with a gimlet eye, because the cubes&rsquo; melting is what does the cooling.<\/p>\n<p>No question, <em>some<\/em> of the cooling comes from raising the temperature of the ice from below freezing up to the melting point. But that&rsquo;s small beer. The specific heat of ice (0.50 cal\/g-K) is only about half that of water (and about equal to that of ethanol), so raising the temperature of ice does little to lower the temperature of your drink. The significant cooling comes from ice&rsquo;s heat of fusion, which is a whopping 80 cal\/g. This is what pulls heat out of your drink and lowers its temperature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That said, I like the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesweethome.com\/about-the-sweethome\/\">idea<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/thesweethome.com\">The Sweethome<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping Dr. Drang would weigh in on this: In some cases, they go beyond just saying that big cubes melt slower and also claim that they do so while cooling your drink just as much. These claims should be looked upon with a gimlet eye, because the cubes&rsquo; melting is what does the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,460],"class_list":["post-7469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-science"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7470,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions\/7470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}