Corpse Cakes and Funeral Pie: A Short History of Eating Grief
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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The Effect of Ice on the Temperature of Food
Ice cools by melting essentially. So it takes energy from the hot food, like whether it's a piece of asparagus or an egg and it uses it to melt. As long as you have a real ice bath, which is there's ice basically throughout the mixture, it's all going to be at zero degrees really, really fast. The only thing that is actually causing any cooling is the ice melting. By the time the ice has stopped melting, the water will be 32 degree Fahrenheit.
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