Heat Transfer in the Kitchen, Part 2

Last post we were talking about heat transfer in the kitchen and we’ll continue exploring that topic today.

Fortuitous Properties of Cold Water

As cold water starts to get close to the freezing point, it behaves differently than most other substances in that it stops getting denser and actually gets less dense as it gets colder.  In this post, we’ll look at the variation of density with temperature, and talk about why it is lucky for all life on earth that it behaves this way.