Why does ice cream melt?
Ice Cream's Great Escape
Why does ice cream melt?
You pull a frozen scoop of ice cream from the freezer — hard as a rock, perfect and smooth. Five minutes later, it's a puddle in your bowl. What happened?
Ice cream is made of tiny water crystals locked together in a frozen web, with fat and sugar filling the gaps. As long as it stays cold, everything holds tight. But the moment you take it out of the freezer, the air around it is much warmer — and heat always flows from warm things to cold things, like water rolling downhill.
