Specific heat Memes

The culinary world meets thermodynamics in this delightful clash! While Gordon Ramsay loses his mind over someone heating ice to cook noodles (a culinary sin of the highest order), our physics-savvy hero stands calmly, armed with scientific knowledge. The scientific flex here is actually legitimate - ice has a lower specific heat capacity than water (about half, in fact). This means it takes less energy to raise the temperature of ice by 1°C than it does for the same mass of water. So technically, heating ice to melt it and then boiling that water might be marginally more energy-efficient... if we ignore the whole phase change energy requirement. Which, spoiler alert, completely ruins this thermodynamic "shortcut." The latent heat of fusion would like a word with you. Next up: explaining to Gordon why you're refrigerating your boiling water to cool it down faster. Good luck with that one.