Apparently I, along with many others, have been making ice cubes the wrong way, or the slower way.  You would think that something as simple as filling up an ice cube tray wouldn't be that difficult, and it isn't, we've just been using the wrong temperature of water to fill them.  

According to Goodhousekeeping.com, using warmer water in the ice cube trays causes the cubes to form faster.  I've included a video below about how this works.

This mind-boggling phenomenon is known as the Mpemba effect by scientists and was discovered by a Tanzanian student named Erasto Mpemba in 1969.

One of these days, I will be getting a new refrigerator, one that has an automatic ice maker, but until then, I will either buy bagged ice, or keep feeling up the trays.

 

 

 

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