smallappsThere is one household chore universally despised: defrosting the freezer. It’s a wet, messy, time-consuming task that involves chisels, towels, and a race against time to save your melting food. It’s no surprise, then, that …
The Secret Life of Frozen Food: How a Compact Freezer Bends the Laws of Physics in Your Kitchen
It began, as many great discoveries do, in a place of extreme cold. In the 1920s, a naturalist and inventor named Clarence Birdseye was on a fur-trapping expedition in Labrador, Canada. He observed something fascinating. …