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SLC Scott
@slc-scott.bsky.social

It's weird to me that this wouldn't be obvious to people right away. It takes a few minutes for a toaster to toast bread. It takes a freezer hours to make ice from water. Clearly toasters heat much faster than freezers cool.

Christian Dawson
@zeroand09.com

Making my bet before watching it: It has to be the toaster because of the semi-enclosed design coupled with the insane output from the heating elements. The toast will rapidly cool once popped, but it will still be toast.

Kz
@kzdotwave.bsky.social

In general it seems to me that heating stuff is way simpler and quicker than freezing stuff. There must be some scientific explanation because I can not claim to know it. So yea my bets are on the toaster too

M-Rob
@mirobin.bsky.social

That's the second law of thermodynamics. Heat flows freely from hotter places to colder places, but getting in to flow out of somewhere so it gets colder than its surroundings requires some trickery

> cat lux
@luxkitty.bsky.social

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. The toaster changes energy from the electrical grid into heat, the fridge can only move it from inside the freezer to outside the freezer. Making heat is much easier, but it ultimately depends on how fast each of them can work.

> cat lux
@luxkitty.bsky.social

Fridges use half the amount of power as a toaster, but fridges run at 150-250% efficiency (1 amp in is 2 amps of cooling) it can even be as high as 400% in some conditions. This means given the same amount of power, a freezer would win. But it depends on how much each appliance can actually use.

Noah
@noahroo.bsky.social

One could also argue that a toaster is any device that toasts. So while impractical, what if we were toasting our bread with nuclear power rods? We'll destroy the world with this question somehow ..

muxauy
@lanzz.org

now if only freezers turn out to beat wolves, we've got ourselves an alternative to rock-paper-scissors

Bill Stewart
@billstewart.bsky.social

If you put the toaster in the freezer, the freezer door keeps you from leaving the toaster plugged in, so the freezer will probably win even if the toaster is hot. Alternatively, the toaster may melt ice cubes in the freezer, either shorting out the toaster or making the toast too soggy to pop up.

Jeremy Duffy
@thegeekprofessor.bsky.social

Love it. No surprises for me given that a toaster isn't an oven. It doesn't NEED to fight the freezer since it's heating in a very small space compared to the opening where cold air would mix in.