neither from the fridge nor from the room — not one of them
Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.
Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.
Minutes from Newton’s law of cooling, from 21 °C to the middle of the band; time constant 55 min in a 4 °C fridge, 12 min in ice water. The bar is the serving range.
A dry heap of cubes touches the bottle at a few points, and between them sits air. The thermal conductivity of air is 0.026 W/(m·K), of water 0.60: a difference of nearly twenty-three times.
Pour water into the bucket up to the shoulder of the bottle and the gap disappears. The same bottle with the same ice chills about five times faster than in the fridge — every minute figure in the rows comes from that difference.
A freezer is worse here than a fridge: it is also air, merely colder, and a bottle forgotten in it costs a cork.
Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 4 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.
