Savor Classics: Ice

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🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Frozen water not only chills our tea and cocktails -- for centuries, it was one of the only ways to keep fresh food from spoiling. In this classic episode: Anney and Lauren dig into the sometimes rocky history and extremely cool science of ice.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:13.4	Hello and welcome to Savor production of IHeart Radio.
0:15.7	I'm Annie Reese.
0:16.3	And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum.
0:17.7	And today we have a classic episode for you about ice, like frozen water.
0:24.8	Yes. Was there any particular reason this was on your mind, Lauren? You know, I was going through
0:30.4	our backlog, and I was like, that one was a really interesting episode. And then I listened to it,
0:36.6	and I was like, oh, it was. Yeah. And so here we are.
0:40.6	That one was a really interesting one. It's one of the things that I think a lot of people
0:45.6	me included take for granted ice. Oh, absolutely. And just like exactly where refrigeration
0:53.1	technology has taken us and how important it is to not only, you know, like, like our health and well-being, but just just a lot of things about our daily life depend upon it. And it's pretty cool.
1:09.6	It is.
1:10.9	Our food ways were irrevocably changed.
1:15.7	And we can have more medicine and stuff like that, and that's terrific.
1:20.1	Yeah.
1:20.9	It's usually a pretty consistent timeline element in the history of like and then refrigeration.
1:28.2	Mm-hmm.
1:28.9	Yep.
1:29.7	Yeah.
1:30.0	It really did change things.
1:33.0	But we were quite young when we recorded this week.
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