2 Dec 2025

Shower Thoughts: Why does frozen ice cream get harder?

From Nights, 8:50 pm on 2 December 2025

Every Tuesday we find experts to answer our curious questions about the world and how it works.

Tonight we have a very summer-appropriate question: why does ice cream seem to get harder every time you refreeze it? 

To help answer this we're joined again by friend of the show, Professor Richard Easther, from the University of Auckland.

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