Which takes longer, to cool down or to warm up?

[Moh]

If there was some water, one boiling and one freezing (say equal distance from room temperature) - which one would hit room temperature first?

Google was useless

[Recursion]

I'm guessing it would depend on the container the water was in, the surface area of the water, but I would think boiling water would cool faster than the freezing would warm due to to convection

[Apple]

You have made it confusing. Freezing water is 0 degrees, boiling water is 100 degrees. If room temp is 21 degrees that means the frozen water (ice) only has to heat up by 21 degrees but the boiling water has to cool down by 69 degrees. I also googled it but couldn't find much.

[Recursion]

You have made it confusing. Freezing water is 0 degrees, boiling water is 100 degrees. If room temp is 21 degrees that means the frozen water (ice) only has to heat up by 21 degrees but the boiling water has to cool down by 69 degrees. I also googled it but couldn't find much.

"one boiling and one freezing (say equal distance from room temperature)"

Water can still be frozen at say -70c though, so it does make sense.

[Conservative,]

I'd say boiling - the water looses heat faster than it gains it. Can't really explain it but it makes sense to me haha.

[Moh]

Would heat flow be the same, hot or cold?

[Stephen]

doesn't hot water freeze faster than cold water

[kuzkasate]

I think it takes longer to warm up tbh
I remember doing something about it

[Apple]

I doubt you are ever going to find a valid answer but I would of thought that it takes longer to warm up.

[Ardemax]

deffo depends on the temperature of each liquid and i think it's the colder one that loses it's like coldness first? dont trust me 100% on it