Why does hot water freeze quicker than cold water?
because when you put something cold in a hot environment it causes condensation or vise versa, a hot ice tray in a feezer for example is going to build up condensation, on the outside of the tray which will then evaperate speeding up the cooling process. I used to work as a plumber, hot water pipes will freeze faster then cold water pipes in the winter for the same reason. When it is really cold you will notice water condinsation on the out side of your hot water pipe but not on the cold water pipe, that then starts the pipe freesing faster do to evaporation, like if you your finger and then blow on it you finger gets cool because as the water evaporates it takes heat with it. I good way to demontrate this is to get two glasses fill both with water of the same temperature then rap a wet papertowel around one of the glasses then put both glasses in the freezer, the glass rapped in the wet paper towel should freeze faster because as the water evaporates from the wet paper towel it will t