Then, he filled his own stainless steel pot and the 5-gallon barrel with crushed ice, starting the first round of ice melting.
"I need to first melt the initial batch of boiling water in the pot, pour it into the pit, and let the crushed ice in the pit turn into the first batch of fresh water."
"We need to start a hot water source; directly throwing hot stones into solid ice blocks has too small a contact area, resulting in very low heat transfer efficiency."
"Most of the heat would be wasted as steam; it's much quicker to throw hot stones into water."
Soon, the crushed ice in the pot melted into clear fresh water and gradually began to emit steam.
When the water was fully boiled, making a "gurgling" sound, he immediately lifted the scalding pot and evenly poured it over the ice blocks at the bottom of the pit.
"Sizzle——!"
