Examples
Examples
Try the starting example
- Measured tests: condition label, melt kg per hour
- Cool,0.25 Warm,0.5
- Matching condition label
- Warm
- Starting ice mass (kg)
- 10
- Protected remaining ice reserve (kg)
- 2
- Planned elapsed hours
- 18
- Hours until protected ice reserve is reached
- 16
- Ice remaining after planned hours (kg)
- 1
- Shortfall below protected reserve (kg)
- 1
- Hours until modeled complete melt
- 20
Try another scenario
- Measured tests: condition label, melt kg per hour
- Cool,0.25 Warm,0.5
- Matching condition label
- Cool
- Starting ice mass (kg)
- 10
- Protected remaining ice reserve (kg)
- 2
- Planned elapsed hours
- 18
- Hours until protected ice reserve is reached
- 32
- Ice remaining after planned hours (kg)
- 5.5
- Shortfall below protected reserve (kg)
- 0
- Hours until modeled complete melt
- 40
Calculation method
Calculation method
Hours until protected ice reserve is reached
(Initial ice−protected reserve) / supplied constant melt rate; No melt observed if rate is zero.
Ice remaining after planned hours (kg)
max(0,initial ice−rate×planned hours).
Shortfall below protected reserve (kg)
max(0,protected reserve−remaining ice).
Hours until modeled complete melt
Initial ice / supplied melt rate, or No melt observed at zero rate.
Symbols and units
- a
- Measured tests: condition label, melt kg per hour
- b
- Matching condition label
- c
- Starting ice mass (kg)
- d
- Protected remaining ice reserve (kg)
- e
- Planned elapsed hours
Use the units shown. A list keeps the order in which you enter its values. The symbol ^ means “raised to the power of”.
Assumptions & limits
Assumptions & limits
- A constant-rate ice-mass scenario using your own measurements. Remaining ice does not establish a food-safe temperature or time; this tool does not predict cooler temperature or extrapolate ambient conditions.
Are these inputs private?
These calculations run in your browser. A shared link contains the values you choose to share. Only questions submitted to the separate AI finder are sent to OpenAI.
Further reading
CDC: food safety requires temperature-based checks, not an ice-mass model ↗
Background reading; this does not imply endorsement or independent review of SumFizz.