Under the Galata bridge you find a handful of colourful boats that sell amazing fish sandwiches â balik ekmek. Basically, fresh mackerel is grilled on these boats, then stuffed with a bit of onion and salad into a roll and drizzled with lemon juice. Such a simple pleasure, yet amazing.
Ice cream is a colloid combining an emulsion and a foam, with milk fat, ice crystals and air (a liquid, a solid and a gas) spread throughout another liquid (the water from the milk). In traditional homemade ice cream, the lecithin in egg yolks acts as the emulsifier, keeping the colloid stable.
The shape of the ice cream will change the melting time depending how it changes the ratio of the area of the surface to the volume of the ice cream. The more ice cream that is in immediate contact with air, the faster it will melt. A lower surface area to volume ratio speeds melting because the air can share its heat energy with more of the ice cream at one time. Imagine how much easier it is to for an ice cream flake to melt than a ball of ice cream. For the ice cream to completely melt, the air has to share its heat energy with the ice cream on the surface and the ice cream on the surface has to share its heat energy with the ice cream in the interior of the flake or ball.