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Pro tip, try to pre chill the water so its just starting to freeze before you dump it
Hot water freezes into slicker black ice.
If there's one thing ICE despises, it's black ice in the street.
Related Key and Peele skit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM
Water breaks every law of physics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
I’m glad I have ADHD and will forget about this by tomorrow, or else I’d spend my weekend trying to figure out what temperature and droplet size makes the slipperiest ice. You can probably use far less water with a mist sprayer, assuming the mist doesn’t freeze before it hits the ground. (Saving water means better coverage by the time you run out, being my thinking.)
Pit ice cubes in the containers, got it.