If you bag the ice cream, the milk, and the frozen fish sticks together, they will stay cold(er). If you bag the ice cream with the fresh roasted chicken and the steaming hot clam chowder instead, your ice cream will be all kinds of mushy by the time you arrive home, while your clam chowder will be, well, kind of clammy. [See what I did there?] Unless of course you live in the frozen arctic tundra, like us, in which case, your ice cream will be totally fine no matter where it is packed, and your poor roasted chicken would need thick wool socks and a down overcoat in order to keep it even remotely warm.
Barring extreme environmental factors (which will of course affect temperature the most),
- If you keep cold things together, they tend to stay cold
- If you keep hot things together, they tend to stay hot.
- If you mix hot and cold foods, they will cool and warm respectively, until they reach a more moderate temperature.
This is of course, basic, somewhat intuitive, thermodynamics - heat transfer and thermal equilibrium.
Unless you have a mixture of hot and cold, the heat transfer will minimal. If you wish to stay the same temperature [mindset, bias, blind spot, opinion, motivation, degree of education], the best thing you can do is never stand near [listen to] [hang out with] others of a different temperature [etc] for too long.
Apply at will.
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