I’ve seen quite a few pieces of “advice” saying not to add warm water to drinking buckets as it will freeze quicker. This is based on the Mpemba effect. But it doesn’t apply to buckets of drinking water.
Dr David Marlin is a physiologist and biochemist who has worked in academia, research and professional sport. He has worked in the equestrian and veterinary world and in human sport, healthcare, medicine and exercise science. In 1989 David obtained his PhD from the UK’s leading sports university, Loughborough University following a four-year study on the responses of Thoroughbred racehorses to exercise and training, undertaken at the renowned Animal Health Trust in Newmarket. You can read David's full biography in the Our Website section.
