Throwing hot items into snow should cool them

[cromdor]

So winter hit me; all fine I think, until I forge a new prospecting pick and notice all the water is frozen. No biggy, right? I'll just throw it into the snow, that should do the trick. The newly forged piece of copper sinks into the snow where once a lake was; but once I retrieve it, it's still as hot as the moment I got it off the forge. What's up with that?
I don't think this would be hard to implement, just add the same cooling-property of water to snow layers as well!

[Murklak]

This wouldn't work in reality. The metal would fall through the snow, melting it, and turning the snow to steam. Then it would sit at the bottom, hot.

[Facethief]

This suggestion, but with lake ice.

[Krougal]

20 minutes ago, Facethief said:

This suggestion, but with lake ice.

and ice fishing!

[Facethief]

I’m waiting on the edge of my seat for pysically-based fishing, especially the ability to actually yank a fish out of the water

[Entaris]

I'd like a fishing net, but being able to toss hot bars onto lake ice would be nice.

[ThatMaxGuy]

This post has led me to a rabbit hole on unusual quenching liquids, aided by my certified-blacksmith partner.

The answer seems to be "stick to water and oil, snow would do a bad job at it." 

Although some kind of interaction between hot metal and snow/ice would make sense. 

[Entaris]

Ooo, yeah we should get oil.

 

I'd love to see Tyron's hands get ahold of the refinery process.