diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 130043e05..6df4ab297 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ mockito = "^1"
 murmur3 = "0.5.2"
 once_cell = "1"
 opendal = "0.46"
-ordered-float = "4.0.0"
+ordered-float = { version =  "4.0.0", features = ["serde"]}
 parquet = "51"
 pilota = "0.11.0"
 pretty_assertions = "1.4.0"
diff --git a/crates/iceberg/src/spec/values.rs b/crates/iceberg/src/spec/values.rs
index d214c2b8d..79695f379 100644
--- a/crates/iceberg/src/spec/values.rs
+++ b/crates/iceberg/src/spec/values.rs
@@ -60,16 +60,8 @@ pub enum PrimitiveLiteral {
     /// Stored as 8-byte little-endian
     Long(i64),
     /// Stored as 4-byte little-endian
-    #[serde(
-        serialize_with = "serialize_ordered_float",
-        deserialize_with = "deserialize_ordered_float"
-    )]
     Float(OrderedFloat<f32>),
     /// Stored as 8-byte little-endian
-    #[serde(
-        serialize_with = "serialize_ordered_double",
-        deserialize_with = "deserialize_ordered_double"
-    )]
     Double(OrderedFloat<f64>),
     /// Stores days from the 1970-01-01 in an 4-byte little-endian int
     Date(i32),
@@ -91,46 +83,6 @@ pub enum PrimitiveLiteral {
     Decimal(i128),
 }
 
-fn serialize_ordered_float<S>(
-    float: &OrderedFloat<f32>,
-    serializer: S,
-) -> std::result::Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
-where
-    S: serde::Serializer,
-{
-    serializer.serialize_f32(float.into_inner())
-}
-
-fn deserialize_ordered_float<'de, D>(
-    deserializer: D,
-) -> std::result::Result<OrderedFloat<f32>, D::Error>
-where
-    D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
-{
-    let float = f32::deserialize(deserializer)?;
-    Ok(OrderedFloat(float))
-}
-
-fn serialize_ordered_double<S>(
-    float: &OrderedFloat<f64>,
-    serializer: S,
-) -> std::result::Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
-where
-    S: serde::Serializer,
-{
-    serializer.serialize_f64(float.into_inner())
-}
-
-fn deserialize_ordered_double<'de, D>(
-    deserializer: D,
-) -> std::result::Result<OrderedFloat<f64>, D::Error>
-where
-    D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
-{
-    let float = f64::deserialize(deserializer)?;
-    Ok(OrderedFloat(float))
-}
-
 impl PrimitiveLiteral {
     /// Returns true if the Literal represents a primitive type
     /// that can be a NaN, and that it's value is NaN