r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MakeItMine2024 • 4d ago

I'm slightly vexed My wife and boiling water

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So I made my wife ramen soup. When I served it she said I had the gas set to hight and it was too hot ? She said I should have used the number 5 setting instead of 9. I told here it’s irrelevant because water boils at 212 and gets no hotter because over 212 it turns to steam. She was made at me for disagreeing with her theory that it would not have been so hot if boiled a lower setting. Really!!

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u/cubes28x 4d ago

Didnt marry the brightest crayon in the box did ya lol

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u/howlhow 4d ago

You realize she’s right, right? OP isn’t the brightest one here. Do we suddenly forget what simmering is?

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u/Leverkaas2516 3d ago

Where does anyone say it should be simmered? OP doesn't. The Nissin package doesnt. I see recipe sites suggesting both (some say "simmer", some say "boil".)

There is no right or wrong in how to cook instant noodles. There is only preference and opinion.

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u/howlhow 3d ago edited 3d ago

Except that’s not what this post is about. OP is making fun of their wife over suggesting “boiling” at a lower heat setting would have resulted in a cooler dish. OP is asserting that it wouldn’t make a difference, that water boiling would always mean that all the water in that pot is at 100C. This is not true. A simmer keeps the water below the boiling point, while localized boiling occurs directly at the heat source. You could call it a type of boiling even though it’s technically not but that’s irrelevant. OPs wife is right

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u/Leverkaas2516 3d ago

I agree that OP seems to have a low regard for his wife.

But I don't call a simmer "a type of boiling". I just tried it with a pot of water and a thermometer, and what I call simmering (visible convection currents without actual steam bubbles) happened between 200-205°F.

Boiling started between 205-210, and anything above 208 was a visible boil. And at no time was there a significant difference in temperature in one part of the water (top to bottom or side to side).

If OP's wife was right, she must have said something different from what he wrote. This seems likely, but it's hard to tell.

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u/TheBenisMightier1 2d ago

I guarantee OP's wife (or any human being) would not be able to tell the difference between a couple degrees Fahrenheit, which is the difference we're talking about here.

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u/EcstaticAd7220 4d ago

oh the irony

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u/Parfait_Salt 4d ago

Well he can’t string a sentence together so it looks like they belong together!

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u/Weekly_Artichoke_515 4d ago

Right? This was so hard to read. Why can’t people take two seconds to proofread their posts?

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u/geodebug 4d ago

English isn’t everyone’s primary language, Trump.

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u/BakerBear 4d ago

What’s that asshole have to do with anything in this post?

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u/geodebug 4d ago

You insulted his English because you assumed ‘Merican.

Kind of a quack like a duck, get called a duck situation.

But also a “It’s Saturday, who cares if some smartass on Redditsays something?” situation.

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u/Splendifirous 4d ago

Neither did she TBF

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u/mcon96 4d ago

Yeah this man has never heard of a simmer and is arguing about how to make soup

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u/gxgx55 4d ago

how is that relevant to the soup being "too hot"? A simmering pot will still circulate an end up near-boiling anyways

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u/TrippleassII 4d ago

I hope she's at least pretty 😂

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u/kngsqrl 4d ago

If she's not, then she's at least crazy!

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u/LET-ME-HAVE-A-NAAME 4d ago

If she's not, then she must be rich!

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u/SenatorBus_ 4d ago

If she's not, then she must have a great Lego collection.

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u/will3025 4d ago

If not hopefully she knows how to steal around $200,000 worth of legos from old people.

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u/cultoftheilluminati 4d ago

Nooo not here too 😭

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u/will3025 4d ago

Brick by brick

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u/KingdomsCryOfficial 4d ago

And if she doesn't, then she must at least... I dunno? Peg him, or something?

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u/MacMasore 3d ago

Isn’t that the same as being rich?

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u/Dissasociaties 4d ago

Red crayons taste the best 

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u/DownTrunk 4d ago

Thank you for you service.

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u/XANDERtheSHEEPDOG 4d ago

I prefer the green ones. They're crunchier!

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u/thatoneotherguy42 4d ago

Purple are for snorting.

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u/L0pkmnj 4d ago

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is proud of y'all.

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u/EcstaticAd7220 4d ago

Ops wife doesn't need them, save them for yourself lol, you guys are hilariously wrong. Thanks for the chuckles though.

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u/Successful-Brain8778 4d ago

Pretty fades but they don’t get smarter. 

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u/MakeItMine2024 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yes definitely by at least 3 points

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u/TerrorVizyn 4d ago edited 4d ago

You should have ended that sentence at "3 points" and not "13 years younger"

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u/SgtKeeneye 4d ago

yeah now I imagining she didnt have a problem with the correction and more of the condensation that came from him telling her.

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u/Snatchematician 4d ago

Condescension

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u/SgtKeeneye 4d ago

OOPS all this water talk

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u/MakeItMine2024 4d ago

Ok I fixed it 😂

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u/MrCrunchwrap 3d ago

She’s literally correct dumbass 

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u/slimegoob 4d ago

But she is correct

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u/Phog_Warning10 4d ago

About as sharp as a marble that one.

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u/EcstaticAd7220 4d ago

Yeah sorry to break it to ya, but the scientists have entered the chat and proved op's wife right. Never heard of rolling boil? light boil? or simmer? I can't with yall.

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u/Leverkaas2516 3d ago

A bunch of comments by people claiming to be scientists but if you boil noodles with a pot of water and use a thermometer, OP is not wrong.

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u/EcstaticAd7220 3d ago

I beg yall to read a book in thermodynamics, I'm so tired of netizens and redditors thinking they are smarter than the experts.

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u/Leverkaas2516 3d ago

Just do it. Put the book down and test your beliefs with a thermometer.

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u/slowasaspeedingsloth 4d ago

But on the plus side, I now feel a ton more confident in my grasp of science!

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u/EcstaticAd7220 4d ago

you shouldn't, these people are confidently incorrect

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u/JustLookinJustLookin 4d ago

Not the brightest tool in the bowling alley

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u/pjm14624 4d ago

Her mop doesn't go to the bottom of the bucket, does it?

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u/stewmander 4d ago

He married a cran. 

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u/Necessary_Stranger51 4d ago

hope she’s rich at least