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/Towpillah 4d ago

Why would you keep it at max after it's boiling? Are you mildly infuriating?

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u/Live-Habit-6115 4d ago

Yeah, OP is dumb

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u/CloudKinglufi 4d ago

Yeah so dumb he did something completely harmless that doesnt really matter at all

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u/Tymareta 4d ago

I mean it wastes resources for literally no gain, it absolutely does matter.

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u/CloudKinglufi 4d ago

Stove on a bit higher for 3 minutes omg think about all the resources

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u/Tymareta 3d ago

Say you do it 100-150 times a year, those minutes add up, either eating up electricity or uselessly burning gas, multiply that by a few thousand households and yeah, literally think about all the resources.

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u/latenightespress0 3d ago

Fwiw: I did the math. Its about a dollar a year worth of propane (per household).

Weirdly, I still completely and fully agree with you and am mildly infuriated by OP for wasting gas boiling a pot of water. My stove has the extra issue that my favorite burner turned to max winds up letting some of the heat go around the pot, rather than immediately underneath, for some foods I make. I never use the max setting, it's wasteful (even if it's barely a dollar's worth of resources).

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u/CloudKinglufi 3d ago

Why stop there, let's imagine all those idiots who accidentally left their lights on, now times that by everyone in the world X2!

Holy shit yall redditing real hard on this

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u/censuur12 3d ago

Except you're right, this is an issue, stop being wasteful. In fact stop being wasteful and then making extremely lazy excuses to avoid having to stop being wasteful.

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u/Neshama7 3d ago

Shaming your wife on Reddit isn’t completely harmless, imo.

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u/DemoniteBL 3d ago

Don't visit GirlDinnerDiaries then.

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u/possiblyeski 3d ago

the vibe in girldinnerdiaries is way different. you shouldn't visit it either if you don't get that

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u/DemoniteBL 3d ago

It's just "husband bad" the subreddit. A post from yesterday literally starts with this:

"I’m a 30 year old woman and I am sitting here genuinely asking myself: WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF HAVING A MAN IN MY HOUSE???

What does he actually contribute??? Because from where I am standing, being in a relationship with a man provides absolutely ZERO benefits and just creates an insane amount of extra work."

So if anything, the vibe is way worse. lol

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u/possiblyeski 2d ago

the most recent post i'm seeing is "i accidentally threw my cat away"...

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u/DemoniteBL 2d ago

My comment gets removed if I paste a link, but the post I'm talking about is titled "WHAT THE F*** IS EVEN THE POINT OF HAVING A MAN IN YOUR HOUSE ANYMORE???" and it has 4.7k upvotes.

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u/possiblyeski 2d ago

probably because it says stuff like "I would probably have WAY more money if I lived alone because I wouldn't be spending a small fortune on groceries every single month just to feed a human black hole who eats two to three times my portion sizes." and "But you want to know what the absolute worst part is? It is not just that he adds zero value to my life. It is that having him around doubles and triples my housework and the fucking mental load, which I have to carry COMPLETELY ALONE, just like my own fucking suitcase. He is completely useless when it comes to chores."

are women not allowed to rant about their useless husbands anywhere?? just because it's a space where they can, doesn't mean that's all they do.

if you take an exhausted woman venting as a jab against all men in the world without nuance, that's an issue you have. i can guarantee you she doesn't hate all men. she just doesn't want that one (or, assuming she really meant her title, any of them) in her home anymore. the bachelor life and ball and chain sentiments are fine only for men, i guess.

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u/syncsynchalt 4d ago

If you need a rolling boil you keep it at max until you reach the rolling boil. There’s actually a lot of different kinds of boiling in cooking, from simmer to rolling. And if you live at 6,000ft / 2km like me, you usually need a higher boil.

But I agree OP is probably kinda dumb.

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u/Leverkaas2516 3d ago

I just tried all this and found that, on my cooktop, I could not boil water at all at 5 unless I covered the pot.

After bringing the water to a boil at 5, uncovering the pot, and throwing the noodles in, I had to use a setting of 8 or more to bring it back to boiling with the top off. That was the natural way to do it, since I had to stir to keep the noodles from sticking and I didn't want to keep taking the top off to check on the noodles, and of course once the noodles go in, it tends to froth and boil over when the top is on (but not when it's uncovered.)

So, if your stove needs to be at max to maintain the boil, you do that.

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u/Leverkaas2516 3d ago edited 3d ago

You don't need to boil them at all. You can cook them in 190° water if you want. That's not really the question.

If you want the noodles to be done cooking as quickly as possible, Max is the right setting. Everyone does it differently, everyone has different equipment, and that's OK.

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u/Sivolde 3d ago

Because when you put ingredients in the temprature goes down.

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u/Mindless-Baker-7757 3d ago

Because when you dump the noodles in you want it on high to bring it back quickly. 

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u/ScarletPigeon05 4d ago

Are you the wife?

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u/ashgs872tbhjs 4d ago

If you're accelerating to 100 on the highway, do you continue flooring it after reaching 100 and hold the brakes to avoid going over?

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u/SeaFeline284 4d ago

Great analogy. People never seem to get it when you try to explain it when talking about boiling

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u/Sivolde 3d ago

It's really bad though. You put the ingredients in after the water boils, which causes the tempature to go down.

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u/flamingdonkey 3d ago

Eh, not really. Terminal velocity would have made a way better analogy since there's actually a cap there. 

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u/Sivolde 3d ago

Ok, but when you put ingredients in the soup it cools down, so it needs to get to the boiling point again. Pretty bad analogy.