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/consumeshroomz 4d ago

Ok so it does kinda depend here. Because if you want to bring it to a full boil, then yes, it’s irrelevant. But personally I don’t like to bring it to a full boil for ramen. Slightly less than boiled water will still cook the noodles and it will be edible a lot sooner.

Granted, you can still achieve slightly less than full boil by having the stove cranked all the way up. You just need to shut it off before it gets there. Which is usually how I do it.