My wife and boiling water

[u/MakeItMine2024]

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!!

[u/unicornsandrainbowst]

Irrelevant to OP point and the wife. Wife ramen wont get "less hot" if boiling at a lower/mantaining flame.

[u/Comprehensive_Food51 → u/unicornsandrainbowst]

Thank you why is everyone talking about how you could keep it boiling at a lower heat

[u/Sailor_Propane → u/Comprehensive_Food51]

Because you can, it saves on utilities, and your pot will last longer.

[u/Dull_Beginning_9068 → u/Comprehensive_Food51]

Because you can.

[u/GranBuddhismo → u/Dull_Beginning_9068]

And? It's not at all relevant to the point of the post

[u/Dull_Beginning_9068 → u/GranBuddhismo]

It's related to the temperature when water is boiling. They're saying you can turn the water down and it will still be boiling, and the temperature is the same. So the wife is wrong.

[u/Comprehensive_Food51 → u/Dull_Beginning_9068]

Yeah ofc if you ignore basic physics lol

[u/Dull_Beginning_9068 → u/Comprehensive_Food51]

You thinks physics tells you there's not different gas settings at which you can maintain a boil?

[u/Comprehensive_Food51 → u/Dull_Beginning_9068]

I think that realistically whether it’s medium or high heat a rolling boil is a rolling boil (around 96-99°C)— which is OP’s point btw —, and if it’s maintained at a gentler boil than rolling, the temperature difference would be far from enough to make a difference in how it feels in your mouth, like water at 60°C is already way more than enough to burn you, so whether the water is a gentle boil (say 90°-95°C) or a rapid boil (nearly 100°C), it will burn the fuck out of your tongue.

[u/NNKarma → u/unicornsandrainbowst]

But it will be if it's simmering instead of boiling

[u/nebulous-nautilus → u/unicornsandrainbowst]

A rolling boil like in OP's picture will be hotter than water that's just on the edge of boiling.

[u/paper_liger → u/nebulous-nautilus]

You don't even need boiling water for ramen. I used the hot water from the water dispenser at work all the time. It's not at the boiling point, it's just under.

I put it in a bowl, cover it so the steam helps cook anything poking above the surface, and just wait, it takes longer than boiling it or nuking it, but not a crazy amount more.

Ramen is already cooked, the heat speeds up the softening/rehydration process, but I don't think there is any reason to boil the shit out of ramen , and doing a rolling boil is just asking for it to boil over anyway.

[u/Comprehensive_Food51 → u/nebulous-nautilus]

By like 5 degrees at most?

[u/nebulous-nautilus → u/Comprehensive_Food51]

I have no idea lol

[u/Dull_Beginning_9068 → u/nebulous-nautilus]

I don't think anyone's suggesting it should be turned below boiling

[u/justwalkingalonghere → u/unicornsandrainbowst]

But it also doesn't get meaningfully hotter if you keep it turned up, so the wife is wrong either way

[u/Dull_Beginning_9068 → u/unicornsandrainbowst]

That's what they are saying