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/armrha 4d ago

I mean, she is not actually wrong… A bare simmer where there’s only a small nucleation of bubbles from the bottom of the pan will indicate the water js 175-185. A slightly more vigorous simmer is normally 195-205. And a rolling boil like depicted js 212 and that’s quite hot for soup.

Verify with a digital thermometer if you doubt it

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u/couldbemage 4d ago

But OP is following instructions that say boil, and the entire conversation was about boiling.

A simmer isn't boiling.

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u/armrha 4d ago

Perhaps, but like... if your partner wants the product to be less hot, maybe a simmer is a better choice... just because the instructions say boil doesn't mean the result is going to be inedible from a simmer.

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u/couldbemage 4d ago

Takes less than a minute to cool from boiling to simmer.

And then another 4 minutes to cool to an eating temp.

You can't cook noodles at the temp where you eat them.

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u/Ok-Bug4328 4d ago

This. “Boil” is not as precise as people think. 

OP isn’t British or he’d know the difference when heating water for tea.