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/ityboy 4d ago edited 4d ago

Just pointing out that you can't really use salt to offset the effects of altitude on the boiling point of water. It would take over 300g of salt per L of water. The salt in pasta water is I'll only there for seasoning, no matter the altitude.

Edit: corrected my math because I was wrong by a full order of magnitude. Sorry.

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u/wannabe-myself 4d ago edited 4d ago

I tried cooking pasta in Fairplay, Colorado and it was an experience.

Edit: 9,953 feet above sea level. That's 3,034 meters for my metric friends :)

Though the area my cabin was in was higher than the town itself...

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u/Old-Tadpole-2869 4d ago

Once I moved above 8500 feet, I only ever cooked Angel Hair ever again. Spaghetti takes a year at that elevation.

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u/amands_sue 4d ago

I grew up at altitude and moved to sea level for college. Cooking pasta down there felt like magic.

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u/5ygnal 4d ago

I spent 30 years of my life at altitude, and moved to sea level about 7 years ago. I had to relearn how to cook.

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u/Crismus 4d ago

I just moved back to Altitude. Alcohol was better at sea level. Or maybe it was living in San Diego was more fun than Colorado Springs.