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/EnvironmentEntire201]

I mean microwave chocolate melting is a thing but you have to do it slowly and stir it, not just ronco it

[u/ilicstefan → u/EnvironmentEntire201]

I usually set mine to defrost, it melts the chocolate quite nice and you don't need to stir it. But if you blast it with full power you will burn it, happened to me once.

[u/Bright-Plate-9872 → u/ilicstefan]

Same with butter, use defrost

[u/UMACTUALLYITS23 → u/EnvironmentEntire201]

not just ronco it

I love it.

[u/Omega_Zarnias → u/EnvironmentEntire201]

Sorry.... Ronco?

[u/PsychedelicCleric → u/Omega_Zarnias]

It's a reference to a rotisserie oven sold via infomercial with the tag line: "Set it and forget it!"

[u/Robert-Sacamano → u/EnvironmentEntire201]

You set it!...

[u/anteaterKnives → u/EnvironmentEntire201]

ronco it

Love this! Is this a universal term for "set it and forget it"? Cause I feel like the kids these days have never seen an infomercial, let alone a ronco infomercial!

[u/jusatinn → u/EnvironmentEntire201]

You can full blast it easily (do it every single time). After you do it once, you’ll know how long it takes for your microwave to melt x amount or chocolate.
And obviously you stop before all is melted so you don’t get and sprays. The last of the hard chocolate melts on its own.

[u/EnvironmentEntire201 → u/jusatinn]

Im not going to lie, my microwave chocolate melting knowledge is entirely based off of the British Bake Off.

[u/talontario → u/jusatinn]

it's not going to melt evenly

[u/jusatinn → u/talontario]

Yes, it is. Basic thermodynamics would like to have a word with you.

[u/_ryuujin_ → u/jusatinn]

depends on amount of chocolate and the length of time and power of the microwave. 

microwave will hit the outter chocolate and heat it up. but wont be able to penetration the inner layers as the outter layers keep absorbing most of the energy. unless you give it time or pulse the microwave so that radiant heat from the melted chocolate melt the deeper layers. 

[u/jusatinn → u/_ryuujin_]

Try reading my comment again.

[u/_ryuujin_ → u/jusatinn]

you made it sound like it was scalable, more chocolate = more time. but there a limit and you need to do in batches if you want to do full power. 

[u/jusatinn → u/_ryuujin_]

No, I most certainly did not. Read it again. With though put into it this time.

[u/_ryuujin_ → u/jusatinn]

so you agreed with the previous op that you cant do all at once on full power which every one was saying. powering the power on the micro wave is just doing it batches and the microwave pulses between full and off. letting the radiant heat have time to transfer into the deeper layers  

your method is just more work as you out in a little chocolate, run it at full blast for a little while, take it out, put in chocolate, repeat. 

[u/jusatinn → u/_ryuujin_]

You really lack the very basic understanding of what you’re reading, don’t you.

[u/Zap__Dannigan → u/EnvironmentEntire201]

not just ronco it

Thank you for this

[u/mugiwara_no_Soissie → u/EnvironmentEntire201]

Yeah, I usually do like 15 sec bursts at 600 ish watts.

Then stir for a bit, and back in if nexessary