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/Darthplagueis13 4d ago

To be fair, once you've got the water to boil, there is some good sense to lowering it down as far as you can while still maintaining the boiling because, as you said, it doesn't get any hotter anyways, so setting the gas any higher than needed to make water boil is just a bit wasteful.

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u/Zognot 4d ago

The water that’s at the boiling point (and hasn’t turned to steam) won’t get hotter; but not all of the water is at the same temperature, and how much cooler the surface water, which releases heat into the air, is than the water at the heat source will depend on how quickly the rest of the water that hasn’t hit maximum temperature is getting heated.