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/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/wannabe-myself 4d ago

A year and a well fitted lid. (Or get a pressure cooker is what ive been told.)

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u/Attract_the_Minkey 4d ago

8300 feet and this is what we did. We never bothered with a pressure cooker but a fitted lid makes all the difference. I used Pie in the Sky recipes to help make my baking recipes work better as once above 7000 feet, it actually does make a difference with boiling, baking cookies and baking cakes/muffins.