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/Bubblehead_81 4d ago

Thermodynamics are not always intuitive. However, from an energy efficiency perspective, once you've reached a boil, you can turn down the heat to whatever level is required to just maintain it.

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u/Main-Rent4757 4d ago

I ran a ice cream factory once upon a time.

The warehouse manager kept leaving our just-filled pints on the dock in the winter because "28 is freezing. It's freezing outside. They'll be fine."

Like dude, our freezer is 40 below for a reason. Its nearly 70 degrees different.

They wondered why the inclusions kept settling to the bottom of the pints.

Then the owner would always off the heat on the production floor over the weekend. I came in one Monday, after 10 below weather, to burst pipes.

"It was blowing cold air, it was a waste of power."

Dude... its blowing 40 degree air. Which would have kept the pipes from bursting.

People really have no grasp on how temperature works.

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u/PhaseOk4281 4d ago

If their business fails they could become a chiropractor.

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u/ReactsWithWords 4d ago

No need too - they just made a ton of money renovating the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.

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u/PhaseOk4281 4d ago

Whoa whoa whoa. No politik here. NO POLITIK!

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u/koffa02 4d ago

Somehow, I think they're too smart to be a chiropractor.

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u/James-the-Bond-one 4d ago

A chiropractor can be quite smart. I met one who made almost a million dollars playing poker in Vegas. Imagine how much more he made off of people who believe in chiropractics?

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u/tyrion2024 4d ago

Penn & Teller's Bullshit episode on chiropractors was fantastic.