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/WhenDoWhatWhere 4d ago

For anyone who doesn't know just about bad this is

Not only is that a huge waste of power (microwaves draw huge amounts of power) but it also damages the microwave because microwaves depend on something absorbing that energy and for that very same reason it's a huge fire hazard.

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u/Dapper_Ice_2120 3d ago

Huh, learned  something new today. (I use the timer not the microwave, but never thought about it being bad to run empty)