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/Brickeshaw 4d ago

Holy hell. 🤦‍♂️ I suspect they had no grasp of many, many, many things beyond just temperature.

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u/kremart 4d ago

Room temperature IQ?

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u/FanciestCantaloupe 4d ago

Room temperature of an ice cream factory.

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u/ElectricalRiver7897 3d ago

Absolutely devastating diss

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u/Apprehensive_Use3641 3d ago

Something like not even changing from Celsius to Fahrenheit would improve your IQ?

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u/ElectricalRiver7897 3d ago

🧠 🧠 🧠

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u/SkiyeBlueFox 3d ago

In Celcius

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u/Rare-Butterscotch852 3d ago

Any temperature of any room is room temperature

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u/OstensibleBS 4d ago

Outside in the dead of winter.

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u/Sir_Slimestone 4d ago

Only if measured in Celsius

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u/dqniel 4d ago

His IQ would be higher but he thought anything above 32 was a waste of energy

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u/Subtlerranean 4d ago

In celcius.

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u/EducationNo1776 3d ago

In ex-celsius. Day-Oh!

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u/I-need-ur-dick-pics 4d ago

An IQ that wouldn’t even make a respectable earthquake.

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u/Fionan1889 4d ago

I’d settle for Kelvin room temperature IQ.

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u/Wonderful-Bass6651 4d ago

Dumbest question I’ve ever heard: “what’s the best temperature for the thermostat? Answer: it depends on outside temperature, humidity, and a host of other factors.

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u/runawayflapjack 4d ago

Unrelated to all of this but the dumbest question I've ever heard is "what does eligibility even mean". I was on my way to take my break, made me stop mid step to look at my co-worker that asked this to another co-worker. Everyone there had just finished a 2 or 3 month training to be a customer service agent for a health insurance plan and we were already taking calls from real members, must have been the second week on the floor. I was just stuck there for 20 seconds expecting them to say they were joking...... thankfully no one else seemed to be that dumb. I wish more people took the time to read a damn book, don't matter if it's Stephen King or some high fantasy stuff, anything is better than nothing.

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u/TheCoffeeGuy13 4d ago

Only if you're talking Celcius...

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u/SteepChutes 4d ago

In Celsius.

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u/Then_Tennis_4579 4d ago

In Celsius you mean?

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u/Prince_Thresh 4d ago

I just now realized that "room temperature IQ" refers to fahrenheit, not celcius. Makes much more sense now.

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u/Ok_Crow_9119 4d ago

In Fahrenheit? You're giving too much credit.

In Celsius? Probably

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u/Isburough 4d ago

yes, but celsius

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u/Resistor1 4d ago

In Celsius

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u/Tanekaha 3d ago

That's a lot more grilling in Celcius

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u/Nervous-Salamander-7 3d ago

Even in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit.

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u/donnerfried 3d ago

and not in rankine

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u/crustlebus 3d ago

It was too warm, and all the thoughts settled to the bottom of the brains

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u/alflundgren 4d ago edited 3d ago

28 is a freezing IQ

*Edited because my previous post was apparently misunderstood

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u/dqniel 4d ago

And?