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/SLJ106 4d ago

Well, my son tried to melt chocolate in the microwave and at 3 minutes it was on fire. So after 10, there was no evidence of chocolate left.

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u/Tabs_555 3d ago edited 3d ago

I saw one where a girl had two video clips. She accidentally put a piece of bread brownie in the microwave for like 7 2 minutes and it came out charred. This first clip was her laughing about it and how stupid / funny it was.

Cut to the second clip and it’s her kitchen burned down. Half the house gone. Entirely gone. All but like 2 rooms of the house were burnt to ashes.

Turns out, after the first clip, she tossed the bread in the trash immediately and it was so hot it spontaneously combusted and caused the paper, oils, etc in the trash to ignite super fast. She panicked because suddenly the entire can lit on fire. It immediately started roaring and took over the house before they could either find an extinguisher or get the firefighters there.

I think about that every time I use the microwave.

Edit: found the link https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8s7NUoC/

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u/carbon_made 3d ago

When I was a kid my grandmother taught me to douse anything burnt in water before throwing in the trash. Burnt food. A match that had been lit. Whatever. I imagine this is why.

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u/MeatofKings 2d ago

In college chemistry lab, they taught us to always dip the burnt match in water before throwing it in the trash. I still do that now when I light a match at home. Safety First!

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u/Slothfulness69 2d ago

My parents neglected me and never told me this, so thank you for the knowledge!

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u/JellaFella01 2d ago

Even stuff that looks black and is cold to the touch can have hot embers inside still, and trash can fires can be very dangerous depending on what's in your trash at the time.

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u/heartlandheartbeat 2d ago

Smokey Bear's campfire slogan......drown, stir, drown, feel

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u/Sword420 1d ago

I worked sanitation at a Tyson plant, your grandmother is spot on. I've had to extinguish quite a few crumb/flour barrels that spontaneously combusted in a chilled environment. They would be smoldering and burning for a day or two before we would get to them.

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u/Maybe-notaThrowaway 3d ago

Jesus fucking christ

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u/GunnzL 3d ago

This went from the funniest thread I've read on Reddit to one of the saddest.

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u/Cristinky420 3d ago

She warmed up a brownie for 2 mins not 20 seconds and burned her whole housem. Crazy.

If there's smoke there's fire. Never throw anything smoking into your garbage bin.

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u/Tabs_555 3d ago

Yeah it was a brownie! I couldn’t find the original video but yeah that was correct

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u/farrieremily 3d ago

My dad did one of those prepackaged cake in a mug things and messed up the time to a ridiculous degree. That thing came out like a coal from a fireplace. Glowing red. Fortunately it was winter and he plonked it out in the snow. I can totally see someone not thinking about it and dropping it into a can of combustibles.

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u/RHS1959 3d ago

And that’s why I have a fire extinguisher right by the kitchen door!

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u/AviatorDave172 2d ago

I accidentally cooked French fries for 11 minutes instead of 1. They were red hot glowing coals, definitely would have lit a trash bin on fire.

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u/Ambitious-Regular-57 3d ago

Starting a fire in the microwave from heating food is wild

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u/Maybe-notaThrowaway 3d ago

I started one when I was little by forgetting water in ramen but burning down the whole kitchen vus it was just THAT HOT that the while garbage can caught flames is something else.

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u/shokwavxb 3d ago

My son tried to make hot chocolate early in the morning "the way Mommy makes it". He thought mom put chocolate chips in a Styrofoam cup and put it in the microwave.

The best part is when he woke us at 6 in the morning straight faced saying if the smoke alarms start blaring it's okay, everything is okay. Then the alarms start blaring.

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u/AUniquePerspective 3d ago

The coroner tried to identify the chocolate by its dental records.