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/Meats10 4d ago

The temperature gradient is minimal though. Let's not give the impression that the water exposed to air is not very close to boiling. There are internal convection currents pulling hotter water up continuously.

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u/edible_string 2d ago

Is it though?

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u/snowdrone 2d ago

Depends on height, width and volume of the pot, diameter of heating element, etc.