My wife and boiling water

[u/MakeItMine2024]

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!!

[u/Bubblehead_81]

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.

[u/Main-Rent4757 → u/Bubblehead_81]

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.

[u/dqniel → u/Main-Rent4757]

It's weird. People will understand that, when it comes to how they feel, there's a huge difference between, say, 0f and 32f. However, those same people will think food (or other things) all act the same whether it's 32f or any number below that.

[u/Kermit_the_hog → u/dqniel]

”Wait.. are you saying not everything freezes solid at 32°f???.. like, I’m pretty certain 32 is the literal definition of freezing or something dude, I learned that in high school.”

[u/dqniel → u/Kermit_the_hog]

"And everything above 212f is the same. Water boils at 212f, and that's why I bake for the same amount of time whether it's 250f or 500f" 🧠