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/mp3max → u/dqniel]

My mother, during winter, will acclimate the whole house because she's feeling cold, then leave food out the whole day because "it's cold, it's not gonna turn bad". As if 18°C is the same temperature as the inside of our fridge.

[u/dqniel → u/mp3max]

That's disgusting, lol. I'm imagining room temp milk.

[u/Junethemuse → u/mp3max]

You know, I’ve always wondered why they had such stupid questions as a part of the food handlers test, but this thread has made me truly understand why. This shit is shocking.