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Even a pot shouldn't be the first thing that comes to your mind. It should be an electric kettle. Or are you from the US where you can't use electric kettles (efficiently) cos ur shitty electrical grid runs only on 120V and therefore it takes ages to boil the water lol
A kettle? What's that?
I did try shooting my gun a whole bunch and cooking them with the heated up barrel
Good lord, that's terrible advice. Absolutely a pot should be the first thing that comes to mind. Electric kettle? I guess your idea of "ramen" is just pot noodles?
You guys are putting cannabutter on your noodles or something?
Dude how much Ramen do u eat in go that requires a pot? Just put the ramen in a bowl, boil some water with the kettle (since it is much faster than boiling it in a pot, unless u live in the backward country named the US) and pour the boiling water into the bowl. Jeez, do I really have to tell u how to make ramen lol. Also, boiling water with the kettle means one less thing to clean afterwards.
Some of us have kettles , even in the benighted medieval dystopia of the US, but we think of ramen as food, not something where you just add hot water.
In Canada our electricity also only goes to 120v, but the simple solution for this is to utilize the already hot water from the water heater. The hot tap on full already comes out steaming. Add that to the electric kettle and it takes less than a minute to boil 500ml.
I've always been told the water from the hot water tap isn't safe to drink due to bacterial and mineral buildup in the water heater. Not that I can drink my tap water where I live anyway (America!) but even when I lived with delicous well water I never drank the hot tap water.
That's crazy, I've never heard that. I know our hot water heaters are kept high enough that bacteria can't grow, and every source I've found says the other risk is lead contamination, and we don't have any lead pipes in our house, so I'm going to assume this is an old outdated rule. Plus for the bacteria concern, it's being boiled again anyway.
Even without lead pipes, it may be worth testing ….
My reason for not putting hot water into the kettle is that I need to run the water for a bit to get it hot, and that takes longer than the few seconds I’d save
1: all the pipes leading to my house are out of my control and will be sending the same temperature and purity of water regardless of what temperature I set the tap to? The water goes into my house, to the hot water heater, to the tap. Or just into my house to the tap. Either way whatever is outside of that is outside of my control and the hot water heater can't cause the water to retroactively absorb lead from pipes outside of my house.
And as for your second point. Running the kettle from cold takes like 4-5mins. Running the hot water to max temp takes 30 secs. Running the kettle with max temp water takes 1:30-2 mins. That's still like a 50% time savings, for a 500ml load. I haven't tried with larger amounts than that because I don't need more than that, but I assume that the greater the volume of water, the more time it would take from cold.
I thinks it’s more lead )and other metal) accumulation but yeah …..
The first time I remember hearing a specific , not generic, concern was when legionnaires became A thing several decades ago. People were turning down their water temperature to save money. But legionnaires is more tolerant of heat than most other germs, so there’s a window of opportunity where the water is hot enough to kill off most diseases but cool enough to let legionnaires flourish.
Even today, you’re supposed to keep hot water at 120°F at the tap to prevent scalding but your water heater at 140°F to kill off legionnaires. Most people dont
Well yeah, but if u put it into a kettle and boil it, it should be fine, cos boiling kills the bacteria.
Do me a favor, fill 2 cups, one with tap hot water, one with cold. Let them go to room temperature and taste them. Hot has a taste, and it's not great.
Okay, now bring two cups to room temperature and then boil both and tell me you can tell the difference. I'm not talking about drinking hot water straight from the tap.