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> I explained that it doesn't matter, the water won't get any hotter. I'll just waste electricity making steam. He didn't believe me

I think we had the same roommate. I used to call him Captain Humidity because he filled the kitchen with steam.






That's hilarious. Reminds me of another person in my life who just burns everything. I keep telling her to calm down with the heat and she keeps putting her induction top on boost then just going to do something else while things burn. She goes through teflon(or whatever they replaced it with) frying pans on a monthly basis, she has like 4 of them right now and they're all flaking off because she overheats them. Like properly destroyed. All her plastic utensils are messed up, molten and broken because she just leaves them on these 1000 degree frying pans.

I tried buying a carbon steel pan for her thinking it can take the heat but after a month it was rusty and caked with carbonized food that she never took the time to scrub off. In hindsight a stainless steel pan would probably have been better but I'm sure she would have found a way to destroy that too.


Shower cartridges can be adjusted to trim back the maximum hot setting. Maybe stoves should have that feature.



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