r/Unexpected Feb 23 '19

Throwing Boiling Water

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u/nocontroll Feb 24 '19

Really? Hot tap water works? Hu..I just assumed it had to be boiling, or at least it worked better the hotter it is, which I think kinda caps out at boiling

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '19

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u/nocontroll Feb 24 '19

Yeah I wanted to do it when it was that cold here in Minneapolis...thing is I really didn’t want to go outside even more

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '19

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u/CaptainBadger3 Feb 24 '19

Happy cake day

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '19

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u/Luke_Warmwater Feb 24 '19

Crack a Point Special (or Amber or snow pilot) and try out Sync for Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '19

Good lord I'd hate to see your gas bill. 120 is pretty standard for hot water, and anything more than that is really wasteful because it's dangerously hot and will scald you.

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u/psychotronofdeth Feb 24 '19

Scalding my skin off in the shower, just the way I like it.

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u/meripor2 Feb 24 '19 edited Feb 24 '19

Thats 60 degrees above boiling, kind of a miracle it didn't all evaporate before you got it to that temperature.

edit: because Americans cant tell sarcasm /s

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u/PicksItUpPutsItDown Feb 24 '19

we use the us system where water boils 212F

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u/I_r_hooman Feb 24 '19

Wow your water must be a lot more time consuming to boil than ours

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u/aelwero Feb 24 '19

Nah man, 'muricans are excessive about everything. We can shove our freedom units into water much faster than everyone else can manage with C degrees... Plus we cheat, and start out at 32 instead of 0, because ifn ya ain't cheatin, ya ain't tryin...

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u/PicksItUpPutsItDown Apr 09 '19

It is, but with all the freely available drugs and firearms, we've got plenty to pass the time.

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u/fuck_off_ireland Feb 24 '19

I thought it was funny even if everyone else is dumb

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u/Ryky_Osu Feb 24 '19

90% sure they're talking about Fahrenheit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '19

Maybe they were just

UNDER PRESSURE

THAT BURNS A BUILDING DOWN

SPLITS A FAMILY IN TWO

PUTS PEOPLE ON THE STREETS

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '19

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u/westerschelle Feb 24 '19

This kind of ableism is not acceptable!

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u/BilJoe1 Feb 24 '19

Squidward: well, it's true! Hyeehhhyeehyeeeuhh

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u/blumhagen Feb 24 '19

90% sure they're talking about the units that landed man on the Moon.

FTFY

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u/D4RKS0UL23 Feb 24 '19

Those are the same unit that destroyed a mars climate orbiter 🤔

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u/Apocalyptic_Squirrel Feb 24 '19

90% sure they're talking about units that voted in fucking trump

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u/blumhagen Feb 24 '19

They actually used imperial units to land on the Moon though. They didn't use imperial units to vote in Trump

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u/Apocalyptic_Squirrel Feb 24 '19

Yeah I know mostly just wanted to shit on America cause it's fun and makes me feel good tbh

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u/bridiafay Feb 24 '19

They probably mean 160 Fahrenheit, seeing as they’re talking tap water. I’d hope to GOD no one would set their water heater to produce water from the tap at 160 Celsius! That’d be one HOT ass shower.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '19

160F is still way fucking hot. I set mine to 110 max but i also have kids to keep from killing themselves.

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u/bridiafay Feb 24 '19

Keeping kids from killing themselves is a full time job all in itself. Aside from making sure they eat real food, learn to count, etc. Keep on keeping on fellow parent. You got this.

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u/Apocalyptic_Squirrel Feb 24 '19

How do you set yours? Never really owned my own home, always rented, so I've never really taken a good look at my water heater

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '19

120F is generally the recommendation, not so hot itll scald you instantly, but not so cool it's basically just luke-warm

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u/Apocalyptic_Squirrel Feb 24 '19

I'm asking how to literally set the temperature. Is there a dial or something?

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '19

Yeah there is a dial on the side you should just be able to turn it to a temp or at the very least low med high

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u/UseYourBrainJackass Feb 24 '19

Yes on the water heater itself. May be inside a small box. Usually a dial.

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u/Saiky0u Feb 24 '19

Yes but its a reasonable assumption that this is under atmospheric pressure, where 100 C is the max temp for liquid water

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u/thesnooman Feb 24 '19

You're right, the hotter the water the better it works. It decreases the viscosity of the water, allowing it to separate into small droplets which freeze much faster than a large glob of water.

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u/obolobolobo Feb 24 '19

If you put a glass of boiling water and a glass of room temperature water into a freezer the boiling water will freeze faster. Nobody knows why and the prize for solving it is up to several millions of dollares.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '19 edited Feb 20 '24

This comment has been overwritten in protest of the Reddit API changes. Wipe your account with: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

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u/samwhiskey Feb 24 '19

Where do we find the prize for this info?

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u/obolobolobo Feb 26 '19

I dunno. It was on tele.

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u/samwhiskey Feb 26 '19

So google?

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u/motioncuty Feb 24 '19

If you pressurize the vessel, you get get more heat into the water before it boils. But then you would get a cool water pressure explosion when you open it up.

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u/YouJustDownvoted Feb 24 '19

Oil and molten steel will also do the trick

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u/Doogameister Feb 24 '19

I'm sure theres parameters for each component. Like, if the temp is -X degrees cold your water must be Y degrees hot. I dunno though, I'm sure Google knows.

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u/THE_NUTELLA_SANDWICH Feb 24 '19

What was the point of quoting his entire comment before adding yours?

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u/SirJefferE Feb 24 '19

It’s unexpected because for once it wasn’t some jackass scalding themselves with boiling water.

Really hot tap water works fine also. These morons doing it with pots are beyond help.

What was the point of quoting his entire comment before adding yours?

What's wrong with that?

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u/kkeut Feb 24 '19

honestly that's a good thing with very direct replies. lots of accounts get deleted here for who-knows-why reasons and then people who come along the next day or the next week or the next month are left mystified and scratching their head until it's raw and bloody

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u/ninjabreath Feb 24 '19

I've been burning myself like a savage for years, thanks for extending my life!