Timeline for When boiling water without any other ingredients in it, why start from cold?
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| Dec 11, 2020 at 8:56 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Re: cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/21471/… in the sidebar… never drink tanked hot water. Hot water is only potable if it comes directly through an on-demand heater directly off the mains supply. | |
| Dec 30, 2015 at 22:22 | history | edited | rumtscho♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added most misunderstood point to the title
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| Mar 14, 2015 at 12:05 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | @ceejayoz I'm late to this party, but recall there is also the counterintuitive Mpemba effect (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect), which was also ridiculed at first. I'm not claiming there's such a thing a reverse Mpemba effect, but maybe the myth persists due to misremembering which way it's supposed to go. | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 18:24 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCooking/status/576448745170169856 | ||
| Mar 13, 2015 at 17:16 | answer | added | tfmlang | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 17:44 | answer | added | David Richerby | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 11:04 | answer | added | slim | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 6:30 | answer | added | JSideris | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 19, 2011 at 20:04 | comment | added | renegade | I always start from hot water. But then I have a newer hot water heater that I know is free of sediment. | |
| Nov 13, 2010 at 4:57 | comment | added | Zoredache | Have you considered performing a simple test measuring how long it takes your cold water to boil versus warm water? | |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 13:28 | vote | accept | Erik P. | ||
| Oct 24, 2010 at 20:52 | comment | added | ceejayoz | Cold water boiling faster is one of those persistent myths that proves that many people are unable to think critically. Feel free to laugh at people who haven't thought it through. :-p | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 16:59 | answer | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | timeline score: 40 | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 16:58 | answer | added | s_hewitt | timeline score: 39 | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 16:53 | answer | added | sarge_smith | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 16:34 | history | asked | Erik P. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |