• shrugs@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Tbh, I don’t get it. How can a coffee, that can be max 100°C cause such burns? I would have never believed hot/boiling water is that dangerous, without that story.

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        4 months ago

        That’s literally a temperature you would cook meat with

        What do you think people are made of?

        • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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          4 months ago

          TIL, videos saying “cook meat at 180°” actually meant 180°F and not 180°C.

          Now I have to check what my induction stove means when it reads 180 in deep frying mode.

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            4 months ago

            Hot air/gas, hot water/liquid, and a hot solid behaved very differently. The numbers depend a lot on what’s being measured. There’s also a big variable of time.

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              4 months ago

              The cheap induction stove is not really measuring anything.

              Its PWM has been tuned to get to the temperature the user selects, under whatever testing conditions they had while R&D. The displayed temperature is just the user selected temperature.

              But setting it to 120(whatever unit) manages to make good enough french fries, so that’s fine by me.

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        4 months ago

        Boiling water is extremely dangerous! Water at 140°F (60°C) will cause a serious burn in 3 seconds. Even water at 120°F (49°C) will cause a serious burn within 10 minutes. Source

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        4 months ago

        Well, scalding hot water, some of the hottest you are legally allowed to have set out of a water heater, is about 130 degrees F, or 54 degrees C. That will scald you in a few seconds.

        Her coffee was near double that. So, ice at 0, can burn you at 54, and then around 100 degrees… Yeah.

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        4 months ago

        I mean, it’s easy to believe when you consider what might happen if you put your hand into a boiling pot of pasta, for example.