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Can one really burn water?
Has anyone ever said to you: “Oh, the kettle just boiled, don’t switch it on again, you’ll burn the water!”? Old wives tail? How does one “burn” H20? Can it be that people lead themselves to believe that boiling the kettle again can give the water a metallic taste?
17 mths ago
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I suspect that people are referring more figuratively to the taste of repeatedly boiled water rather than to any literal sense of having burnt it. Boiling water causes evaporation, thereby concentrating whatever impurities and minerals were in the water to begin with. It also allows more of the crap like limescale in the kettle to flavour the water. And some oxygen is lost by boiling, so the water will have a flatter, less lively taste, which in turn affects the flavour of your hand-picked by virgins organic fair trade Oolong with orchid blossoms.
17 mths ago
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Boil it away,not burn it,boiling water it turns to steam,if there is no water left you will burn the pan...most kettles these days have a overload function if there is no water the kettle will not work...
17 mths ago
Young married women can...
17 mths ago
Any sense of logic will clearly result in a resounding NO. perhaps it is due to people burning coffee on the stove that resulted in the saying being adopted. The impurities in the water might stain the kettle, but not any more so than it would have done if you boiled two kettles of water. The increase of a possible metallic transfer would double but still be a negligible amount. My vote goes for the 'hand-me-down' saying. Just like the reference of 'on' and 'off' to an alarm. Also take care, a wife with a tail could also be a man with a dress!?!?
17 mths ago
No, but you can superheat steam.
17 mths ago
Water (H2O) - no. But if you were to send an electrical current through the water, splitting the H (hydrogen) from the O (oxygen), then you'd end up with a highly flammable substance, which off course is the hydrogen (the stuff that burn in stars). So in a sense, water can burn if you split the molecules up, however once you split it up, it's no longer water, and thus it's not water that's burning...but it's close enough right?
17 mths ago
I am sure Scrote and KakSak's opinions are sound, but the burnt water still tastes like shit.....
17 mths ago
I do think that if you cook it again, it does/may taste different (or in her view burnt), even though I do not think it is possible to burn water. Then again if Adele can "Set Fire to the rain", maybe MEN just do not know anything.
17 mths ago
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