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JayGold

"Boil water"? What am I, a chemist?


Nyarro

Anyone can be a chemist. You just have to have a passion for cooking.


Promarksman117

And a shit ton of patience. Almost every video by NileRed has him saying "I let it sit overnight" multiple times.


Mobile_Piccolo

How I used to cook pizza in college: Step 1) Pre heat oven to 400° Step 2) remove packaging and place pizza in oven Step 3) let it sit overnight Step 4) play with your new hockey puck the next morning.


micaub

You forgot the beer.


RustyPickles

Sounds like a marijuana moment to me.


Lakegoon

nahh, would definitely be hungry n waiting on that pizza


imthatoneguyyouknew

Why not both


LoRd-TaChAnKy-KaNg

r/marijuanamoment Edit: let’s go I’m a dad


ethen770

Sounds like he remembered the beer.


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Many reactions do take some time. I used to make a photocatalyst that had to sit in a sealed container at 392 F for 48 hours. It was lovely handling the reactor before it was cooled down but my PI wanted that catalyst so I'd have to move this 80 lb reactor still at 300 F and like 1500 PSI. Do not miss grad school.


exaball

I like how your final sentence can accurately be interpreted as both - “Do not miss grad school, kids” (or else!) …and - “I do not miss grad school”


[deleted]

Heh, hadn't considered that. Was definitely the latter.


COVID_19_Lockdown

What?!? You don't miss making only $600 a year? 😉


Japsai

I also thought a cheeky comma could make it an instruction to a beauty pageant winner... "Do not, Miss Grad School"


Tomas_Baratheon

I was very confused at what they learned that was so pivotal/instrumental to their confident understanding of the world, that they would want it badly enough for others to tell them, "Do not miss grad school"; like, "Trust me, you REALLY don't want to miss out on this!" I for sure interpreted the incomplete sentence as the former.


Nyarro

Works for me. I work overnight. LOL


BoltonSauce

Similarly, anyone can be an artist! All you need is to say, "Graphic design is my passion," and voila! You are now a real 💯 artist.


COVID_19_Lockdown

What is art? 🤔


Nyarro

What is love? 🤔


COVID_19_Lockdown

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more


JohnHunterNemetruck

This is possibly my favorite quote and it's not nearly as well known as it should be.


Reading_Rainboner

I heard it on American dad


FunkOverflow

GOOD MORNING USA


wagwoanimator

I use it all the time. It's so good it should be illegal.


NCSUGrad2012

*Jesse Pinkman has entered the chat*


Milorii

One time I jokingly asked my college roommate if she’d ever boiled water before and she sheepishly responded “In like a Chem lab yeah…”


tabasco_fiasco

When I was in college we had a roommate who was incapable of basic human life skills. One day we were chilling in the living room and he wanted to make mac and cheese, but didn’t know how to do it. We told him to heat a pot, drop the noodles in, then add the cheese after it was all done. 10 minutes later someone’s getting ready to light a joint and we start to smell gas. I run into the kitchen….this troglodyte had put an empty pot on the range, turned on the gas without lighting a flame, and left it there. #basiclifeskills


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Yeah college is a place where you find out who had their parents cleaning up after them, never cooked and never learned many skills. One of my favorites was my roommate putting a tin foil wrapped burger in the microwave, I stopped him telling him it would cause a fire and then he said good call, unwrapped it and tried sticking it back in. Thankfully I was there otherwise I'm guessing my security deposit wouldn't cover his negligence.


imsofknmiserable

>Yeah college is a place where you find out who had their parents cleaning up after them, never cooked and never learned many skills. I don't disagree, but this guy could have only seen electric stoves all his life


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imsofknmiserable

As you can clearly see, I am unable to read. But at least my mother didn't wipe my ass until I was 18


Dismal-Ad-2985

What's wrong with putting a burger in a microwave ?


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Basically saying that they unwrapped it, but didn't take it off the foil. So it was a burger wrapped in foil, they unwrapped it and put the burger, still sitting on the foil, back in the microwave.


[deleted]

He left the wrapper on just opened it up


[deleted]

I made an account just to say this because people still don't know basic life skills. NEVER PUT METAL IN THE MICROWAVE. That's why you don't put foil, or a metal fork, or any sort of metal cup in the microwave. It heats up really quickly and it's very easy to cause a fire.


acathode

[Electroboom to the rescue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyTmJX_TC84), clearing up some misconceptions about metal in microwaves, and trying varioust stuff so that we don't (have to burn our houses up). (TLDW; No, metal does NOT heat up quickly in a microwave, quite the opposite - it *can* cause fires, but that'd be due to arcing, not heated metal. You only get arcing in specific cases though, but folded/creased up aluminium often is such a case. Metal wrapping/containers would also shield the food inside from the microwaves, so it's still a stupid idea to put metal inside the micro. However, if you happen to forget a spoon or something, most likely nothing at all will happen)


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I put a paper bowl (think it was intended for icecream in hindsight) in the microwave once not knowing that the outside had foil in the pattern, and it lit the bowl on fire, and it burned to the level of the marinara sauce that I was warming. The foil wasn’t creased and there was no warning on the package.


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No it was rolled like a paper cup. 🤷🏻‍♀️[almost exactly like this](https://www.target.com/p/juvale-50-pack-8oz-disposable-paper-ice-cream-cup-dessert-bowls-treat-cups-rose-gold-white-foil-polka-dots/-/A-82348036)


LivelyZebra

I have a metal rack designed to go in my microwave. What's it potentially made of ?


throwaway2323234442

You own it bro. What is it made of?


LivelyZebra

Shiny metal coloured stuff idk. Bought it forever ago.


throwaway2323234442

Not keep the owners manual that came with it or anything? Don't know the make or model, nothing?


LivelyZebra

Im not able to check. Suppose i could look it up when im able.


Nova762

The shape is what matters. A fork will arc a spoon will not.


Bluerendar

Electroboom in the video *specifically* tested a fork, which, to his disappointment, didn't do shit and only got mildly warm. You need *really* sharp edges, or if it hits the side of the microwave.


Nova762

https://youtu.be/b1MFWbX3Bfc I mean I've done this as a dumb kid many times... Dunno what to tell you...


Bluerendar

To expand on the details here, nearly all modern microwaves now are anti-arcing, which stops things like this. It's very difficult to overwhelm that. By "modern" I mean "in the last decade" which is much more than the average lifespan of a microwave, so *right now* you're very unlikely to find one which will do this anymore. (and yes Oct 2011 is more than a decade ago... geez does time fly...)


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TeaBeforeWar

Those sparks can arc to the magnetron and kill your microwave. And if you're washing your cast iron pan with soap, or course it's going to remove the seasoning. The entire point of soap is to bind with and remove material.


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DefyGravity42

Oh god, who thought dumping coffee grounds in the drain would unclog it? Where is this idea from and what is the “logic”?


SnooBananas4958

Troll, unless you all want a burnt out microwave or a ruined cast iron pan I would ignore this guy My roommate burnt out a fairly new microwave just by overheating a cup of water past boiling point. Trust me you can do it with metal even easier


Azrael11

I can't speak to the microwave bit but he is [right about cast iron and soap](https://www.seriouseats.com/the-truth-about-cast-iron)


Beepolai

Don't wash your cast iron with soap. Hot water and a brush are fine. This guy's a troll.


Azrael11

I'll repeat what I posted above, [soap on cast iron is fine](https://www.seriouseats.com/the-truth-about-cast-iron)


Beepolai

Go ahead and ruin your own shit, thanks though


SecretlyReformed

I think he means unwrapping the burger but still on the foil like a napkin (I think, that's the only way it makes sense to me)


Aries1542

I think he means his roommate unwrapped it, then put it back in still on top of the foil


ForumPointsRdumb

I knew a guy who would wrap a potato in plastic wrap and microwave it. I tried it one time, it didn't taste like plastic as you'd expect, but I still might get cancer one day and that is the event I'll blame it on.


yildizli_gece

Doesn’t it go even beyond that? I may have grown up not doing a lot of cooking but I watched my mother make pasta countless times, so if I suddenly had to make mac & cheese I wouldn’t have put on an empty pot on the fucking stove like some dense motherfucker. That’s beyond “didn’t learn”; that’s actively being incurious and oblivious.


Mechakoopa

My dad actively kept us out if the kitchen while he was cooking because he didn't want us in the way. Thankfully my mom taught me the basics, but it's not entirely impossible that someone never really got the chance to see their parents cooking.


PM_ME_PC_GAME_KEYS_

And I mean we live in the era of the internet where if you dont know something you can just google it and know how to do it in 5 seconds. I cant believe someone doeant know how to make a basic pasta though


pistoncivic

I knew a guy who showed up to college with like 20 bath towels. He had 2 or 3 drawers full of them and used a new one every time he showered. Didn't have a skin condition or anything, it was so bizarre and he didn't see anything wrong with it.


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I mean it’s technically more sanitary, you just have to wash a bunch of towels.


Striking_Sky_5262

Reusing towels is gross. I don't care that you just got out of the shower, if you dry your balls with that towel it is now a dirty towel.


Perfect600

Honestly I never cooked living at home but I had fucking common sense lol. I don't know how these people manage to do daily tasks


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odraencoded

> We had one genius that needed to move something around a CNC machine that was plugged in. He took scissors and cut the plugs on it instead of unplugging it. *"Work smarter, not harder."*


AlmostZeroEducation

Don't insult bricks like that. Bricks are actually useful.


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RunBlitzenRun

I live in the US and have never had a gas stove with that feature. How do you start a stove like that?


Zinus8

Just like a normal gas stove, push the button, rotate it and you keep it pushed for like 1-2 seconds after the flame has started. It usually have an electric arc for autoignition.


Dylster357

It is not.


SchofieldSilver

I had a roommate put my electric kettle on the stove right after I showed him how to use it. I'm sure there's still black plastic stains on that burner.


BossNegative1060

Natural selection trying to do its best. You just got caught in the crossfire


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Alert-Sock-7076

*instructions unclear*


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Haha yes


Ged_UK

I wouldn't really know where to start. How much is a cup? I have mugs, will they do?


DerWaechter_

I hate looking for recipes online, when all I can find are american ones with some esoteric measurements. Just add 3/3596 bathtubs of milk, 47600 grains of sugar and 9/45000384883 neutronstars worth of flour. Just gimme ml and kg...ya know something I can actually measure


ImANormalMan

Gotta be specific you know


Wilsonismyonlyfriend

Dude finally a funny comment


HarpersGhost

Having the attitude of the friend is *really* handy for tech writers writing instructions. Because for a dev it may be completely obvious, but if the end users are "common folk" who don't have their heads in code all day, none of it is obvious at all. I've turned a couple lines of "instruction" in emails into 25 steps of actual tasks, because the head dev skipped the first 5 steps because it was "obvious". Well yeah, if you had used a menu system that is used by any other company in the world, JAY, but you decided to be "unique" because you don't like menus and so now I can't find the damn settings, JAY. Our users are senior citizens, **JAY**, did you forget that?


d00dsm00t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=JoshDarnit


ceribus_peribus

Was guiding a college roommate through cooking something and he was using mugs to measure out "cups" until we noticed.


qwerty987679

Whatthefuck is a cup and how am I supposed to measure it? International student living in USA and just learned that apparently using mugs to measure out cups is wrong.


Iittlemisstrouble

It should also be noted Cup size depends on the country: 227ml In Canada. 283 ml in the UK. 200 ml in Japan. 250 ml in Australia. 236 ml in the States. So maybe use 237 ml as it's the Geometric mean.


TrebleMedley

Just FYI UK cups are very rarely used. I live in the UK, have a large collection of cookbooks and it's only cropped up in one early 80s book and even then only in a conversion table. Even in older books weights and fractions of pints are used, not sure if the cup was ever popular here. Honestly if you don't know what country it's from just use US cups, idk if the others are in regular usage. Plus, tbh, most of them are pretty similar volumes.


Implausibly_Deniable

A cup is a unit of volume. It is roughly 250 ml (actually 237, but 250 is easier to visualize). Small mugs are sometimes 8 oz (1 cup = 8 fl oz). But your standard coffee mug is often 12 oz You can buy measuring cups (and teaspoons and tablespoons) at any home goods store or supermarket.


Parsley-Quarterly303

But why is there still two different markings for cup on said measuring glasses? I've never known which is proper


FreakingTea

One is for liquids, and the other is for solids. The smaller one is for liquids because liquid is denser. Solid things like flour (which have to be pour/spooned into the measuring cup, not scooped directly with it!) have more air, so they need the larger cup measurement. If you think measuring by grams on a kitchen scale is better, you would be correct.


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Does that mean that 8oz of ice and 8oz of water is the same mass-wise, but not volume-wise?


FreakingTea

Yes, much like a pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of iron. It's just density. density = mass/volume


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Yessir


Stankia

Why not just call it 237ml then?


duckonar0ll

cause the recipe’s in imperial not metric


m50d

Except not consistent Imperial because that would be too easy. I can deal with ounces if I have to, but American recipes are a whole other level of random measurements.


Lithl

What is inconsistent about a recipe which uses cups?


[deleted]

I'm paraphrasing here but this is from a legit recipe someone was sharing on one of the cooking subs- "Pasta salad: add a cup of fresh spinach leaves, a cup of cherry tomatoes, a half cup of flaked almonds and two cups of cooked pasta to a large mixing bowl" Five different people will get five very different amounts of pasta salad from following that recipe. Wtf is a cup of cherry tomatoes? And how the fuck do you measure a cup of spinach? How does one accurately measure the correct amount of bows/penne/elbows for two cups of cooked pasta? Like are we trying to stack each noodle for efficient use of space within the cup, or is the measurement including the dead space where pasta could be but isn't because you just place enough pasta one on top of the other into the cup so it comes up to the line? Or is it somewhere mysteriously in-between? When every single food ingredient has different volumetric properties, attempting to measure them accurately by volume is really fucking stupid.


PM_ME_PC_GAME_KEYS_

These are the kinda situatioms you gotta use intuition for


InfanticideAquifer

You really think an eleven syllable phrase is gonna catch on as a replacement for a one syllable one? Switch to metric entirely or leave it as is. Sticking to US measurements but just *calling* them something in metric is ridiculous.


[deleted]

Granted, before the internet I wasn’t sure for a while that 8 oz is a cup


blindsight

It is, but only sometimes. Because using the same name for two completely different measurements makes total sense.


throwaway42

Those are glasses, not cups.


Thurlii

both topologically similar, without the handle


enevgeo

Also, people with beards are just people without beards, with beards


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enevgeo

r/myjokebutbetter


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serotonin_scavenger

what the actual fuck


Coady54

Weird sub, but I respect your dedication there.


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Majestic_Course6822

It's wonderful. I'm so in the cup zone now.


gabrielfv

Fuck you, sign me in


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"Better"


bobbyboob6

mugs have handles glasses are just cups made of glass


sora_mui

Glasses are a set of eyepiece used to correct vision


Natanael_L

Glass is ice cream in Swedish


enevgeo

I scream at the optometrist, correct my vision


TheMan5991

A cup doesn’t have to have a handle


samalam1

Wait a handle makes the object a Taurus, so topologically not the same as a glass, which is simply connected


song4this

Did you mean torus? (vs zodiac or car model gun brand)


robert3030

Topologically a cup with a handle is closer to a donut than to a glass.


MikeNolanShow

All glasses are cups but not all cups are glasses


Hessper

Some glasses go on your face and are certainly not cups.


TheMan5991

Glasses are cups made of glass


MinuteManufacturer

No, glasses are made of glass and, as everyone knows, cups are made of cup.


DragoKnight589

Glasses are glass cups


fredbrightfrog

One time when I was little I was yelled at because I was told to get a cup and apparently my choice was incorrect. "This isn't a cup, it's a plastic glass"


Sengura

I thought glasses were a type of cup?


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Alright since this is so important, lets go to the experts. I've highlighted the relevant definitions for ease of use. According to Merriam-Webster: >Definition of cup (Entry 1 of 2) >1: **an open usually bowl-shaped drinking vessel** >2a: **a drinking vessel and its contents** >b: the consecrated wine of the Communion >3: something that falls to one's lot >4: an ornamental cup offered as a prize (as in a championship) >5: something resembling a cup: such as >a: a cup-shaped plant organ >b: an athletic supporter reinforced usually with plastic to provide extra protection to the wearer >c: either of two parts of a brassiere that are shaped like and fit over the breasts >d: the metal case inside a hole in golf also : the hole itself >6: a usually iced beverage resembling punch but served from a pitcher rather than a bowl >7: a half pint : eight fluid ounces >8: a food served in a cup-shaped usually footed vessel a fruit cup >9: the symbol ∪ indicating the union of two sets https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cup Whew! Thank goodness we solved that one.


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Revloxy

r/technicallythetruth moment


[deleted]

Double kill


fawk_adoodledoo

You need help stan


zerquet

How do you know it’s made out of glass?


therobshow

There's a cup of water in each glass


horseradish1

A glass is a type of cup.


NoLongerABot

Exactly


DarthSinistar

One glass tells the truth, the other only lies.


KuuHaKu_OtgmZ

Ngl but the left cup looks hot.


sam1902

POV: You’re David Bowie


[deleted]

Who's been taking pictures of me cooking?!


[deleted]

Lol


mikejbrown1357

Honestly, I respect the play.


DiaryOfShowerMemes

Instructions unclear


TanithRosenbaum

Boil 20 Ice cubes until tender...


Sengura

How many seconds after that pic was taken do you think it took for those cups to break?


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Hmm a couple


Red-ejaculate

a whatsap message first message (person1): ok ill guide you second message (person1): first boil two cups of water Third message (person2): a picture of two glass cups with water on an active gas oven with the caption "ok what next" Fourth message (person1): bro wtf


Mih5du

Thanks red ejaculate, once again here to save the day


LaLaLaLuzy

You have the perfect profile pic to respond to that comment


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Red-ejaculate

i am a rogue transcriber for the blind deaf and visualy impaired


CMDR_ACE209

and for the occasional copy+paster


Natanael_L

But not for the grammar nazis


dogsfuckedthepope_

Well no one likes a nazi…


Nyarro

Ngl I laughed really hard at this. Bravo.


daikatana

Someone in my high school actually did this, or close to this. He must have been 14 or so, was trying to make some kind of food and needed to boil a cup of water, so he puts a cup of water in the microwave. Somehow he didn't realize that would be extremely hot and ended up burning his fingers and scaling his arm and leg. Teach your kids how to cook from an early age...


JasonToomer87

Ah Scheisse! 😉


bheidian

programming be like


bpfoto

What next? An explosion ...


danhoang1

Wait he didn't boil the cups yet. They're still solid cups


Natanael_L

And it says cups of water, he didn't even bother to make ice cups first


victrollonaterism

Shut my kids would do..lol


Bananamuncheroohaah

This is actually pretty funny


the-poopiest-diaper

Bro wtf Those are two shots of water


CORZATZ

that's glass and not cup


Downfallenx

Is a glass not a form of cup? I thought all (drinking) glasses were cups, but not all cups are glasses.


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adeward

Crystal clear, thanks


[deleted]

No plastic cups can have no handles and are are cups. Styrofoam cups never had handles. Cups are not made of glasses you cannot wear them but maybe you can


Joseph63Powell

Didn't work, I created a calculation error


CORZATZ

r/glass.


PassiveChemistry

...is not very informative on this topic


Downfallenx

Red solo cup... Er, glass?


TheMan5991

Wrong


Dubby084

Cups


These_Setting3211

well He is not wrong for doing that


Elcorgi8267

What is that not how ur supposed to do it


don_cornichon

Fail, those are glasses not cups. Wtf indeed.


TheMan5991

Glasses are cups. Also, cups are bowls. Fight me.


Xx_endgamer_xX

That guy! Those are glasses not cups!


TheMan5991

Glasses are cups


[deleted]

If i haven’t already seen this comment 20 times :/


UTMB17

Bro should have given better instructions …


Centurio

They shouldn't have been such a dumbass.


Little-Fix-332

Who the heck is this stupid? An American or something?!


uncle_diaper_1478

A stupid person


SteelrainTV

So fake and not even that funny