"gtr" > wrote in message news:2014022514240221334-xxx@yyyzzz...
> On 2014-02-25 15:52:51 +0000, barbie gee said:
>
>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, sf wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> How to combine pasta with sauce... and you know which numbskull this
>>> is posted for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBpbWhfsBxw
>>
>> Maybe we need to start them off with Boiling Water:
>>
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BSbfJMtDt4>
>
> First: I HAD that faucet until replaced last week. It totally sucked.
>
> Second: I have heard many times in life that cold water boils faster
> than warm water. I don't know where I heard it first, but from the
> time I was in my teens and beginning to do some cooking I thought about
> it, rejected it and moved on with my life.
>
> 35 years later I heard Gordo tell a lackey in Hell's Kitchen to restart
> a dish that demanded boiling water, likely pasta. Someone noted the
> lackey pulling cold water and Gordo asked why. They proffered the
> age-old snipe-hunting mythology: Cold water boils faster and his
> incredulity knew only the limits of his rage du jour.
>
> I have no idea how that bullshit got started but was delighted to find
> someone else had heard it. But was also saddened that they didn't use
> elementary-school physics to override it.

lol

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