On Saturday, March 1, 2014 2:45:34 AM UTC-6, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
> sf > wrote:
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> > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:24:02 -0800, gtr > wrote:
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> >> 35 years later I heard Gordo tell a lackey in Hell's Kitchen to restart
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> >> a dish that demanded boiling water, likely pasta. Someone noted the
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> >> lackey pulling cold water and Gordo asked why. They proffered the
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> >> age-old snipe-hunting mythology: Cold water boils faster and his
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> >> incredulity knew only the limits of his rage du jour
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> > Boiling faster would be some wanna be science nerd making things up.
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> > I've heard something to do with heath concerns... probably coming from
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> > the old lead pipe days. In any case I'm not in such a rush that I
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> > care and start with cold water.
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It was about lead pipes, but in most regions the insides of pipes develop
an inner coating of calcium carbonate that eliminates any real chance of
lead leaching into the water.
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> Water from the water heater tastes funny. I do not consider it to be
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> potable.

It has less dissolved gasses, but water boiled on the stove is no different from water from the hot water heater. If you think it does, you're imagining
things.

--B