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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Boiling Water
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 11:48:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 11:48:19 1985
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>Every cookbook I have read says that you should use COLD water
>when you are going to boil something (like noodles in a pot).  Why
>not HOT water?  Does anyone have an answer?

*** REPLACE YOUR ASTERISKS NOW ***

The way my mom explained it, you never know what goes on inside a water
heater, and for any cooking you want to use the water just as it comes out
of the ground (or reservoir or whatever). Just pure, clean fresh water, not
some that's had the bejeesus heated out of it for who knows how long. I
mean, there might be molecules in their that have been roaming around the
tank for WEEKS!

And by the way, you can believe my mom: she's the world's greatest cook,
having invented gravy and the easy way to peel an orange. She also taught
all her sons the CORRECT way to boil water - zap it!

Hope that helps.

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