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From: rick@cadtec.UUCP (Rick Auricchio)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Boiling Water
Message-ID: <93@cadtec.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-May-85 01:36:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 01:36:34 1985
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>>                Every cookbook I have read says that you
>>      should use COLD water when you are going to boil something
>>      Why not HOT water?
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>	I think it may have something to do with water softeners...

Water softeners add sodium, and make the water slightly acidic.  Our kitchen
cold water tap is plumbed to hard water rather than soft.
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