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Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

Captain Hygiene posted:

Oh it's easy to avoid, but I get it all the time when I'm microwaving water for whatever cooking need, just with some of my regular mugs or glass measuring cups.

Just how covered in 3rd degree burns are your hands and forearms?

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# ? May 30, 2024 03:55

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

Motronic posted:

Just how covered in 3rd degree burns are your hands and forearms?

Haha it's easy to work around as long as you're thinking about what you're doing.

Although, I don't even have a particularly good argument for using the microwave as I have a nice electric kettle too, I just still use the microwave sometimes, especially when I need a small amount of water.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:33

ScienceSeagull: May 17, 2021; Figure 1 Smart birds.

B-Rock452 posted:

There is a guy at my old office who thought the microwave would shrink his muscles (he was an amateur bodybuilder). He would use it but as soon as he hit the start button he would he would sprint out of the break room and stand in the hallway massaging his arms. And if he came in and saw the microwave was on he would run out and get angry no one told him it was on. He was really weird.

Another co worker was in the bathroom one day and the guy came in and started talking to his biceps.

Did anyone ask him how many days are in a week?

# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:34

Dr. Stab: Sep 12, 2010; 👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

I have never in my life felt the need to microwave water. Is this like a dorm room hack thing?

Here's my hot appliance take: I don't really have a need for a toaster. Everyone seems to have one, but, like, toast isn't a big part of my diet. I guess I'm just supposed to have one in case I want to get some eggos or pop tarts or something?

# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:41

Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

Dr. Stab posted:

Here's my hot appliance take: I don't really have a need for a toaster. Everyone seems to have one, but, like, toast isn't a big part of my diet. I guess I'm just supposed to have one in case I want to get some eggos or pop tarts or something?

My family uses the toaster all the time. I have basically no use for it on a regular basis...or pretty much ever, so I get you. But I understand it's a thing and we're the weird ones.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:43

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Yeah, I don't see the point of a toaster, it's also a mess to clean.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:44

the holy poopacy: May 16, 2009; hey! check this out; Fun Shoe

You can cook Eggos in the microwave and pop tarts are better cold anyhow. Toasters are for toast.

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hallo spacedog: Apr 3, 2007; this chaos is killing me
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the holy poopacy posted:

pop tarts are better cold anyhow

# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:54

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

Dr. Stab posted:

I have never in my life felt the need to microwave water. Is this like a dorm room hack thing?

As far as I'm aware, it's just a common thing in the US to have a microwave and a stove as the most common cooking tools, and the microwave is just faster for that most of the time. Like, growing up, it was just "need to heat water? microwave time" as the default for everyone I knew, not some kind of hack.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 01:55

Hexaoct: May 1, 2007

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Yeah, I don't see the point of a toaster, it's also a mess to clean.

Lol, look at this scrub that cleans their toaster. Just wait until enough crumbs build up that it catches on fire. It's like the self-cleaning cycle on an oven!

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:01

wizardofloneliness: Dec 30, 2008

I actually decided to not get a microwave when I moved into my current apartment. I'd been using my old roommate's one and I'm really limited on counter space anyway. I figured it would also cut down on the amount of microwavable junk I buy. But when it comes to heating water, an electric kettle is definitely the way to go, even if you have a microwave. I saw the light years ago and now it's basically my most used kitchen appliance.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:04

Invisible Clergy: Sep 25, 2015; "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

Captain Hygiene posted:

As far as I'm aware, it's just a common thing in the US to have a microwave and a stove as the most common cooking tools, and the microwave is just faster for that most of the time. Like, growing up, it was just "need to heat water? microwave time" as the default for everyone I knew, not some kind of hack.

Microwaves are generally used to reheat food that was cooked via the oven/stove earlier more often than they are to perform the initial cooking.

the holy poopacy posted:

You can cook Eggos in the microwave and pop tarts are better cold anyhow. Toasters are for toast.

When you say "cold," do you mean room temperature from the foil, or frozen in the freezer to become hard?

Dr. Stab posted:

I have never in my life felt the need to microwave water. Is this like a dorm room hack thing?

Here's my hot appliance take: I don't really have a need for a toaster. Everyone seems to have one, but, like, toast isn't a big part of my diet. I guess I'm just supposed to have one in case I want to get some eggos or pop tarts or something?

Dorm room/office kitchenette/back office at a warehouse/summer camp/school cafeteria/etc. Anywhere you might not have the space for specialized devices such as an electric kettle or not in possession of any of your own stuff but still get some time to eat your lunch so you can make cup o' noodle or what have you.

Toasters can also be used for bagels, english muffins, and other baked goods if frozen crap like eggo isn't part of your diet so many people like them, but if you don't enjoy things like that either, then it's a perfectly normal sacrifice to make to have more counter space.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Yeah, I don't see the point of a toaster, it's also a mess to clean.

You just pull out the crumb tray and dump it in the sink every few weeks/months depending on how often you use it and then wipe it with a damp cloth and dry it. What's the difficult part?

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:05

Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

Captain Hygiene posted:

As far as I'm aware, it's just a common thing in the US to have a microwave and a stove as the most common cooking tools, and the microwave is just faster for that most of the time. Like, growing up, it was just "need to heat water? microwave time" as the default for everyone I knew, not some kind of hack.

For a long time it was just more common to have a water kettle for the stove.

Electric kettles in the US (oh my, we're doing this again) can pull about 1500 watts as opposed to 2800 watts in the UK due to in-house distributions differences. To be clear, it's not that you have "more electrical power" in the UK its that the US has chosen by ancient code to run lower voltage and amperage to regular outlets. Only machine specific outlets (electric stove, electric dryer, other big power users) get all the angry pixies piped to them. So this means our electric kettles take about twice as long to heat water. Which I don't find to be a huge burden.........I don't get the issue. I've had an electric kettle for a very long time and I love it.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:06

Dr. Stab: Sep 12, 2010; 👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

But, why then is the "no kettles" thing just in america and not the rest of the 120v world?

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Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

Dr. Stab posted:

But, why then is the "no kettles" thing just in america and not the rest of the 120v world?

I mean, "no kettles" is not a US thing. But also if we're talking available power at a common outlet it's not just about voltage. In the US standard outlets are 120v at 15 or 20 amps. You can absolutely do 40 amps on 120v. Which would be 20 amps on 240v. But now you're into standards, wire sizes, codes, etc. Some of this is practical, some of this is inertia, some of this is inertia in safety code.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:14

wizardofloneliness: Dec 30, 2008

Yeah, it's slower in the US compared to the UK, but it still only takes like maybe two minutes, which is still way faster than heating it on a stove. I won't acknowledge heating water in the microwave. I did that every now and then before I had an electric kettle and it's just not right.

Electric kettle usage is definitely my favorite derail here. I forget how many times it's come around.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:16

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

AITA for telling my SO that I was offended by what I perceived to be an insult? Alternatively, AITA for perceiving it as an insult in the first place?

quote:

Me: Boiling water for tea. Husband: “Why aren’t you using the electric kettle?” Me: “I found a tiny fly in it so I’m back to boiling water.” Husband: “Yeah you have to clean things once in awhile.” Me: “It was clean when I found the bug. I realized the spout is always open so bugs can fly in anytime. But I resent you using this as an opportunity to criticize me.” Husband: “Oh come on. That wasn’t a criticism. You are overly sensitive and you always think everything is a criticism when it’s not.” Me: “It seemed critical to me. At the very least it was an assumption and I’m just letting you know how I feel.”

Side note: My kids and I were having the tea party in our yard. I went inside without them so no kids witnessed this interaction. I’m also fairly sure everything I said was in a calm tone because I remained in tea-party-fake-British-accent the whole time. He did not characterize his comment as a criticism but it definitely wasn’t a joke it was a serious comment.

This was a very minor incident and I realize that, but we’ve been married a long time and this type of thing has been a frequent occurrence. I feel like an rear end in a top hat for asking but I need neutral opinions. At this point I’m having a hard time trusting myself but his dismissal isn’t sitting right with me either. So…

Am I the rear end in a top hat for saying that I didn’t appreciate the criticism and/or am I the rear end in a top hat for even thinking it was criticism in the first place?

Basically what I'm saying is that microwave use prevents both tiny fly contamination and fake British accents

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:21

Shwoo: Jul 21, 2011

I think the difference between kettles as default kitchen equipment and kettles as specialised kitchen equipment is just cultural, though the voltage probably also plays into it a little.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:26

Dr. Stab: Sep 12, 2010; 👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

Motronic posted:

I mean, "no kettles" is not a US thing. But also if we're talking available power at a common outlet it's not just about voltage. In the US standard outlets are 120v at 15 or 20 amps. You can absolutely do 40 amps on 120v. Which would be 20 amps on 240v. But now you're into standards, wire sizes, codes, etc. Some of this is practical, some of this is inertia, some of this is inertia in safety code.

Canada is on the same grid as America with the exact same power standards, and nearly every home has a kettle.

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MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

wizardofloneliness posted:

Yeah, it's slower in the US compared to the UK, but it still only takes like maybe two minutes, which is still way faster than heating it on a stove. I won't acknowledge heating water in the microwave. I did that every now and then before I had an electric kettle and it's just not right.

Electric kettle usage is definitely my favorite derail here. I forget how many times it's come around.

It�s not way faster actually.

I got an electric kettle and it only beats my gas stove by 20 seconds at best. I tested it myself because it didn�t seem like the kettle was dramatically faster and it�s not.

It�s handy to have but my stove kettle works just as well.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:31

Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

Dr. Stab posted:

Canada is on the same grid as America with the exact same power standards, and nearly every home has a kettle.

Just to make sure what I said wasn't misinterpreted: I don't think that voltage/power at outlets makes for no electric kettles, as an electric kettle owner with 120v outlets. It's definitely more like:

Shwoo posted:

I think the difference between kettles as default kitchen equipment and kettles as specialised kitchen equipment is just cultural, though the voltage probably also plays into it a little.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:33

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

The thing about the electric kettle is that it automatically stops when the water's boiled, as opposed to what happens when you put it on the stove.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:33

MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

The whistle blows and you know it�s done.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:36

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

MarcusSA posted:

The whistle blows and you know it�s done.

And you have to be sure to turn it off yourself. Unlike the electric kettle, which turns off automatically, without your intervention.

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Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

Absurd Alhazred posted:

And you have to be sure to turn it off yourself. Unlike the electric kettle, which turns off automatically, without your intervention.

microwave turns off by itself too

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:38

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Foo Diddley posted:

microwave turns off by itself too

They turn off at some arbitrary time, not when the water boils.

Like, give it up, USAilures, the electric kettle is just the superior way of boiling water. It's energy efficient, it's quick, and it turns itself off exactly when it's done.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:39

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

My superior electric kettle sits there idling at boiling point as long as I'm too lazy to turn it off :911:

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:40

Breetai: Nov 6, 2005; 🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

Beats loving about with a cooking thermometer.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:42

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Captain Hygiene posted:

My superior electric kettle sits there idling at boiling point as long as I'm too lazy to turn it off

That's pretty good when you're Shomer Shabbos, too.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:43

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

just turn the hot water heater up to 99C or so

just be careful taking showers

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:54

wizardofloneliness: Dec 30, 2008

AITA for telling him to move back to the pig pen he came from?

quote:

I hit a breaking point last night. My fiance comes from filth. His whole family is absolutely disgusting in a sense of they can be surrounded by garbage and still think it's normal. His family home, which has been given to his sister, has an entire garage that is currently being used as a dumpster and every single corner of her home is packed up tighter than a bulls rear end with nothing but clutter/dog hair/dead mice. You cannot see the floors in any of the 8 rooms this home has. Its not a hoarding issue. It's a "I dont want to clean" issue. So this is what he is used to. I claim that I have been bullshitted because when my fiance and I got in to a place, he was exhibiting signs of a clean person. As in always cleaned up after himself and our home NEVER looked even remotely close to that of his family home and he did help me clean frequently. Like I said, I have now hit a breaking point and I'm pretty certain he only did this to make me think he was better than that.

In the past year he has done the dishes twice. He has cleaned once. If he cooks, which is incredibly rare, he leaves everything he uses out on the table (full milk jugs, butter, cheese, etc) and dirties every pan in the house. I have brought it up several times. I'm not a loving maid. I shouldn't have to put things away that he fails to put away after using. Even if he makes himself cereal he will still leave both the cereal and the milk on the counter versus walk 5 steps to put it away. He will take his dirty clothes off and kick him over by our dresser versus put them in the camper behind him. He will leave his dirty clothes in the bathroom for weeks until I finally cave and do the cleaning myself. When I mention how trashed the house is, he says it isnt even that bad. When I get pissed and start rage cleaning, he makes comments asking me to calm down. OTHER THAN THIS THE MAN IS GREAT. Treats me great, loves me unconditionally.

So last night I woke up around 1am and found milk on the counter again. At this point it was warm so I assume it had been there for hours. I lost it. I was so tired of telling him to pick up after himself that I told him to go move back in to the pig pen that he came from. It wasnt just the milk. It was also all of his clothing bags and travel bags that were strewn all over the kitchen, as well as finding the dog had been left out of the kennel and got in to the garbage AND the cat had dragged his dirty clothing from the bathroom in to her liter box. He says I'm acting irrationally and he simply "forgets" because he has ADHD (undiagnosed so theres that). AITA?

# ? Mar 21, 2022 02:57

pentyne: Nov 7, 2012

Electrical kettles are also good for anyone who's so brain fogged that they constantly forget they turn the stove on and leave the room.

Or really anyone who's even done it once. The choice is between "maybe burn the house down" and "forgot and the water starts slowly cooling back down".

Electric kettles can get as cheap as $5 so there's really no excuse.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 03:00

Invisible Clergy: Sep 25, 2015; "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

wizardofloneliness posted:

AITA for telling him to move back to the pig pen he came from?

r/relationships: OTHER THAN THIS THE MAN IS GREAT.

AITA For taking a poop in my own bathroom

quote:

edit: you guys need to chill, I just had to use the bathroom, apparently you have never actually needed to go really bad and it shows

Hey guys, new to the subreddit but a friend of mine told me to share my story.

Anyway, my family was having plumbing issues, so my Mother's boyfriend and his brother ended up ripping up the toilet one day, exposing the drainage pipe underneath. They had to leave for a while to go get some more tools, so for the time being the bathroom was empty, with just the pipe sticking out of the ground.

Lo and behold, I really need to go to the bathroom while they are gone. I have a few bathrooms in the house, but they are usually occupied, and this one was the closest, so I felt like I had to figure something out. I closed the door, and just positioned myself over the pipe, and took a poo poo, clean and simple. The pipe is quite wide, so I was able to position well over it, not making a mess anywhere else. I clean myself up, use the shower to clean my privates, and exit the bathroom. My little brother comes into the picture here, and sees I used the pipe while the boyfriend is crew is gone. He doesn't mention it to me, but in the coming hours my Mom's boyfriend and his brother are banging on my door, screaming at me. They had apparently had to do some kind of plunging, and a massive amount of sewer and poo poo came back up the pipe, all over their faces. After seeing this, my little brother informed them I had poo poo down the pipe, despite the fact there was absolutely zero evidence of this remaining. I cleaned the pipe perfectly, and made sure everything looked exactly as they had left it.

I stuck to my guns and told them I had to seriously go, and didn't know it would come back up the pipe under any condition. Am I actually the rear end in a top hat for just using the toilet?!

# ? Mar 21, 2022 03:10

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

Electric kettles are unitaskers and are banned.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 03:13

Batterypowered7: Aug 8, 2009; The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

carry on then posted:

Electric kettles are unitaskers and are banned.

Settle down Alton Brown.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 03:13

Sodium Chloride: Jan 1, 2008

This thread really loves electric kettles :h:

wizardofloneliness posted:

AITA for telling him to move back to the pig pen he came from?

I don't know how the op could tolerate him for that long even if he is "great."

# ? Mar 21, 2022 03:14

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

Invisible Clergy posted:

r/relationships: OTHER THAN THIS THE MAN IS GREAT.

There's never been a better summary

Also lol at this one popping up between me reading that and quoting it

quote:

AITA For taking a poop in my own bathroom

# ? Mar 21, 2022 03:15

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Is it weird for me (F21) to ask how an old fling (M21) is doing? Or ask him what exactly is going on?

quote:

Long story short, I was in California for a winter break and met this guy off bumble who I unexpectedly really hit it off with and we ended up hooking up, doing day trips to the city, eating lunches together, etc. and I met most of his friend group as well who are really sweet and friendly people.

Things got a little weird and I held back a lot because we both knew we had to part ways bc I don�t go to school on the west coast, but at the same time we had been emotionally intimate with one another and talked a lot about life and old crushes/relationships and our futures and school and everything. We communicated that we would just let things go with the flow, but he had said what we had in a month was special, and he shared a lot with me- he often wondered what my friends thought of him, or he would always ask what I wanted to do and was incredibly respectful. He also asked if I would miss him, etc. and the feeling was mutual- we communicated a lot. We agreed that we were not looking for a serious relationship given that I was leaving, but also admitted our bond was deeper than casual.

I don�t have good experiences with relationships in the past and have been in therapy for a year, so being in something this healthy for the first time really impacted me and gave me a lot of hope for relationships in general. When I left two months ago I didn�t expect to still be talking to him after, but he still messages me and updates me on little things he does and I do the same. We facetimed on Valentine�s Day and watched TV and played wordle, and he said he would update me and lmk when he�s on the east coast. I think I was just so scared of being vulnerable and �catching feelings� but I�m pretty sure I did lol even though it�s completely normal. I�m starting to get attached to him and notice when we don�t talk, since we do speak pretty often for two people who�ve known each other for a month and live on opposite sides of the country. Just this weekend we talked a little about his upcoming spring break plans, and I�m just scared in my brain I�m overestimating my importance to him.

I haven�t really thought about our dynamic until now, and I feel like I�m definitely overthinking this lol. If somebody could give me some perspective or advice, I would really appreciate it!

TLDR: never really stopped talking to an old holiday fling, confused about the state of things even though ik it�s �casual�. Help

Mostly harmless, just laughing at "old flame" for a fling that was a couple of months ago.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 03:20

Invisible Clergy: Sep 25, 2015; "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

Sodium Chloride posted:

This thread really loves electric kettles

I don't know how the op could tolerate him for that long even if he is "great."

The thread, like anywhere on the internet, will love anything if it provides an opportunity to poo poo on Americans.

In my experience, Americans don't dislike electric kettles or prefer stove/microwave to heat water. Everyone I've ever mentioned it to has simply never heard of an electric kettle before so hasn't used it for that reason. When I give them one, they love it.

She tolerates him for that long because like all women in r/relationshipland, she has negative standards that her crusty-assed dead mouse hoarding filth golem fiance easily skips over and coasts off of sunk cost fallacy. Besides, she couldn't possibly just leave him without collecting proper documentation of appropriate violations to present in relationship court (which are always magically something worse than what the partner is actually doing). That would be mean!

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Metaline: Aug 20, 2003

pentyne posted:

Electrical kettles are also good for anyone who's so brain fogged that they constantly forget they turn the stove on and leave the room.

Or really anyone who's even done it once. The choice is between "maybe burn the house down" and "forgot and the water starts slowly cooling back down".

Electric kettles can get as cheap as $5 so there's really no excuse.

A couple of years ago, my half-asleep fiancé put the electric kettle on the stovetop, then went to the bathroom. The fire only destroyed the kettle, thankfully. I still find little sooty pieces of burnt plastic in nooks and crannies.

# ? Mar 21, 2022 03:28

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