• rtxn@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    If you have a freeze dryer, you can take it one step further by making dehydrated instant water: carefully transfer the boiling water into the trays, then run the freeze dryer until all of the water has evaporated. Whatever is left is compact and easy to store, with a practically infinite shelf life. To turn it back into water, simply add water and stir thoroughly.

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    My mom wrote this post. She once tried to cut down on pasta prep time by putting it in the water before she left for an 8 hour shift. She boils hotdogs because “It’s faster.” Just boils. She burned every pancake she ever made because she thinks max heat cooks it faster and years of failure hasn’t changed her opinion. She tried to make chicken parmigiana in the microwave, without the parmesan, and the chicken was frozen. She makes kraft dinner with only margarine and won’t eat anything blue.

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      You’re referring to the reverse mpemba effect? The mpemba effect is already controversial, and the reverse effect is just theoretical from what i understand, being either too weak to be measured or just not real

      It also does not require the water to have been boiled prior, and if the water is frozen it would be slower than liquid water regardless

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        No, I’m referring to the tceffe abmepm. The water molecules “remember what it “felt like”” to be boiling so they are faster to return to that state the second time. It is really real.

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          That can’t be true, water molecules are really tiny you know, and therefore their brains are naturally also really tiny,
          and we all know that what little brainpower and memory they have is focused on keeping track of how many times that particular water molecule has been part of someones urine

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            Intelligence isn’t directly correlated with brain size, but rather the size of the brain relative to the size of the thing it’s in. For all we know, water is 99% brain, making it far more intelligent than humans.

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    I’ve never tried it but I’ve read that if you boil water and then freeze it you can make clear ice cubes instead of foggy. Just to make it pretty I guess.