• Lumisal@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Funnily enough, this could technically work in a place with unsafe drinking water but with freezers.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      Depends on the water though since some may have chemical contamination that won’t go away by just boiling (I believe UNICEF has a section on their website about it).

      It’s why you are never ever supposed to drink storm water in any form (other than potentially rain collection)

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      But if they’re worried about contamination, they wouldn’t be storing boiling hot water in plastic bags. Microplastics ☠️

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        4 days ago

        Bacterial and viral contamination. They can’t do anything about potential chemical pollutants but they probably still wouldn’t want to potentially shit themselves to death.

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    5 days ago

    I know this is a joke because you just have to boil them again, but I like using this method so I don’t have to look up how much water I’m supposed to add to the pan every time I want to boil some pasta.

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      5 days ago

      Why are you measuring the water? Fill the pot, pour the pasta, cook the pasta, drain the water. Pasta may expand a bit, but otherwise you just need enough water to cover it while it’s cooking.

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      5 days ago

      Take notes, boys. THIS is proper trolling. It’s just believable enough while being absurd. It’s subtle. It’s ambiguous. It’s beautiful.

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        Maybe she’s born with it…

        Tbf the instructions on my pasta box include specific water measurements. Maybe the box is trolling me too.

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          4 days ago

          Exactly, my girl loves it when I surprise her with a home cooked meal but I can never remember if it says 6 or 8 cups of water on the Kraft Dinner box!

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            Yeah, this helped me, also. Though I like to cook a bunch of different things, to the point that I have three freezers to store all the various water volumes I need.

            I’ve also got a set of bowls to thaw the water in. Plus a bigger bowl to catch the overflow in case the bowl I use isn’t big enough to hold all that water when it thaws. I have no idea how this happens, but sometimes I put in a bag of frozen water and it fits in the bowl fine as ice but then doesn’t fit when it melts. But I at least solved the problem by placing a bigger bowl under it and, just in case that isn’t enough, I have a really big bowl under that.