• shrugs@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Tbh, I don’t get it. How can a coffee, that can be max 100°C cause such burns? I would have never believed hot/boiling water is that dangerous, without that story.

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      4 months ago

      That’s literally a temperature you would cook meat with

      What do you think people are made of?

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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        4 months ago

        TIL, videos saying “cook meat at 180°” actually meant 180°F and not 180°C.

        Now I have to check what my induction stove means when it reads 180 in deep frying mode.

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          4 months ago

          Afaik it means °C usually, but when boiling meat it will be cooked at 100°C give or take.

          But since well done steak is supposed to be 71°C, everything hotter than that would sooner or later cook the meat.

          • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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            4 months ago

            Considering that Google says 350°F - 375°F for deep frying and that I am in a °C country, I would lean more this way.

            Of course, I have never cooked meat and have no idea what deep frying meat at 180°C would do.

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          4 months ago

          Hot air/gas, hot water/liquid, and a hot solid behaved very differently. The numbers depend a lot on what’s being measured. There’s also a big variable of time.

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      4 months ago

      Boiling water is extremely dangerous! Water at 140°F (60°C) will cause a serious burn in 3 seconds. Even water at 120°F (49°C) will cause a serious burn within 10 minutes. Source

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      4 months ago

      Well, scalding hot water, some of the hottest you are legally allowed to have set out of a water heater, is about 130 degrees F, or 54 degrees C. That will scald you in a few seconds.

      Her coffee was near double that. So, ice at 0, can burn you at 54, and then around 100 degrees… Yeah.

    • Avanera@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I mean, it’s easy to believe when you consider what might happen if you put your hand into a boiling pot of pasta, for example.