Do you add pasta when the water is boiling or do you add pasta when it's 100°C? Because right now the boilng point of water for my location is 95.23°C. If I were to go skiing and wanted to boil some instant Ramen does it matter that the boiling point is 90.04°C in Leadville, CO? Or do I just put some water on the stove and wait till it boils?

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Coffee brewing, if I used boiling water my coffee would taste "burnt", but if I use 80°C or so of hot water, it tastes perfect.

[–] Sagifurius@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

huh. I use an expensive coffee maker precisely because it heats just shy of boiling, 202 degrees/like 94c, and it turns out way better coffee than the 85 ish degree machines.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends on your coffee, brewing method, etc

For coffee machines the temperature doesn't matter as much, but for pour over, and some other filter coffee methods it can be important to measure water temperature.

[–] Sagifurius@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It absolutely matters, it's why I paid so much. Walmart was selling a 50 dollar machine did the same thing, but the machines broke inside of 2 weeks. It made such good coffee I just returned it over and over till the customer service lady told me (she knew my name at this point) they'd returned what was left of the pallet. 300 dollar Zojirusha does the same thing and its a few years old now. Tried a few machines in between, just made mud it felt like, I've been ruined for crappy coffee tolerance.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Fair enough, there actually are a lot of terrible coffee machines available, especially in the US I guess. I am much more limited in what I can get, and so I end up having to do a lot more research (I do mean months of research), especially as the culture here is different for purchasing and returning things.

[–] Sagifurius@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not American, did some research, ordered it off Amazon.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

You mentioned Walmart, so I assumed that, sorry.