On 2014-02-25 15:52:51 +0000, barbie gee said:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, sf wrote:
>
>>
>> How to combine pasta with sauce... and you know which numbskull this
>> is posted for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBpbWhfsBxw
>
> Maybe we need to start them off with Boiling Water:
>
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BSbfJMtDt4>

First: I HAD that faucet until replaced last week. It totally sucked.

Second: I have heard many times in life that cold water boils faster
than warm water. I don't know where I heard it first, but from the
time I was in my teens and beginning to do some cooking I thought about
it, rejected it and moved on with my life.

35 years later I heard Gordo tell a lackey in Hell's Kitchen to restart
a dish that demanded boiling water, likely pasta. Someone noted the
lackey pulling cold water and Gordo asked why. They proffered the
age-old snipe-hunting mythology: Cold water boils faster and his
incredulity knew only the limits of his rage du jour.

I have no idea how that bullshit got started but was delighted to find
someone else had heard it. But was also saddened that they didn't use
elementary-school physics to override it.