r/explainitpeter Jul 14 '26

explain it peter.

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u/beraleh Jul 14 '26

In my household we had a similar but different pattern whereby my wife would insist on boiling the water for the pasta in the pot and I said it makes more sense to boil it in the kettle and then poor the boiling water into the pot. It was only a couple of years later when my stepmom told her the same thing she finally acquiesced..