Except I made the mistake (once again) of pouring warm-to-hot water into the coffee maker. Coffee makers being designed at a specific boil rate---me, pouring in water that was already near the boil-to-fill minus drip capacity of the coffee maker.
I used to work on nuclear reactors...you'd think I'd have mastered this heat transfer stuff by now.
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Date: 2008-07-29 11:51 am (UTC)Except I made the mistake (once again) of pouring warm-to-hot water into the coffee maker. Coffee makers being designed at a specific boil rate---me, pouring in water that was already near the boil-to-fill minus drip capacity of the coffee maker.
I used to work on nuclear reactors...you'd think I'd have mastered this heat transfer stuff by now.
Not.so.much.
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