Thursday 26 March 2020

thermodynamics - Is it possible to "cook" pasta at room temperature with low enough pressure?


It is known fact, that boiling point of water decreases by decreasing of pressure. So there is a pressure at which water boils at room temperature. Would it be possible to cook e.g. pasta at room temperature in vacuum chamber with low enough pressure?


Or "magic" of cooking pasta is not in boiling and we would be able to cook pasta at 100°C without boiling water (at high pressure)?



Answer



No. Boiling itself doesn't mean that the water will cook anything. If you have boiling water at 30°C you could touch it (if we forget that it's at really low pressure) and nothing would happen. Boiling is not what cooks, but temperature.


In fact, if you want to purify water at high altitudes, you need to boil water for a longer time because it will be at a lower temperature.


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