If the water is not hot enough, or if too little water is used, the temperature drops when the pasta is added and the cooking becomes uneven: some parts may become too soft while others remain hard.

If your cobs never turn out as sweet and juicy as you like, it might be because you're cooking them in plain water. Try ...

To reach an unsafe lead concentration (0.01mg per liter, according to Australian guidelines) in a cup of water, you'd need to boil down roughly 20 liters of tap water to just that cup of 200ml.

To reach an unsafe lead concentration (0.01mg per litre, according to Australian guidelines) in a cup of water, you’d need to boil down roughly 20 litres of tap water to just that cup of 200ml.