On 06 May 2006, The Natural wrote:

Raising the water to 60 C kills about 95% of the bugs in seconds.
Raising it to 100C kills about 99.999% in about 5 seconds, and
99.99999% in 5 minutes.



ISTR from my schooldays that altitude may mean that 100 C may not be
achievable.

Is this a factor at typical UK altitudes? (Without going hald way up
some buge hill.)