Concern
Hot water
Hot water noun - A dangerous or distressing predicament.
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And all that's really needed for these meals is boiling hot water, so there's little concern with food contamination since you've already sterilized the water (hopefully).
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This often leads the heroes into hot water as this concern for others blinds him to complications in the Moral Dilemma of the week and leads him to advocate (or take it upon himself to do) "the right thing", regardless of how disastrous it would be in the short or long run.
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