rainrain@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours ago"A watched pot never boils" is actually advice for keeping your pot from boiling. Because a soup boiled is a soup spoiled.message-squaremessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1142arrow-down113
arrow-up1129arrow-down1message-square"A watched pot never boils" is actually advice for keeping your pot from boiling. Because a soup boiled is a soup spoiled.rainrain@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squarefaythofdragons@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 hours agoThat’s probably why it’s stuck around now that we don’t have wood fired stoves, but lifting a lid to check on a pot really does cause heat loss and makes it take longer to boil.
minus-squareastrsk@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·13 hours agoIt will still boil and the difference is single digit minutes at most.
That’s probably why it’s stuck around now that we don’t have wood fired stoves, but lifting a lid to check on a pot really does cause heat loss and makes it take longer to boil.
It will still boil and the difference is single digit minutes at most.