rainrain@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-square16fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down113
arrow-up1106arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squarefaythofdragons@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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.
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.