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rainrain@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

"A watched pot never boils" is actually advice for keeping your pot from boiling. Because a soup boiled is a soup spoiled.

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"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 · 7 days ago
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  • Mac@mander.xyz
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    Not many people know this but this is actually because the boiling point of the pot material is well above the capability of a cooking oven.

    The more you know 🌈⭐

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    If you mean keeping your soup at a boil is bad then sure. But I always bring it to a boil before turning it down to a simmer

    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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      But have you tried not? 🧐

      • Goretantath@lemm.ee
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        Rather kill off anything that takes that high enough of heat than risk it.

      • SeekPie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me
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        Why? Is it bad or smth?

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    This is why you can’t boil the ocean. Someone somewhere is always looking at it.

    • Zorque@lemmy.world
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      Global warming: Hold my CO2…

      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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        Just increase the temperature until everyone is too busy being dead. Then, you’re free to boil the ocean as much as you like.

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    Its a thing moms say to keep kids from asking “is it done yet?” since if the kid does something else, time passes faster for them. I put a pot of water on and stared at it just to prove my mom wrong since i was sick of hearing it, but she was saying it because the kitchen was small and i’d get in the way when cooking my food.

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      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.

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        It will still boil and the difference is single digit minutes at most.

  • rainrain@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    It’s one of those memes that got ironically reversed. And then the ironic version got remembered by everybody and the original got forgotten.

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      Irony is eating the world.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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      What is it supposed to say?

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        deleted by creator

        • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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          I choose to believe it’s this one.

      • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        A watched pot always boils?

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    Like ‘You can’t eat your cake and have it, too’ became a less sensible version.

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    Depends on the soup. Tinned soup from some manufacturer, maybe. My mum’s chicken soup? Boil that thing gently for hours and your tongue will love you for a week.

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    I don’t make a lot of soup but I also don’t believe that a soup that was boiled for a brief period of time is necessarily spoiled. In the times that I have made soup, I usually have preferred to see it boil briefly before turning down the heat, and then consuming it shortly after.

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