To clarify, because I see confusion: pot vs pan
A pot has pot handles, usually small loops on either side.
A pan has one long handle like you see in the photo.
So, this is not a small pot, this is a tall pan.
Specifically, this is usually called a sauce pan.
I did this once back in 8th grade after school one day, circa '92-ish. I was boiling water to make some box mac-n-cheese. Decided to go sit on the couch while I waited for the water to boil. Ended up crashing out on the couch and woke up to the smoke alarm going off after the water had boiled off and melted the pot similar to the picture.
I don’t understand how this could happen unless that pot is somehow plastic? Maybe 3D printed?
This is a ‘fun’ experiment - you can boil water in a fire using a plastic bottle.
The water absorbs all the energy and prevents the container from melting (same principle).It’s aluminum, and I have seen it first hand. My brother is not attentive… He almost burned the house down a couple times.
Those coil heaters put out a lot of heat at full power. Once all the water evaporates, that heat raises the temperature of the pan very quickly.
Don’t set a pot to boil and then go do something else in a different room, especially if that something else is playing age of empires.
Wouldn’t PLA catch fire with temps that high?
Yes.
I’m sorry but fucking what? Are the burners powered by Hell itself?
No, this is a known issue with coil elements.
This is why you don’t put empty pots on hot burners.
You are actually supposed to do that with triple ply steel though. You have to wait for it to heat up before you put your oil in, I forget the reason but it’s a big nono not to
That’s carbon steel and cast iron. Not aluminum pots.
Yeah, but a pot like this isn’t really intended for that purpose. You’re supposed to boil things in it, not try your damnedest to melt the pot.
Any steel. It’s not a big problem if you don’t food just sticks to the pan. Stainless steel pans are fine for making eggs as long as you preheat them, add oil then the eggs. Just about anything else is 0 problem.
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And this is single ply aluminium.
How is that even possible? The pan melted through the burners???
Pot either was empty or boil off the water. Element doesn’t have a safety and kept heating.
Eventually it’s gonna get to the plastic deformation stage.
Aluminium pan.
Aluminum melts at 1220°F (660°C).
Yes, but it softens and loses structural integrity at 150⁰ (300⁰ F).
Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams but it can soften them enough to collapse a building.
I don’t get it, what’s going on there?
Coil stove with no governors for temp that did not shut off when all the water boiled out thus deforming the aluminum pan
How?
Stove hot.
