On Friday, 23 March 2018 18:05:55 UTC, Johnny B Good wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:53:16 +0000, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:23:19 +0000, GB wrote:

One handle is broken on our large saucepan, so I made a rather crude
wooden handle and glued it to the lugs. Only then did my son tell me
that this is the saucepan that goes in the oven, for stews.

I stuck it in the oven at 150C for a few hours, and quite a bit of resin
has oozed out of the wood, but the wood isn't burning.

I've just turned it up to 180C, and I'll keep an eye on it.

Any idea how hot it can go before it chars or bursts into flames? I'm
told that sometimes stews go up to 200C.

Table 1 on this pdf suggests 200C is getting pretty close to ignition
https://bit.ly/2GhEeF4 and scroll down

Ignition temperature for cellulose based reading matter, according to
Ray Bradbury and my 8 digit calculator, corresponds to a temperature of
232.77777 deg C. :-)

Wood contains resin which is much more flashpointy. That's removed in papermaking.


NT