This discussion points out that a watched pot DOES boil.
Oh, the water may regularly boil and evaporate away, but it
is certainly rare that the pot boils.

Doug Kanter wrote in message
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Unless you're making blackened fish, cajun style, or getting ready to boil
a
pot of water, there's never a reason to have a burner all the way to
"high".

"Jason" wrote in message
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Electric stove...empty pan on wrong coil.



On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:41:31 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

Empty pan? Electric stove?

"Jason" wrote in message
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Hello,

Not sure what to do here. But had a pan on the stove this afternoon,
turned on the burner, noticed a weird smell lifted up the pan and
melted metal(liquid metal)from the bottom of the pan fell off and on
to the top of my stove. It was so hot that it burnt though the finish
on the top of the stove(paint or whatever they use). Question...is
there anyway to get it refinished or to buy a new top for one of
these, I have never seen anything like this. Not sure if its a stove
or a pan malfunction. Lucky I was there when it happened or it may
have started a fire.