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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.

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨rainrain@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But have you tried not? 🧐

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      • Goretantath@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Rather kill off anything that takes that high enough of heat than risk it.

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      • seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why? Is it bad or smth?

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why you can’t boil the ocean. It’s so big someone somewhere is always looking at it.

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Global warming: Hold my CO2…

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      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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  • Goretantath@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Irony is eating the world.

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What is it supposed to say?

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      • rasbora@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A potted boil is never watched.

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      • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A watched pot always boils?

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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  • frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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