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

Comments

• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ✨

  source
• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

  source

  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But have you tried not? 🧐

    source

    • Goretantath@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      source
    • seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why? Is it bad or smth?

      source
• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

  source

  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Global warming: Hold my CO2…

    source

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

      source
• Goretantath@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

  source

  • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

    source
• rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

  source

  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Irony is eating the world.

    source
  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What is it supposed to say?

    source

    • rasbora@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A potted boil is never watched.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A watched pot always boils?

      source
• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

  source
• davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

  source
• frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

  source