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Re:Milk Watcher by ajb on Sunday May 26, 2024 @06:21PM (#40485947)
Not really, since milk contains water the max temperature you can reach is 100 degrees (given it has a path to atmospheric pressure). So the bottom can only burn if all the water boils off.
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Re:Milk Watcher by BugsJustFindMe on Sunday May 26, 2024 @06:57PM (#40486157)
"contains water" is very obviously insufficient for this to be anywhere close to true.
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Re:Milk Watcher by ajb on Sunday May 26, 2024 @08:13PM (#40486479)
Milk is mainly water as I'm sure you know. If you think it's useful to know what mixtures won't be held to 100 degrees, perhaps you could contribute some information to that effect - as opposed to just snark
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Re:Milk Watcher by agos on Monday May 27, 2024 @06:13AM (#40489354)
you should really put your theory to test
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Re:Milk Watcher by smoothbran on Sunday May 26, 2024 @09:38PM (#40486891)
A beautiful demonstration of the difference between theory and practice.
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Re:Milk Watcher by bmacho on Monday May 27, 2024 @01:26AM (#40487829)
Sounds interesting! I wonder what happens, when milk gets burned!

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I gave it some thought, and a possible explanation is that water evaporates from the bottom of the pot, it leaves some waterless milk there, and that burns.

But this assumes that the inside of the pot can be hotter than 100°C, I wonder if that's true, or milk keeps it ~100°C (water is very good at transferring heat after all).

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Re:Milk Watcher by krzat on Monday May 27, 2024 @04:50AM (#40488934)
Put some milk on high and see if your theory holds true.
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