"Pringles CheezUms" > wrote in message
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>I got a new stock pot and tried it out today, making spaghetti.
> It behaved differently than my old one and I thot I'd check here to see
> if it's normal.
> It's a 12-qt stainless steel and aluminum sandwich (at least on the
> bottom.) That's bigger than my old one which was only around 8 qt I'd
> guess, and the old one was also only single sheet of metal. Not aluminum
> tho, too heavy for that.
> The problem is it never would get to a rolling boil tonite. It came
> close and have big bubbles coming up the middle of the water but never
> quite make it to rolling like the old one. There was more water in it,
> but I let it go for what seemed like plenty of time to get it there.
> It cooked the spaghetti, but took longer than my old one.
>
> What I want to know is that normal for a large pot of this type?
>
>
What kind of cooktop are you heating on? How wide are the heating elements?
How wide is your stockpot?

Kent