On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:19:14 -0700, Arri London >
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>Pringles CheezUms wrote:
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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.
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>> What I want to know is that normal for a large pot of this type?
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>Doesn't sound right. Given enough heat, the water should have come to a
>rolling boil eventually. Next time wait for it to come to the proper
>boil, even if it takes longer.

Without a high enough BTU rating NEVER happen.