Have you ever heard that "A watched kettle never boils"? (By the way, it is an anagram which gives you: "Set to brew? Leave kitchen, lad!")

Anyway, a watched kettle never boils?

Wrong.

I've just proven that it does.

Just doing my share to further science. Now that my work here is done, I figure it's just a small step to coming up with a unified field theory.

 

Your next assignment, in botany: "A rolling stone gathers no moss."

Get to it, lad!

 

You can't squeeze blood from a turnip...


Go, go, go amatuer myth buster...

 

I had one before I read JS2003 and 98Lariet's post.

 

He's a MYTHBUSTER!

 

that had to be fun as watching paint dry

 

A kettle will boil if the metal is heated up enough that it melts. Then a kettle will boil. I think you may be referring to the water inside the kettle though, in which case a kettle never boils.

 

OMG ! ! !

That's sum funny chit right thar

 

Unless of course I was referring to both. For example I could be in the lab, applying heat to a kettle which contains water, and slowly increasing the temperature of the heat with the intention of eventually melting the kettle. As the heat increases, the water boils then eventually the kettle itself boils and melts, or melts and boils (I guess it depends the melting point, in terms of temperature, that the material the kettle is made of is). In which case, the water AND the kettle would both boil . . . so I guess that makes your statement that the "kettle never boils" incorrect.

Never assume.

 

You used that divine proportions calculation thingy to figure all that out. Right?

J/K

 

I have a question. . .maybe I should dig up the Ask Kobi thread. . .if a rolling stone gathers no moss, how is it that a spinning ceiling fan gathers every cobweb within a 50 mile radius??

I just cleaned mine after running them, literally, all winter and they were extremely hairy.

 

Actually, that is caused from static in the air. All the fuzz and lint that builds up on a ceiling fan from spinning is caused from static the fan collect from the spinning motion. The amount of static influences the speed at which the fuzzy stuff collects to the blades.


And, for Kobi. I don't know of a metal that has a boiling point equal to water. So by the time the kettle, and the metal of which it is made start to boil, the water would be long gone. So you could not have the water and kettle boil simultaneously.


I am working on proving a myth also. That a fool and his money are soon parted. And I am not the fool.


Sled...

 

Sled, thanks for answering the static build-up on fan blades. Saves me time.

Also, I never said they would boil simultaneously, I just said they both would boil. First the water, then the kettle.

K-

 

Hmmm, how do I antistatic my fan blades, think if I rub them with a dryer sheet they'll become static free??

I don't consider myself a fool either but my money sure parts in a big hurry!

 

No problem Kobi.
True, you did not state that, but it did give the impression that that is what you were implying. Just looking for verification.

Sled...