Unmitigated food disaster

I was taught at a very early age that heating a beaker (borosilicate glass) with the aid of a Bunsen burner needed a spreader under it to diffuse the heat and spread it over a larger area . The spreader, as most of you probably know was a 6ins square of wire mesh with a round asbestos patch in the centre. this prevented the flame ( very high temp) impinging directly as a point source on the relatively cold bottom of the beaker with the obvious consequences. Don

Wire wool puts fine scratches on the surface of stainless steel. If you clean the pan with sodium hyroxide it does not damage the surface and it removes burnt material of all sorts, including porrage.

Do pay attention at the back.

If the pot boiled dry, how was it the pot's fault?

I checked. There's a big pot with tab handles (or whatever you call the little ones, a medium-size pot with a long handle, and a small pot with a long handle. All of the pots have lids. They were last used about 30 years ago. Too bad the reviews are so scathing. They don't sound worth saving.

They are horrid. I had a set of them. I believe they were called "Corningware Visions" Never hated pots as much as I hated them.

IME the glass had so much thermal inertial that they were uncontrollable

- took forever to heat up and then retained it for far too long after turning the heat off. Like other posters, I found they burnt with regularity and were very hard to clean afterwards.

Nick

No. Caustic not only doesn't remove burnt carbohydate material, it also seems to discolour stainless steel. Although less then hitting it with water when its very hot, does.

I use caustic on dried fats, but not on carbon deposits. Porridge does NOT come off with caustic. Nor does caramelised fruit or sugars..

As far as fine scratches go sod it. Can polish those out with T-cut and a mop if you give a s*it.

Yes it does.

Yes it does.