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Nov. 25th, 2022
I haven't been feeling too hot today, Russet offered to fix me some food. It didn't turn out how she wanted it to be, but it still tasted fine. And I noticed a hot smell....
I figured it was the skillet cooling down, but the smell didn't go away. Finally I go and check, and she'd failed to turn the burner off! She'd put the trivet under the skillet, but it still got bloody hot. I pulled the pan off, left the trivet there, and decided to build a heat-sink!
I took a pan and put a couple of inches of water in it, and put it on top of the trivet as an experiment. I have a Thermapen insta-read thermometer. VERY accurate, and as I said, insta-read. Fairly quickly it went from 64 to 65, then 66 degrees! Clearly putting a heat sink on the trivet to draw away some of that thermal energy to cool things down was a good idea.
I went back to doing things at the table on my laptop. A bit later, maybe 10-15 minutes, I went back to see how much the temperature had risen. First clue: bubbles across the bottom of the pan, just like building to a low simmer! Thermometer read 84 degrees! I don't think it'll get higher than that.
I should've grabbed my IR thermometer and checked the pan, I just put it on top of the stove and left it alone. I hope it wasn't damaged as it's a non-stick.
If I'd checked the kitchen as soon as I smelt that hot smell, could've avoided a lot of trouble and potential damage to that skillet. Oh, well. I need to trust my nose more.
I figured it was the skillet cooling down, but the smell didn't go away. Finally I go and check, and she'd failed to turn the burner off! She'd put the trivet under the skillet, but it still got bloody hot. I pulled the pan off, left the trivet there, and decided to build a heat-sink!
I took a pan and put a couple of inches of water in it, and put it on top of the trivet as an experiment. I have a Thermapen insta-read thermometer. VERY accurate, and as I said, insta-read. Fairly quickly it went from 64 to 65, then 66 degrees! Clearly putting a heat sink on the trivet to draw away some of that thermal energy to cool things down was a good idea.
I went back to doing things at the table on my laptop. A bit later, maybe 10-15 minutes, I went back to see how much the temperature had risen. First clue: bubbles across the bottom of the pan, just like building to a low simmer! Thermometer read 84 degrees! I don't think it'll get higher than that.
I should've grabbed my IR thermometer and checked the pan, I just put it on top of the stove and left it alone. I hope it wasn't damaged as it's a non-stick.
If I'd checked the kitchen as soon as I smelt that hot smell, could've avoided a lot of trouble and potential damage to that skillet. Oh, well. I need to trust my nose more.