DAMN I'm dumb and lucky, or, molten aluminum

[eub]

If you leave an aluminum-clad pot on a hot electric-stove burner after the water in it boils dry, the pot may melt.

Right now I have a huge amount of respect for the safety factors built into consumer products that allow the burner cup to catch the dripping aluminum rather than letting it go anyplace whose ignition point might be less than 1200 °F. Tomorrow I'll deal with chiseling(?) the aluminum globs off the burner spiral, and perhaps getting the ingot out as a "YOU DUMBASS" memento.

Unsettling cracking noises can be heard as the ingot cools in its cup.

Comments

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

So that's why Calphalon includes the warnings not to leave it on the burner empty. Thank you for being an example to all of us.

And yeah, mad props to all the people responsible for that not turning into a conflagration.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Always glad to be an ominous warning.