Take that pot outside and get to work with a chisel and hammer. Keep it for the battle scars. :)

Why TF do so many people decide to cook, put something on the stove, the go have a nice sit down in the other room? You realize the saying “a watched pot never boils” isn’t true, right? There is no “set it and forget it” in cooking.

:/ ot OP, but I mean most of the stuff I cook doesn't need constant attention. Might as well sit down if I'm just going to spend 15 minutes staring into the abyss anyway.

It's not Hell's Kitchen. There isn't a string of things coming in and going out LOL.

One would think boiling beets didn’t need to be monitored either, but here we are. As someone who has worked in multiple kitchens, and cooks almost every night, I hope you never have to eat those words.

That was my favorite cigarette of the day, when prep is done and supper is cooking. I still miss that cigarette!

Yo it fkn happens. People have lives that can easily distract them like a single mom trying to cook while the kids are running around. "Why TF..." because everyone is human

> There is no “set it and forget it” in cooking.

There is, it's called a slow cooker.

Since you're cooking on electric already, get an induction furnace.

I was steaming beets and the water all boiled away. Ruined the basket and pan. House stunk for days.

I just made carnitas yesterday where they simmer for nearly 3 hours. I’m assuming you’re just ignorant

If only we had a pot that could compress slow cooking into an instant. Like a “Now Kettle” or “Snap Crock.”

In your defense, beets taste great

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Like a "Really Very Quick Cauldron"

Ron Popeil would definitely tell you otherwise.

So salty. Ofc you'd be a cook.

> I hope you never have to eat those words.

Thanks, I already paid my dues. Caught my burners on fire, heated the oil so high it smoked (wrong burner).

I'm glad you have the time, energy, training, and vigilance to stand over your stove until everything is cooked to immaculate perfection. I hope you never falter or make mistakes. ;)

True, but I meant on the stove, because that’s what the op was about.

Think positively, at least you didn't also burn the whole place down. I have seen that happen 1st hand. Source: Former Fireman.

And I was going to make this great Russian salad, too.

https://natashaskitchen.com/russian-vinaigrette-recipe-with-beets-and-sauerkraut/

Not a very good cook if you feel the need to stand over the pot the entire time instead of preparing the rest of the meal or anything, guessing nothing ever gets out at the same time in your kitchen, or half the food is cold

Oh, please. There is nothing about steaming beets that requires attending to UNLESS YOU FORGET THE WATER LIKE AN IDIOT.

I cook every day (I don't buy much prepared food and rarely eat out) and generally have a pretty good grip on what requires my attention and what doesn't.

I mean, putting something in the oven that's going to cook for a few hours is different than leaving something on the stove on high. Even if it's simmering on low, at least be in the same room so you can see or hear if something goes wrong.

Most all of my kitchens have been almost directly attached to my living rooms.

I cook most things on medium, and can hear if, like, a pot is spilling over or smth.

Should OP have put something on high? No. Ofc not. But sitting in the other room while something is boiling or something for a bit isn't the crime this guy is making it out to be.

It's not a crime, just not the safest or smartest thing to do.

I have ADD and am dumb.

Sous Vide begs to differ

🙄😒

What is the timer for then?

Is that you Dwight?

Lemons and lemonade, my friend. I look forward to your “forged in the kitchen” cooking/blacksmithing reality game show.

Yeah, I simply have to set the timer on my phone for the moment I want to check it, or I would be op on this thread.

Instant Pot

I think you might have a case of the whooshes

Exactly! You have to keep track somehow

Thats my point, you have to keep track somehow, you can’t just throw something on the stove and walk away.

The fact that you melted metal means you left that alone for way too long, and if you’d monitored it, or at least set a timer to check it after a few minutes as one should do for anything on the stove, you’d have noticed there was no water well before it got so bad.

It's a good day when you've still got a place to air out no matter how much smoke.

Why wouldn’t I prepare the rest of the meal? I said don’t go chill on the couch in another room when you’ve got something on the stove, but I guess you needed an easy way to try and insult me for no reason.

I figured that out right after I posted, but decided I would just leave it as evidence of my dummy-ness.

Did this with cauliflower about 8 years ago. I can still remember the smell and have hardly cooked cauliflower since!

Ever heard of braising?

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When I read the title I first thought it would be someone using a welder in the kitchen and the sparks ruining the floor or another furniture.

Omg… cooked cauliflower is not the best smell, I can’t imagine burned cauliflower 🤢

Ah, but he was definitely prepared to have the wooshes. He did instantly post his thoughts when he read your post.

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Ever hear of a timer? My point is you don’t leave it alone long enough to fuse metal without some way to keep track.

In 2004 or so when I was a college student living in a studio apartment, I was working on a project over the winter break and wanted to heat treat some small titanium parts. The college's metal shop was closed for the break, so I decided to do it with a torch in my kitchen. The ventilation was not adequate and I gave myself metal fume flu, making myself really sick for two days. 1/10 got real sick, would not recommend (but the finish on my parts turned out sick (the other kind of sick))

There's no set it and forget it. But there's plenty of things that don't require regular attention that enable you to go do other things around the house. Slow cookers, long roasts in the oven, smoking meats on the BBQ, long simmers on the stove. I make Christmas pudding most years and the recipe I use involves steaming the pudding for eight hours to cook it initially. Like fuck am I standing in the kitchen for eight hours watching a pudding steam. I get it going and then set an alarm to check on the water level periodically so it doesn't boil dry.

All that said I don't understand how people can't stay in the kitchen long enough to get a pot boiling. Or think they can leave anything going at high heat unattended for very long.

Some stuff I've done on a low stove has been on there for up to eight hours. I check the water level periodically but I'm not sitting in the kitchen for eight hours.

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I get that, but I was just talking about cooking on the stovetop, and even those times where you have something simmering forever, like making a stock, you use timers or something to monitor, and check on it before it melts metal to the stove as in the op.