This is a thermal question...
I was making some gravy tonight and, as I was stirring and not having much else I could do, got to thinking about boiling water (sort of like why there are so many "toilet oriented inventions", leading one to suspect where most inventors do their pondering). Anyway.
If one puts the bottom part of a double boiler on the stove, filled with water and then sets a sealed pressure cooker, with water in it, on top of it, can the temperature of the water in the pressure cooker exceed the temperature of the water in the lower pan?
Of course, all the usual standard ambient conditions apply and extraneous heat sources are ignored.
I was making some gravy tonight and, as I was stirring and not having much else I could do, got to thinking about boiling water (sort of like why there are so many "toilet oriented inventions", leading one to suspect where most inventors do their pondering). Anyway.
If one puts the bottom part of a double boiler on the stove, filled with water and then sets a sealed pressure cooker, with water in it, on top of it, can the temperature of the water in the pressure cooker exceed the temperature of the water in the lower pan?
Of course, all the usual standard ambient conditions apply and extraneous heat sources are ignored.
Last edited: