Pringles CheezUms wrote:
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>I got a new stock pot and tried it out today, making spaghetti.
>It behaved differently than my old one and I thot I'd check here to see
>if it's normal.
>It's a 12-qt stainless steel and aluminum sandwich (at least on the
>bottom.) That's bigger than my old one which was only around 8 qt I'd
>guess, and the old one was also only single sheet of metal. Not aluminum
>tho, too heavy for that.
>The problem is it never would get to a rolling boil tonite. It came
>close and have big bubbles coming up the middle of the water but never
>quite make it to rolling like the old one. There was more water in it,
>but I let it go for what seemed like plenty of time to get it there.
>It cooked the spaghetti, but took longer than my old one.
>
>What I want to know is that normal for a large pot of this type?

Obviously your burner hasn't a great enough BTU rating for bringing 12
quarts of water to a rolling boil... it's not the pot, it's your cook
top.