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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:12:53 PM EDT
[#1]
I'm paranoid though when it comes to that...but I would say not to do it..
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:14:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:14:36 PM EDT
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May not be the safest thing one could do, but you certainly arent going to burn anything down....last I checked, you cant start a fire with a pot of hot water.
If you have kids around its prob a bad idea though. |
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:14:37 PM EDT
[#4]
Unsafe. Stop being cheap and buy a humidifier.
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:16:05 PM EDT
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On the stove? no...on a woodstove in a cast iron pot? Not a problem. BTW, Wal*Mart sells them for $20 SGtar15 |
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:17:17 PM EDT
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My wife used to do that before she bought a humidifyer but she is always home to watch it. We still leave a pot of water on the woodburning heater.
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:18:58 PM EDT
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Wouldn't do it if you had younguns running around. Otherwise, go ahead.
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:19:53 PM EDT
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my humidifier broke, and it's going to warm up any day now, so I don't want to shell out the bucks for a new one (the rat bastards change the shapes of the filters all the time so you have to buy new machines or cut up the newer style filters to fit the older machines)
I had planned on not being a pussy and just putting up with dry air until it warms up. Then I woke up with a golfball size blood clot in my mouth and my face glued to my pillow from a late night nosebleed. |
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:22:28 PM EDT
[#9]
You'll put your eye out kid........
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:25:03 PM EDT
[#10]
Wheres the don't be cheap choice on the poll?
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:37:59 PM EDT
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With liquid water present, you can't exceed 100°C (212°F) (well, actually it can by a couple degrees, since it's not pure water and the activity coefficient is probably less than one - but we won't get into that).
But as soon as it drys out there's nothing left to regulate the temperature. If you put it on high and walk away, you could get that pot hotter than designed, and concievable melt then burn the plastic parts (handle, etc.). If you left it on simmer, as you say, then I'd say no worries. Worse that happens is it gets warm, but since simmer isn't even hot enough to cause the heating coils to glow - I don't see much danger. |
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:40:02 PM EDT
[#12]
Why not spend $29 and get a humidifier?
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:41:03 PM EDT
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gas stove, all metal pot, flame very low, just hot enough to get a decent amount of steam pouring off of the pot |
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:45:36 PM EDT
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I have a bit of experience in this area. Old cabin, no electricity, so I had to im provise. Got a large pan on a gas stove, low heat, ran it several days while in the cabin all day w/o problems. Thought it would be OK to leave it on while I went to work...coming in front door and heard HUGE bang and had molten metal sling by my head.
Moral....make for damn sure your pot does not run low/out of water or the pot will eventually fail and explode! |
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Posted: 3/10/2005 6:58:52 PM EDT
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Like he said. Make sure it doesn't run out of water. Also, as long as your gonna do it, put a few drops of vanilla in it..smells like someones baking bread.
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Posted: 3/10/2005 7:01:00 PM EDT
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That sounds trickier. If you're absolutley sure you can run it without running out of water, then you should be fine. The only way to test that though is to try it first. And don't try to short-cut estimating how much time you have - The rate of steam formation in the first hour will probably be slower than the rate in the last hour (less heat loss through the pot walls, since less water). Oh, and don't boil over either, because you could snuff your flame. Nothing like a house full of gas to do your own Fight-Club scene reinactment. I'm not sure this is a good idea. -Lazy |
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Posted: 3/10/2005 7:05:02 PM EDT
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I'll let you know if the place hasn't burned down in 8 hours. I'm going to sleep.
Woo Hoo! |
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Posted: 3/10/2005 7:05:10 PM EDT
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I'm glad I'm not your insurance agent.
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Posted: 3/10/2005 7:09:12 PM EDT
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I've got to say, living down here in the South -- purposefully h umidifying your house has got to be the most foreign thing I have ever heard of
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Posted: 3/11/2005 3:57:48 PM EDT
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I left it on while sleeping last night, and while I was at work today (that was a mistake, I just forgot about it in my rush to get out in the morning).
No problems. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 12:44:40 AM EDT
[#21]
 What happens when all your water boils out.
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Posted: 3/14/2005 12:47:00 AM EDT
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Just boil 2 gallons of grease on your stove and then go outside to talk to youe neighbor while its on the stove set at 11,
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Posted: 3/14/2005 12:50:49 AM EDT
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I think if you feel the need to ask the question, it is unsafe. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 1:22:41 AM EDT
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 You're posting from the homeless shelter. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 1:32:09 AM EDT
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Depends on the stove and the pot there pal.
Tj |
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