17 December 2023 , 13:01
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A man has blown people's minds with a smart trick to stop boiling pasta water from bubbling over the pan.
Everyone has done it before. You're cooking pasta and get distracted for a second and then suddenly the boiling water is bubbling over. Of course, you can turn down the heat to stop this from happening, but what if you could still cook your pasta on high heat, but simply stop the bubbling over?
One man has wowed people by using an ice cube. The life hack has been described as a "need" as people say they "must try it as soon as possible". The TikTok user, whose video was shared via @Lifehacks and raked in a whopping five million views, said: "Mind blown. I didn't believe it, so I had to try it myself!"
In the clip, when the water starts to boil, the pasta cooker drops an ice cube into the pan and it instantly lowers the temperature - preventing it from spilling over the side. Thousands of people commented on the post. While some were wowed others said you just need to turn the heat down.
One individual said: "That's a cool hack! Great video." Another wrote: "I pour a bit of cold water in when it’s ready to boil over." A third added: "Oh wow I’m gonna use this because Almost every time I have an overspill. Thank you."
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Another suggested: "You can also lay a wooden spoon across the top of the pot and it won't boil over." One other wrote: "I taught my mom of 74 years that if you put the wooden spoon in the boiling water, the water will never boil over. She was astonished."
One individual said: "Doesn't everyone know that cooling down boiling water stops it from boiling over!" Another added: "Just turn the heat down?"
A TikTok user was stunned after trying the cooking hack (tiktok/@lifehack)
The trick was branded 'mind blowing' after it stop boiling water bubbling over the pan (tiktok/@lifehack)Impressed or not, there is actually a very good scientific explanation behind why the ice cube stops the water from boiling over the pan.
According to a thread on physics.stackexchange.com: "When you put a pot of water on the stove and turn the burner on, the heat source of the stove gets hot relatively fast, but the water takes a while to boil. For multiple reasons, it takes a while for the water to heat up, or in other words for the heat of the burner to be transferred throughout the pot of water.
"When you add the ice cube to the boiling water, you very quickly cool off the boiling water which will cause the water to stop boiling. It will then take some time for the heat from the burner to heat the water back up to boiling."
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