• Starik
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    3 days ago

    Think about your oven, turned up to 500 degrees. You put a cast iron pan on one rack, and a 10x10-inch sheet of aluminum foil on another rack. While they heat up, fill two sinks halfway with water. Pull the pan out of the oven and throw it in a sink. Pull the sheet of aluminum foil out and throw it in the other sink. Which produces more steam?

    The pan and foil were both the same temperature, 500 degrees, but one had more heat capacity than the other.

    • Laurel Raven@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      I mean, hell, I’ve pulled aluminum foil out of an oven and it’s safe to handle without protection in seconds of coming out