Its a thing moms say to keep kids from asking “is it done yet?” since if the kid does something else, time passes faster for them. I put a pot of water on and stared at it just to prove my mom wrong since i was sick of hearing it, but she was saying it because the kitchen was small and i’d get in the way when cooking my food.
That’s probably why it’s stuck around now that we don’t have wood fired stoves, but lifting a lid to check on a pot really does cause heat loss and makes it take longer to boil.
Its a thing moms say to keep kids from asking “is it done yet?” since if the kid does something else, time passes faster for them. I put a pot of water on and stared at it just to prove my mom wrong since i was sick of hearing it, but she was saying it because the kitchen was small and i’d get in the way when cooking my food.
That’s probably why it’s stuck around now that we don’t have wood fired stoves, but lifting a lid to check on a pot really does cause heat loss and makes it take longer to boil.
It will still boil and the difference is single digit minutes at most.