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From: sanjay@utah-cs.UUCP (Sanjay Rajopadhye)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Real-life rice puzzler - A theory
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 11:16:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 11:16:59 1986
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Summary: Heating element


  OK, here's a theory for the concentric rings of bubble-holes when you
cook rice.  You are most probably cooking the rice on an electric range,
whose heating element has concentric circles (actually a spiral, but a
close enough approximation to circles).  That is the point that will get
hottest, and hence that is where the water boils.

 = Sanjay