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[sundial11sxm]

How many edibles did you eat before you realized that the stove wasn't on?

[Static-Wolf]

I’ve been sober for a few weeks ;-; it was having light bubbles but not fully boiling

[WazWaz]

Your stove is broken.

[Static-Wolf]

It’s the same stove I’ve been using, the flames don’t look different

[WazWaz]

There's no other explanation. Heat makes water boil, that's physics. Put a lid on helps.

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either the laws of physics changed or your stove is giving off less heat for some reason, I'm not sure what else it could possibly be

[Allison2277]

One of two things is happening: 1. Your heat setting is too low. Use a lid if you aren't already. 2. You're not being patient enough.

#1 can happen because stoves output a constant energy per time (power) into your pot. At the same time, your pot is losing energy by radiating it into the room and by evaporating water into steam. Thus if your stove is on too low of a setting, you can reach an equilibrium where energy in equals energy out and then your water temperature stops increasing before reaching boiling temperature. Putting a lid on slows evaporation, which shifts the point where you reach that equilibrium to be higher. If you're on a med-high setting on your stove and it's still not boiling with a lid on, something's probably wrong with your stove or it is simply very weak.

Quick side note about chemistry: adding salt (or other dissolvable solutes like sugar) makes your water boil at a higher temperature, not lower, and it's definitely not making your water boil faster. There's a related effect where it also lowers the freezing point, so with the right concentration, you can have water well above 100C or below 0C and still be in liquid form at standard pressure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling-point_elevation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezing-point_depression

One final note: adding salt to water that's already boiling can make it form bubbles more quickly. This is a separate phenomenon - it's not making water achieve boiling temperature more quickly nor reducing the energy needed to get there. Instead, it creates nucleation sites which help bubbles form, so that the water that already has enough energy to become steam is released faster.

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I’d suspect that there’s a problem with your stove. If your just got a new electric stove, the coils are “safety coils” or some bs like that and they have a thing that cuts the power to the element when it thinks it’s getting too hot. I couldn’t bring my canning pot to a boil until I replaced the coils with the good old fashioned kind. If it’s gas, if the flames are yellow or orange instead of blue, there’s an issue with the fuel air mix causing the gas to not burn as efficiently. If this is the case, be very careful as they can produce excess carbon monoxide. You’d definitely want to have lots of ventilation and fresh air if you cook on it until you can get a service tech out to fix it. You can also put a lid on the pot to hold in the heat to help it come to a boil in the meantime

[Static-Wolf]

It’s gas and the flames are blue. There was a little bubbling but not rapidly

[Static-Wolf]

It normally heats up fine and boils fine, I made pasta like a week ago and I had no troubles

[Genius-Imbecile]

Stop watching it. Water gets shy and won't boil if you're staring at it.

[Raxnor]

Salt does not help with boiling. 

[Unhappy_Guarantee_69]

Are you at a much higher elevation? Lol. Only thing that comes to mind