# Copper Pot full of water burning away on oven? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Garage\ **Created:** [March 11, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/copper-pot-full-of-water-burning-away-on-oven/19166 "2019-03-11T08:46:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![Tazeell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/tazeell/32/4576_2.png) [@Tazeell](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tazeell)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/copper-pot-full-of-water-burning-away-on-oven/19166/1 "2019-03-11T08:46:47Z")

A lot of the time I’ve kept varous pots and things, sometimes with stuff in them on to of an oven and never run into an issue. Can be nice for a bit of an automatic defrost of your water. But my copper pot full of water just vanished away when I did it in 0.D. Just burned away to ash. I am thoroughly confused. ---

**Author:** ![Ricky\_Van](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ricky_van/32/4666_2.png) [@Ricky\_Van](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ricky_Van)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/copper-pot-full-of-water-burning-away-on-oven/19166/2 "2019-03-11T12:15:01Z")

hmm … some weird issue there… but its funny tho, you defrost a water on cooper pot using oven… few minutes later it turns to ash… nuclear powered oven maybe? ---

**Author:** ![QuietCoyote](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/quietcoyote/32/6451_2.png) [@QuietCoyote](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/QuietCoyote)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/copper-pot-full-of-water-burning-away-on-oven/19166/3 "2019-03-11T12:32:12Z")

Lol, just accept fire is the consumer of all things, living or not, and you’ll be set for the rest of the game. (And the fact that most things burn before they melt, that’s why forging things without proper equipment can ruin a lot of metal too…) ---

**Author:** ![TheZoneWizard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/thezonewizard/32/1397_2.png) [@TheZoneWizard](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheZoneWizard)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/copper-pot-full-of-water-burning-away-on-oven/19166/4 "2019-03-11T20:54:59Z")

Fun read: > **[Antimicrobial properties of copper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_copper)** > > Copper and its alloys (brasses, bronzes, cupronickel, copper-nickel-zinc, and others) are natural antimicrobial materials. Ancient civilizations exploited the antimicrobial properties of copper long before the concept of microbes became understood in the nineteenth century. In addition to several copper medicinal preparations, it was also observed centuries ago that water contained in copper vessels or transported in copper conveyance systems was of better quality (i.e., no or little visibl The a... Copper wouldn’t melt in a stove top fire. Else it wouldn’t be a object to cook one’s food with. But. Here is hoping for a fix sometime in the future right 😉 ---

**Author:** ![QuietCoyote](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/quietcoyote/32/6451_2.png) [@QuietCoyote](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/QuietCoyote)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/copper-pot-full-of-water-burning-away-on-oven/19166/5 "2019-03-11T21:06:15Z")

I didn’t say it would melt… I said it would burn, there is a difference… The one reason copper isn’t a staple of cooking is because it burns on a stove top fire, resulting in companies needing to rinse the copper is carcinogenic chemicals to keep the copper from burning into the food. Those carcinogens are why people don’t want to use copper to cook 90% of the time, as they scrap off very easy with a steel spatula… Also using it’s antimicrobial property would take a long time to take effect, thats why most hospitals use tin/stainless steel dipped in a solution as it is quicker and easy to produce, and doesn’t leave copper stains wherever it is applied. ---

**Author:** ![Zhilkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zhilkin/32/3749_2.png) [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 6:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/copper-pot-full-of-water-burning-away-on-oven/19166/6 "2019-03-12T06:35:11Z")