• Captain Aggravated
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    178 months ago

    Here’s the problem: a coffee pot gets hotter when there’s water going through it.

    The same heating element that warms the bottom of the carafe also heats a small section of tubing meant to boil water. This, along with a simple check valve, forms a bubble pump, which is how the hot water gets up to the coffee grounds.

    There’s a thermal switch that allows full power when that coil of water is below a certain temperature, and when it gets hotter than that, it switches to a lower power mode, because with no water to boil, all it needs to do is keep the carafe warm. I don’t have the numbers in front of me but I doubt it would get hot enough to properly cook chicken.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        48 months ago

        Actually I think that would work.

        • @Bombyk0l
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          14 months ago

          It does, there are multiple people on youtube that have effectively cooked soup in their coffee machines and used other appliances for food like the dishwasher for example.