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I'm a Little Teapot, Scorched and Stout

Despite being specifically designed to withstand high temperatures, a metal stove top kettle can, in fact, catch on fire. This is one of the many valuable and useful lessons that ought to be taught in school, but isn’t. Recently, I found myself wishing that I had been given this knowledge in a structured academic environment, instead of learning it the hard way in my kitchen. You might think that it is fairly impossible to ignite a metal teapot using only the heat generated from a standard stove top burner, but you would be vastly underestimating Ring Luck. I don’t recall reading anywhere on the box that said that this sturdy water-boiling kitchen device wouldn’t catch on fire, so I guess it’s partially my own fault. My wife and stepson were away from the house at a Scouting event, and I was watching the girls at home. For some odd reason, I never considered boiling water to be particularly dangerous, so I started a saucepan of water to brew some tea. I’m not sure entirely what