[Let's Roll]

Oh, yeah, that’s Lake Michigan - just one big old boiling cauldron.

Seriously, how much hotter can water get if the boiling point is 212F?

[RinaseaofDs]

Steam can, and should, be superheated for use in steam turbines. Temperature of superheated steam is in the 600 degreeF range. The old steam boilers used on UL cargo ships had inner stage steam running through it in excess of 600 degrees. Steam becomes invisible at that temperature, which makes steam leaks extremely dangerous.

[FrogMom]

My pressure cooker, at 15 PSI cooks at 250 degrees.

[txhurl]

Even pressure cookers only get 250o.

There is someone who is literally cooking the books, we need to find out who it is.

[SunTzuWu]

At normal air pressure it can't get any hotter than 212^o. Above that it turns to steam and carries away the excess energy. That's why you can't solder a pipe that has water in it. The pipe won't get any hotter than 212^o. Solder (for plumbing) melts around 480^o.

[Boogieman]

“Seriously, how much hotter can water get if the boiling point is 212F?”

Well, I asked my buddy AlGore about that and here’s his explanation:

‘You know when you are boiling a pot of water on the stove? Well the water on the bottom of the pan near the fire might get to 100 degrees celcius but if the rest of the water in the pot is not hot enough, none of the water will boil. Same thing here, the middle of Lake Michigan could easily be a few hundred degrees above the boiling point, but unless the ENTIRE lake is above 212 degrees, the water won’t boil’