did you ever boil water in a kettle and ...

It happened that I forgot a pot with boiling potatoes in it. All the water evaporated and the pot became black, the potatoes had a smoky taste, not bad.

You've wasted gas. You've leave it for so long since the kettle turn empty. It happens to me when I'm cooking rice

That hasn't happened to me at all and we use an electric kettle for boiling water. Be careful.

That's quite a bit dangerous. I had tried this before but it wasn't that serious.

I'm not sure if it would burn a hole or not but I think it probably would. It might make the kettle unusable.

Yes i have experienced the same. Good thing we had a kettle that whistles! And I supposed if you haven't shut if off it would really create a hole in the pot

It very much depends on what metal your pot is made of. If it were aluminium, the bottom would have probably melted, if it were copper, iron or steel, it might have got red hot but it wouldn't have made a hole. My mother once had a cast aluminium saucepan (much heavier and thicker than the ones which are pressed or spun). Our stove was electric and the hotplates were of the solid kind heated by an element underneath them. One day she put some tomatoes in the pot to cook for a little and forgot that she had left the heat on when she went into town. When she returned several hours later, there was a burning smell and she lifted the pot off the ring to find that there was a pool of bright molten aluminium with the blackened image of the tomatoes in it! We switched off the hotplate and let the metal cool, of course! Allowing molten metal to pour into the innards of an electric cooker might have been disastrous!

Oh, my! You literally burn the water. We use a whistling kettle so the moment it starts whistling, I would go out of the kitchen to switch off the gas range. You should now buy a new one - a whistlng one. Mine is a prize from the 2015 Christmas party raffle. I always win a prize from the raffle yearly. Maybe because my birthday is December and I consider it a gift for me.

Don't let it happen anymore, because you'd end up the house burning. I remember leaving behind rotten burned eggs.

It happened once and the pot turned brown. When I warm milk I do it on low heat just in case I forget.

I have an electric kettle that automatically switches off once it has boiled the water, but I once forgot a pot filled with water I was boiling to make noodles, when I got back to it the water had almost all evaporated too, and there was a terrible smell in the air. I am happy you switched it off before any damage was done.

This story reminds me of my neighbor who always asks us hot water for his coffee in the morning.

when i boil water in the kettle, i keep the fire at the minimum, so it takes long when it boils. good thing the kettle did not burst due to the hotness since it was empty

I hope the kettle is fine

When boiling water or milk, I set an alarm in my mobile, so as not to forget about boiling.

No ..i don't have kettle , never tried .

It probably would... I use electric kettle... It stops automatically when the water reaches its boiling point...

It was long time ago when it happened to me. The kettle almost burn.

I boiled an egg once and forgot about it. The egg shell turned into brown.

I have done that a few times with my tea pot. Usually when I am trying to do to many things at once. I don't know if it would burn a hole in mine, I don't think so, but it sure leaves a burnt color on the bottom!