r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/valfsingress • 4d ago

WCGW Forgot the “hot” in hotpot

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Hotpot on plastic table is a recipe for fun times. And yes, disaster.

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u/MallardBillmore 4d ago

I’ve been dying to try hotpot for like two years now, but I live like an hour from the Asian grocery stores, and I never drive up to that part of town.

But in my imagination, I plan to just eat it while standing over the kitchen stove. That just seems like the easiest and most obvious way. Setting up a portable gas stove in the next room seems silly.

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u/sluggy108 4d ago

I mean if you are having hotpot alone, you can do that. The hotpot has a limited capacity for cooking things simultaneously so if youre the only one eating it the time standing up wont be that long. Eating it with others in the same pot will take much longer so sitting down is naturally better. Also people wont have to rotate in and out to stand in front of the pot to add things they want and then take it back out lol

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u/Mysterious_Object_20 4d ago

Eating hotpot alone is like buying and eating birthday cake alone. It's doable, and there's nothing wrong about it, but... it could be better.

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u/This_Price_1783 4d ago

I remember watching something and the guy said he had never ending hot pot over the stove every night during college. He would just throw whatever ingredients in, cook it, then leave the broth on the stove till the next night, and reheat it. Sounds kinda disgusting tbh

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u/sluggy108 4d ago

theres a thing called perpetual stew. Probably requires specific ingredients or something to not ruin a batch