ok so i am cooking my ramen noodles in my usual pot on the stove. its just a regular pot, teflon coated, and a plastic handle. and i smell something odd burning but no smoke or anything so i just kind of figured it was something that was on the stove or something. then when my ramen is done i grab the plastic handle and i burn myself. then i realize that the smell was the smell of burning plastic. i've used this pot hundreds of times and the handle has never heated up like that. anyone have any idea what could have made it heat up like that or what could have changed? i dunno its pretty baffling to me why a handle would suddenly start heating up like that. hell i used the pot earlier today day and it didn't do it. confused robbie
That has happened to some of the plastic handles of my pots in the washer. I use the "heated dry" option rather than air dry. Well, I did until one day I noticed an odd smell in my apartment, but I couldn't quite figure out what was causing it. 20 minutes later I started to unload the washer and noticed that the heating mechanism in the washer had melted the plastic handles on my pots! So air dry it is!
One time I cooked Ramen noodles on the stove and it made an odd smell, I did it in Tupperware. ...when I was 6 years old.
The plastic handle was probably directly over the element. Try to keep your pot positioned so that the handle pokes out away from the element. It may never have happened before because some areas of the element can be hotter than others and you just happened to have it over a "hot spot" this time.
