As we were butchering our cow I happened to see a bottle of water on the workbench and since we had a fire going in the wood stove at the time I thought that I would try to boil it on our wood stove for cleaning off the table after we were finished cutting up the meat. The fire we had going in the garage at the time was fairly hot so I thought that it would work. To start the process I just took a water bottle and placed it right on top of the wood stove.
Amazingly enough the bottle never melted. The reason is that the thin walls of the bottle quickly transfer the fire’s heat to the water inside. The plastic bottle has a melting point of about 240F and since all the heat transfers to the water the bottle will never melt until all of the water has boiled off.
After thirty minutes or so the water bottle began to get hot along with the water inside of the bottle and began to bubble like it does right before it starts to boil. At this point we needed some hot water to clean the table so we dumped out about half of it for the cleaning.
This is the closest that the water ever got to a boiling temperature because we forgot to put wood on the fire for a few hours but when we dumped out the water bottle the water was unbearable with the bare hands. At the end the bottle had shrunk quite a bit from the heat and we thought it might fall over so we had to end the experiment but it never melted.
The cap was not on the bottle when I preformed this experiment. I think that the bottle would eventually build up enough pressure from the steam produced from the evaporating water and may blow up. NOTE: If you get hurt because you tried to make it blow up A. Don't blame me because I am not responsible for your accidents and B. if you got it on video send it to me and I will upvote it :)
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