Comment on Crisco in a Terracotta: Decoding the (Mostly) Useless Candle Meme
meco03211@lemmy.world 1 week agoYeah. The effects of convection from an uncapped candle will spread the heat to the room and ceiling much faster than when trapped. The pot absorbing the heat traps it and changes the heat transfer to radiative heating which will csuse a lower convective heat transfer coefficient when heating the air around it.