So I hope you can forgive me for never quite being sure how that annoying tidemark of salt appears on the sides of my pot after cooking pasta or rice in it, despite understanding the basics of ...

With that, a white ring of salt deposits will often show up within the pan. A group of curious and hungry physicists harnessed the power of fluid dynamics to see what ingredients are necessary to ...

If you've ever tossed a generous pinch of salt into your pasta pan's water for flavor or as an attempt to make it boil faster, you've likely ended up with a whitish ring of deposits inside the pan.