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What if they write " Hi Mom " On the moon dust with their foot prints in big letters?

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i've seen some mats made for induction cooking on amazon. however, some reviews talking about them melting (which results not just in money loss of item, but very hard or impossible to remove stain on the expensive stovetop).

now, some reviews are likely to be from ill informed people with an electric stove. however, some claim to be certain that they have induction stove and they still melted, which worries me.

I sear steaks, pork chops, and chicken at 400-420F (around 210C) on my induction cooktop all the time.

i've seen some mats made for induction cooking on amazon. however, some reviews talking about them melting (which results not just in money loss of item, but very hard or impossible to remove stain on the expensive stovetop).

now, some reviews are likely to be from ill informed people with an electric stove. however, some claim to be certain that they have induction stove and they still melted, which worries me.

okay so what are they made of?

The exception is probably when cast iron is used for searing. If all goes well, that should significantly exceed the temperature kitchen silicone mats can handle.

It certainly has an impact on geography on a smaller scale if it is big enough. A moon the size of Mars would create huge tides that would impact the shores all over the planet. Large mudflats that stretch for many kilometers, connect islands to the mainland for a few hours twice per day while flooded during high tides could be very common features on your planet. Coastal cities would have to deal with tides several meters high and build accordingly etc. Of course, the smaller the moon and the further away from the planet it is, the less it impacts your planet.

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I’ve seen silicone mats for this purpose to prevent scratching of the cooktop. Never tested them myself though

Kinda true (slab-pull also has an effect but it sort of needs plate tectonics to already exist to drive plate tectonics) but that's happening in all planets, so what is special about Earth that it developed plate tectonics while Venus or Mars didn't?

They can get much hotter but if you don’t want to burn stuff you can cook at lower temperature. Some fancy new induction tops allow you to set the temperature of the pan. Non stick coatings burn off at around 500 F. So I keep a laser thermometer to keep tabs on the temp.

A thin silicone mat will work fine for what you want, and handle most of the temperatures you're going to be exposing it to (the pan is going to be hot, even if there is no radiant heat from the element itself).

They'll still melt if you go too hot, but for your average cooking, they're enough.

It's good for cast iron cookware. Shelters the ceramic top from the iron.

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Simple experimental solution for you: fill a pot with a known volume of tap water. Put it on the burner and time how long it takes to boil. Dump that water out. Dry the pot, cool it to room temperature. Fill with the same volume of tap water. Put the rag down, put the pot on top, turn on the burner to the same setting, time how long it takes to boil. Compare.

No, I thought the really thin dish towels were called "lint free". They weren't made of plastic and weren't microfiber cloth. They were more like the thickness of a t-shirt than a towel. They just didn't have the fluff that makes towels so thick.

Kitchen towel is not a good example since it comes in many shapes and sizes. Also it compresses down depending on the weight on top of it. Also the risk of fire. If you want to cover the pan, use silicone or something

No where near the same scale as plate tectonics. On the local level tides will cause erosion but when we do modeling of tectonics with something like gplates you aren't modeling the small time scale erosionable bits (like the coastline) anyway you are modeling masses of rock. The fine details that would be effected by tidal erosion are just left to artistic interpretation once you make more detailed maps.

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you mean microfiber? that has a melting point much lower than cotton