The issue though is that the dousing with water seemed to change the way I felt the heat. The pan felt quite warm when I was holding it, but within 2-3 seconds of running the water onto it, it became almost too hot to hold. It's like the water somehow caused the pan to become a faster heat conductor, which makes no sense to me.
edit: The heat is definitely not evenly distributed in the pan at the moment I start running water on it. The bottom of the pan is likely many times hotter than the handle since it was on the burner. That is probably very relevant to this.
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