Originally Posted By: scafool
Originally Posted By: dweste
I wonder if you could do the boil-water-in-a-paper-bag thing with newspaper?


I found it too fragile.
It works when set up on a ring stand over a bunsen burner as a school demonstration, but in the real world the paper is too soft to handle when wet and it tears apart under the weight of the water when you try moving it


You dip the water out with a cup.