I used to think what heated the food in the pan was the boiling water, not the heat under it.
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I believed they put heated coils in lakes for the ducks to swim in the wintertime.Anon
- I used to believe that the heat from the furnace came from hell, and that it was a straight drop there.Anon
- 'I've got candy in my ears tonight, baby'.
~Canned Heat, Jimiroquai.— Nin - I thought that cold was an actual, positive force and not just the absence of heat— terberous
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave