When you cook food in a saucepanwith a lid on. You may notice water on the inside of the lid. Why is this?

Question

When you cook food in a saucepanwith a lid on. You may notice water on the inside of the lid. Why is this? Use the partical theory

Answer 1

As the previous person said - the water turns to steam (a gas) ,it rises, hits the colder lid, and reverts back to water - this is condensation.

Answer 2

It's because when you heat something the water from it turns from a liquid to a gas (evaporates) and as the lid is on the gas cannot escape. Therefore it hits the lid cools down and turns back to water only to drip down to the base of the saucepan to evaporate again and so on and so on....

Answer 3

The water on the inside of the lid is called condensation. The water in the food that you are cooking boils and rises to the underside of the lid. The lid is comparatively cooler that the boiling water that touches it. Therefore the boiling  water cools or condenses to a liquid, being the water that you see