Billy Black / Steam over boiled Lobsters (Homarus americanus). Gilkey Harbour, Islesboro, Maine, USA.

Jabruson / Overripe 'Popoko' fruit on the forest floor, Sterculia (Sterculia sp) eaten by a lot of forest animals and water from the boiled bark is used as a cold remedy by local tribes people, Bai Hokou, Dzanga...

Jabruson / 'Nguluma' tree trunk structure (Duboscia macrocarpa) lots of rainforest species eat teh leaves, fruit and seeds of this species and local people use water from boiled fruit as a cure for colds, Bai Ho...

Jabruson / 'Nguluma' tree trunk structure (Duboscia macrocarpa) lots of rainforest species eat teh leaves, fruit and seeds of this species and local people use water from boiled fruit as a cure for colds, Bai Ho...

Jabruson / 'Nguluma' tree trunk structure (Duboscia macrocarpa) lots of rainforest species eat teh leaves, fruit and seeds of this species and local people use water from boiled fruit as a cure for colds, Bai Ho...

Jabruson / Ripe 'Popoko' fruit on the forest floor, Sterculia (Sterculia sp) eaten by a lot of forest animals and water from the boiled bark is used as a cold remedy by local tribes people, Bai Hokou, Dzanga-Ndo...

Ernie Janes / Kettle giving off steam, often kettles are filled too full and more water is boiled than used, wasting power. UK

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Chukchi herders eating meal of boiled reindeer meat inside their tent. Chukotskiy Peninsula, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, 2010

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man carrying Chonta palm nuts which are boiled then eaten. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007. Model release B#2.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian making Curare tipped darts. Curare is one of the most toxic poisons known to man and is made from a liana. The poison is boiled on the fire. The dart tips are dipped into the poison wh...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man carrying Chonta palm nuts which are boiled then eaten. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007. Model release B#2.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man carrying Chonta palm nuts which are boiled then eaten. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007. Model release B#2.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian making Curare tipped darts. Curare is one of the most toxic poisons known to man and is made from a liana. The poison is boiled on the fire. The dart tips are dipped into the poison wh...

Juergen Freund / Traditional salt making - brine is boiled in a large open pan over fire of palm fronds for 8hrs, East Timor, August 2010.

Juergen Freund / Traditional salt making - brine is boiled in a large open pan over fire of palm fronds for 8hrs, East Timor, August 2010.

Juergen Freund / Traditional salt making - brine is boiled in a large open pan over fire of palm fronds for 8hrs, East Timor, August 2010.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenets woman feeding boiled fish to young, weak Reindeer / Caribou (Rangifer tarandus). Yamal, Siberia, Russia, 1993.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenets woman feeding boiled fish to young weak Reindeer / Caribou calf (Rangifer tarandus) at winter camp. Yamal, Siberia, Russia, 1996.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Table of traditional North Greenlandic foods: Greenland Halibut, Mattaq (Narwhal skin), eider duck eggs, dried narwhal meat, Arctic char, boiled seal meat & dried polar cod, Thule, Northwest Greenlan...

Miles Barton / Desert hyacinth (Cistanche tubulosa) parasitic plant with underground tuber, flowering in desert, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Boiled stem traditionally used to cure diarrhoea. Believed to be aphrodis...

Miles Barton / Desert hyacinth (Cistanche tubulosa) parasitic plant with underground tuber, flowering in desert, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Boiled stem traditionally used to cure diarrhoea. Believed to be aphrodis...

Miles Barton / Desert hyacinth (Cistanche tubulosa) parasitic plant with underground tuber, flowering in desert, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Boiled stem traditionally used to cure diarrhoea. Believed to be aphrodis...

Bruno D'Amicis / Ethiopian women preparing coffee (Coffea arabica) according to traditional ceremony. After roasting the coffee, this is pounded and boiled in terracotta pitcher, Bonga, Kaffa Zone, Southern Ethiopia...

Gary K. Smith / Soft Boiled Egg in egg cup, with toast soldiers

George Chan / Silk Cocoons being boiled to unravel the threads before spinning. Hotan (Hetian) City, Xinjiang Province, North-west China. July 2006, BBC "Wild China" series

Pete Oxford / Shrunken head (Tsantza), Shuar tribe, Ecuador. Jivaro Shuar tribe used to shrink head of enemies killed in battle - first they removed the skull and boiled it to shrink the head. Then the eyes and li...

Pete Oxford / Tsansa shrunken head, Shuar, Indian Ecuador. South America Jivaro Shuar tribe used to shrink head of enemies killed in battle - first they removed the skull and boiled it to shrink the head. Then th...

Pete Oxford / Tsansa shrunken head, Shuar, Indian Ecuador. South America Jivaro Shuar tribe used to shrink head of enemies killed in battle - first they removed the skull and boiled it to shrink the head. Then th...

Pete Oxford / Tsansa shrunken head, Shuar, Indian Ecuador. South America Jivaro Shuar tribe used to shrink head of enemies killed in battle - first they removed the skull and boiled it to shrink the head. Then th...

Pete Oxford / Butchered dog for eating. Hair removed with boiling water then the skin is torched before the meat is either cooked over coals or boiled. Yuanyang, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province. China

Pete Oxford / Butchered dog for eating. Hair removed with boiling water then the skin is torched before the meat is either cooked over coals or boiled. Yuanyang, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province. China