a stove top is attached to the top of the oven.. the heat goes through. therefore it gets hot.
It is belived that the center of a stove burner con be over 600 degrees!
That will vary depending on the individual stove.
A burner on a stove that uses electricity to become hot and, you know dude, cook stuff
obviously you'll get burned if you touch the stove while its hot.
through radiation
One example is convection, like when a pot of water is on a hot stove burner.
The predominant heat transfer mechanism used to transfer heat from the pan to the stove burner is radiation.
thermal
A gas stove lights quickly as opposed to an electric which you have to wait for it to heat up. Gas stoves also offer a more even heating range which helps majorily when cooking just about everything. You can also roast hot dogs and marshmellow on the burner unlike on an electric one.
The only way to 'place' water on a hot burner is when it is a solid (ice), or as a container of liquid water Naturally, the hot burner would melt it into a liquid and rapidly boid it away into water vapor (gas)
One example is convection, like when a pot of water is on a hot stove burner.
Most experiments here do not end well. It is possible, however, if the pot is put on a room-temp stove, and heated simultaneously with the stove burner. When finished with the hot pot, set it back down on the hot burner, and turn the burner off so that they cool together. Even grabbing the hot pot with a cool utensil will cause cracking, as it is the temperature difference that causes the ceramic to crack.