• A watched pot is never this
• Agitated
• At full bubble
• Bring to ___
• Bubbling
• Bubbling and steaming
• Bubbling hot
• Bubbling in the pot
• Bubbling on the burner
• Bubbling on the range
• Bubbling on the stove
• Bubbling over
• Bubbling, as hot water
• Bubbling, like hot water
• Bubbly
• Buzzing with excitement
• Buzzing, as with excitement
• Come to ___ (begin bubbling)
• Cooking
• Excitedly
• Excitedly active
• Extremely excited
• Extremely hot
• Frothing
• Full of excitement
• Fuming
• Furious
• Heated on high
• Hot and bothered
• Hot and bubbling
• In a frenzy
• In a state of excited activity
• In a tumultuous state
• In an excited state
• Intensely excited
• Irate
• Like 212 degrees water
• Like a commodities pit
• Like a whistling teakettle
• Like an unwatched pot?
• Like geysers
• Like really hot water
• Like some pots on the stove
• Like water at 212
• Like water ready for pasta
• Mad as can be
• More than simmering
• Not merely simmering
• Obviously hot on the range
• Percolating
• Quite stirred up
• Ready for cooking spaghetti
• Ready for pasta, say
• Really hot
• Seething
• Seething, stirred up
• Simmering
• Spaghetti-ready, as water
• Steaming
• Tea-ready, as water
• Way excited
• Whistling in the kitchen, say
• With lid rattling, say