what the aluminum pot is going on???

Okeejohn

Well, placed my caldo de pollo soup on top my cast iron grill which was above indirect heat at about 250 when suddenly I smelled something acrid. I looked and my pizza stone was on fire...obviously it was burning something off that dripped from the bottom of my aluminum pot. Smelled like burning plastic. I cleaned the pot before using it, too. Well, needless to say, I started over from scratch and this time I used my Dutch Oven..should of used it in the first place. Does anybody have any ideas what happened to the aluminum pot to react that way?? Sounds like a job for Alton Brown!!!!

Okeejohn

Nature Boy

All I know is that a burning plastic smell from an aluminum pot is not a good thing ;-)

Any pictures?
CHris