Reader mightn’t stand this heat in the kitchen, perhaps?

• Quickly written novel of little merit
• Work written to sell well
• Hack's novel
• Fine literature it's not
• Hack job of writing or painting
• Hardly fine literature
• Prize chicken perhaps that's quickly produced for money

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pot-boiler , 1864 in the figurative literary sense, from pot (n.1) + agent noun from boil (v.). The notion is of something one writes solely to put food on the table.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees. ▪ The title, like nearly everything else in this brilliant, incisive political potboiler ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Potboiler \Pot"boil`er\, n. A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [Cant]