Hack's output

• Prize chicken perhaps that's quickly produced for money
• Fine literature it's not
• Reader mightn’t stand this heat in the kitchen, perhaps?
• Hack job of writing or painting
• Hack novel
• Poor novel likely to be steamy

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.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of pot boiler English)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel , play , opera , film , or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses—thus the imagery of "boil the pot", which means "to provide one's livelihood". ...

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]