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Well, you won't do that again. It could have been worse.
The next day when I was thinking clearly I actually said to DH, OMG, I was so lucky I didn't wind up in the ER with severe burns, especially to my face. Lesson learned cookies now take two days.
My mother learned to cook with cast iron over a wood stove. She could pick up hot pans like it was nothing and no burns.
My mom couldn't feel heat in her right hand. She said it was the result of some sort of chemical accident when she was younger. I grew up watching her grab cast iron and other pans with no fear. It was kind of weird. She did say she had to recognize when her skin was actually burning when she could smell burning flesh!
I burned myself badly, blisters and lingering pain/burn scars, a couple three times before I started remembering the misery of nursing a burn wound every time I open the oven. Fear of past events is a good reminder.
The worst was when I was a cook and people would take big (huge) sheet pans out of the oven, remove the food, and leave the hot pan just sitting there on one of the prep tables, looking clean, but unbeknownst to me, scorching hot. "Oh, I just need to shift this pan over a couple of inches... YOOOWWWWW!!!!" Since the pans were so heavy, you would really push hard on them to move them thus giving your finger tips a nice sear.
To this day I use towels, as is pretty standard in the professional cooking biz, but sometimes I think I should get some proper oven mitts.
Yes, I brushed up a against the handle of a pan I'd just taken out of the oven. The result is that I have a scar that looks like a B2 bomber. LOL I know it's shallow, but sometimes I get bummed when I see the scar because my body is mostly free of scars, but sometimes I look at it and think it's cool.
I keep a potholder on handles now to make sure that doesn't happen again.
i usually burn my arms on the rack above what im baking while taking it out
I do that - always the undersides of my forearms. I had an acupuncturist accuse me of being a "cutter" - i was like, "no dude, I'm just a clumsy baker"
Just a couple of weeks ago I was cooking pork in the BBQ when it caught fire. I tried to get the burning meat off the fire and it slipped off the tongs and a piece of flaming fat landed on my ankle and foot. Not so painful, but I'll have a nice scar.
The other day after I took out the preheated dutch oven and put it on the stove top, lid taken off, I forgot the lid was hot, and used my bare hand to pick up the lid, burned my finger.
Are there tips for preventing burning your hands while doing baking? Of course oven mitts, but what I mean is tips to remember the pot/lid that has been taken out of the oven is still very hot, or any other way to prevent being burned because of lack of attention.
Pro chefs have asbestos fingers.
I've burnt myself so many times I don't even reach for the ice any more.
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