I'm dangerous in the kitchen

[iradney]

to myself...

Last year on my birthday, while baking a cake, I managed to burn my forearm on the oven element. I now have a lovely 2 inch scar

I have various scars on my hands and arms from nicking, cutting and burning myself - all through sheer stupidity or clumsyness.

Hell, tonight, I tried making polenta. That stuff is MOLTEN LAVA!!! It was simmering away, some landed on the underside of my forearm, and now I have a blister. Marvelous

Anyone else have any "DOH" stories?

[AdminAssistant]

I burn myself about once a week, almost always doing the same darn thing (why don't I learn?) I'll be reaching into the oven to put something in or get something out, and zing myself on either the other oven rack or the door.

[Frantic Freddie]

Sliced my left thumb open on Thanksgiving.
The 1st time I used my turkey fryer to fry fish & shrimp I found out real fast I needed long sleeves & gloves.

[Ree]

Awww...poor Rads! Hope it heals without a mark.

[iradney]

Awww...poor Rads! Hope it heals without a mark.

Thanks Ree. I doubt it I scar easily *sigh* thank heavens for tissue oil! (I'm not putting on the burn until it's healed, ofc).

[BookstoreEscapee]

I burned my finger on steam from a microwave dinner last week. That was ow.

I don't have any scars from cooking; I do have one on my right middle finger from a cat food can that didn't want to open. Probably should have gotten stitches on that one but I didn't. Luckily it healed fine and left just a white line.

[jedimaster91]

I like to put dehyrated veggies in my spaghetti sauce, which means the sauce needs to simmer awhile so the veggies get rehydrated. So one day I was making spaghetti and when I went to stir the sauce some of it bubbled and splattered on my hand. Pain reflex kicks in and I jerked the hand holding the spoon away....only for it to splatter more hot s'ketti sauce on my foot. So, yeah. Gave myself second degree burns from spaghetti sauce. >.<

[ApolloSZ]

Cooking? No. Model craft?.... yes. What? EVERYONE buries scapels in their thumb tip don't they? Right! Right?!! You just won't admit it. So there.... *Goes sulk in the corner* Shouldn't make the blades so sharp.....


Cooking related, last new years mum was using a ceramic pie server to dish up the choc-khalua cheesecake (OMG NOM!) and it shattered in her had. Nice 7 stitch gash in the fleshy part at the base of her thumb.

Cheesecake was fine, didn't get any blood on it XD

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Some Irv-made chili I microwaved in an old soup bowl with a handle that came from my grandparents when they moved down to Florida full time.

I pulled the bowl out of the microwave by the handle, only to have it break off the bowl. And I happened to be wearing shorts at the time.

Got some lovely first and second-degree burns from the hot chili spilling down my legs.

[Lyse]

There are guards that go on the edges of the racks that prevent burns - I think that they are made of silicone?

[XCashier]

Cooking? No. Model craft?.... yes. What? EVERYONE buries scapels in their thumb tip don't they? Right! Right?!! You just won't admit it. So there....

I did, actually...when I was a kid, we were making dioramas in school and I was cutting cardboard with an Xacto knife. Sliced my left thumbnail diagonally in half, into the flesh!

Cooking, apart from the occasional steam burn, I rarely have any problems. Of course, now I've jinxed myself and will end up dropping a hot casserole dish on my foot...!

[ShadowBall]

I've had a couple accidents in the kitchen. The first time I made fried noodles, I dumped a pile of cooked pasta into a pan with oil and soy sauce. And flames shot up out of the pan like the gates of Hell themselves opened. No idea why - it never happened again.

And a few months ago, I was looking in this empty roaster thing in the kitchen (doesn't work - the top is filled with freezer bags). A thick plate of clear glass fell out of the top of it and landed perfectly on one of my toes. Ohhh that hurt - I am still in awe that I did not break that toe. The bruising was incredible and only on that toe. If I tried to hit one of my digits with such precision, I would not have been able to.

I've also sliced my finger right deep when cutting up a soda can. Don't ask me why I was doing it. Funny thing was that despite the massive bleeding, it didn't hurt at all. But I whine like a little bitch if I get a paper cut. Odd.

[BarbieGirl]

Labor day I was steaming some potatoes in the microwave and I pulled off the saran wrap without thinking and burned the whole back of my hand from the steam.

Just 30 minutes ago I was sewing and got my finger too close, broke the needle in my finger. Went through my nail at an angle and sliced open the tip of my finger, then the needle broke in half. =-(

[SteeleDragon78]

sadly its not a bbq unless i singe the hair off my hands laying down burgers and such. i also have scars on my hands from working in an oyster bar, one from stabbing myself in the hand with an oyster knife, the other from a shell shard that left a 3/4" ragged gash on my index finger.

[Kal]

My most impressive burn, disregarding the minor imprints of oven shelves on my forearms, is a red mark about three inches across on my right foot where I managed to spill half a roasting tray of bubbling oil for roast potatoes. Thankfully I had thick socks on and yanked it off quickly, before sticking my foot under a bath tap for ten minutes, but it still hurt like a bugger. The sound of my Fffuuuuu! (we have small kids and I tend not to swear anyway, so I never finished the word) echoed around the house for quite some time. Ended up with a massive blister across my foot that I needed to pop and put a dressing on before my shoes would fit on again.