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[LostMyMind]

Never fry bacon without a shirt on.

wimp I do all my cooking without a shirt on (in my house). Frying too. But then again, I'm weird.

I don't have burn scars (at least I can't find em). I get burn all the time. Dang bad eyes make me think the rack, pan, grill, or any general fiery hot item is a little farther away than it is.

Cut scars, that's another story. Got lots of those.

[Becks]

To me, hot cookies aren't worth the burn. I'll wait until they're warm.

[mattm04]

[QUOTE=Kogarashi;326352]
a nice inch-long welt-burn on one elbow when coworker accidentally hit me with the fry basket fresh from the deep-fryer. Yee-owch. Bought some aloe gel for that one that very night (yay for the grill being part of a student convenience store).
/QUOTE]

In HS i was in the "food service" program which ran a restaurant for student and did banquets for community events. Or dish machine was along the outside wall with all the equipment in the middle of the room. One fellow students had some overcooked fries in a basket and instead of walking the three feet to the trash can tossed them from the basked but lost their grip on the basket (fresh out of the fryer) and sent it flying into my back.

Let's just say the aftermath was heard in the hall. You don;t just go "oh it no big deal you threw 350 degree oil and fries at me without out a loud profanity-laced outburst. The fryer basket met an untimely demise outside. Thankfully I was wearing a chef coat at the time and was not burned by the basket only the oil drops than hit my neck.

[Victoria J]

How could the OP resist a pun about being Red handed ?

at least all of your burns are work related

my lastest scar runs the inside of my middle finger, from getting my dinner from the microwave.....

shuddup!!!!

OK - I've done worse. *looks round to make sure no ones listening*

I burnt my hand on the oven shelf getting a try out - not embarrassing so far. The back of my hand near the wrist hit the shelf, and as I yelled and pulled my hand away I flipped my hand, and burnt myself near the knuckles.

The worse hot plate accident I ever saw involved a co-worker at chili's and a tray of fajita pans. He was walking to his table with said tray and an unattended child was cruising through the restaurant and knocked into him, to avoid having the tray fall on a small baby on the end of the table he moved so that he "caught" the brunt of the fall...big, hot, sizzling mess - but the baby was okay.

Tell me the parents were at least apologetic and thankful - and didn't just get angry the baby was nearly hurt ? That's the sort of thing the parent's deserve to be sued for - what sort of idiot lets their child wander around to trip people up ?

Victoria J

[tollbaby]

The women here would not know about this...

Never fry bacon without a shirt on.

That's all.

Just never do it.

Oh yes they would. Done it, learned my lesson. Will never do it again.

[Darkwish]

I used to work at a company that manufactured modems and network cards. The solder would come in the form of a thick paste and then the whole thing would be run through large ovens that averaged 400C. For the most part, the only time you'd get burned is if you grabbed the circuit board fresh out of the oven. However, sometimes the boards would fall off in the middle of the oven and might not get noticed right away due to having to keep a half dozen machines going at once and they'd pile up, right in the middle of the oven. When this happened, we'd have to lift up the top of the oven (we never turned off anything other than the conveyors due because it would take HOURS for it to cool down), and pull out all the boards that had fallen off the conveyor. We didn't have gloves and the only really tools we had were a pair of tweezers and sometimes we'd have to literally lean most of the way into the ovens to try to get some of the boards out. Luckily there were no real injuries other than some burnt fingers, but lean into one of those ovens for several minutes and you'll never feel so "baked" in your life!

We also had soldering irons to fix any mistakes with the automated production. One time a coworker needed to change the tip of the soldering iron and pulled it out without bothering to turn it off! The idiot sat there holding it for about 5 seconds before the pain registered and he screamed and dropped it on the floor.

We also had a fun little device that would use hot air to melt the solder. It worked great when trying to solder chips with dozens of pins as it would melt all the solder at once. These things would melt solder within a second or two from about 4-6 inches away and could easily light paper on fire from the same distance. Remember this was using only heated air! Well, one day I finished using it and put it back into the cradle like we always do. I then turned to grab something and my sleeve managed to hook a small piece of metal where the air hose went into it and pulled it off the cradle. I turned back to try to get my sleeve unhooked before something bad happened... TOO LATE!!! It not got yanked off the cradle, but fell down the sleeve of my company issued smock, the hot tip of it landing on the underside of my arm, right by my elbow! Luckily I had the presence of mind to grab it by the handle and pull it out instead of just jumping back with it still attached to my sleeve. While the burn was a couple inches across, the worst parts were two spots where the tip had actually touched the skin, leaving two round holes in the skin. The scars have faded over the years, but for a while it looked like a vampire had bit me on the arm!

[Kogarashi]

Darkwish and Mattm04: ouch. Very ouch.

And I've certainly got my share of household injuries too. Plenty of burns from a hot glue gun, for one. Also from taking food out of the microwave, and splatters from the frying pan.

Not to mention the very occasional knife cut (I'm actually very good with knives, yay!). I've also cut myself on scissors (not with scissors; I think it was when I was curling ribbon), sliced myself open with an exacto knife while sharpening colored pencils (I usually use a pocketknife, but I'd misplaced it that day), and stabbed myself with a mandolin slicer. Yes, stabbed. The fleshy part of my thumb caught the corner of the straight blade while trying to remove it from the holder. My mom cut the very tip of her finger off on her mandolin slicer once. Seems to run in the family.

Don't even get me started on setting things on fire in the kitchen.

[LifeCarnie]

I had a pretty nice blister on my left hand when I learned the hard way that you do NOT touch anything under the hood of your car when the engine is warm from driving. But no, my stupid self had to put oil in right then and there and I couldn't be stealth and careful about it....I just had to go for it and grab that cap!

I did something dumber. I once put my hand up to a hot lawn mower muffler to check to see if it was still hot. I had a huge blister from that moment of lunacy.

[LifeCarnie]

The women here would not know about this...

Never fry bacon without a shirt on.

That's all.

Just never do it.

I have a co-worker who scalded himself with boiling hot water while cooking naked.

He had to be transported to the hospital by ambulance.

He's fine now, except for the embarrassment.

[Naaman]

My worst scars, pretty lame;

A full set of 'ladder burns' from bakery ovens - 6" oven with baking compartments 6" high, as you pull the tray out sometime it would slide and touch bare skin. Repeat a few time and it starts to look like a ladder.

Numerous fingertips when slicing vegetables

Blunt knife slipped when cutting, bounced off the table across the side of my middle finger - needed 3 stitches

Worst accident I heard about was from a temp chef who used to be Army. 36 hours of maneuvers which for them consisted of Unpack, cook, pack, move, unpack etc...
Dropped a spatula into the deep fryer and without thinking reached to 'catch it'.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

at least all of your burns are work related

my lastest scar runs the inside of my middle finger, from getting my dinner from the microwave.....

shuddup!!!!

My latest one came several months ago when trying to get a meatloaf out of the oven.

I was trying to grab it and one of my hands brushed up against the broiler element in the oven.

You can still see a faint deep pink strip across my left hand, just above the wrist and under my thumb.

[Andara Bledin]

The women here would not know about this...

Never fry bacon without a shirt on.

Heh. As you may have noticed, women cook without shirts on nearly as much as men. I've done it myself, but I heal really well, so I have no scars at all from frying sans shirt.

My only real burn scar is from the scalding soup I dumped in my lap one evening. I had blisters starting on the lower inside edge of my right breast, in an outward diagonal line along my ribs, and around the front and side of my right hip. I also had scalding, but no blisters, along the insides of both arms. That actually was more sensitive/painful than the blisters.

^-.-^

[depechemodefan]

I have a scar on my leg. When I was maybe 10, I picked up a basket of returnable coke bottles. I didn't realize one bottle was broken, and it cut my leg. I should have gotten stitches.

[mattm04]

Worst accident I heard about was from a temp chef who used to be Army. 36 hours of maneuvers which for them consisted of Unpack, cook, pack, move, unpack etc...
Dropped a spatula into the deep fryer and without thinking reached to 'catch it'.

Ouch. I cringe at how painful that must have been. Ouch. Ouch. And i thought a few grease splatters hurt. damn.

I was "volunteered" to help at my church to prepare food for a church dinner. Their are some senile old ladies who think they know everything about cooking their is to know. I accidentally dropped a knife. It broke....

SOL: what did you do?
Me: I accidentally dro....
SOL: Why didn't you try to catch it?
Me: It is stupid to even think that is a good idea.
SOL: I would have. I;m smart.
Me: ........*thinking: reallllly.... that is one of the dumbest thing I have ever heard*
SOL: what do you have to say for yourself!
Me: A broken knife is not worth a trip to the ER and surgery.
SOL: *give me dirty look and walks off*

The others in the kitchen were looking like WTF dis SOL just say.

[deafcat24]

I have two burn scars on my left arm from oven related instances.

The first one just below my elbow from hitting the top of the Inside of a 425 oven while checking a pizza. Kind of looks like an alien eye now.

The second one on the wrist, from hitting it on the grill of a 350 oven checking on the lasanga I was having that was left over from the night before. Took total of at least a month to heal altogether.

Worst part is?

Both happened BEFORE the meal was done cooking.