Klumsy Kitchen Kapers

Terry Pulliam Burd said:

Damn, I hate it when do something clumsy or just poorly thought out in
the kitchen. Tonight I just burned the h*ll out of the tip of my right
hand ring finger while tossing potato slices into hot oil. I had
carelessly let the oil get too hot and, of course, the first few
slices to land in the skillet just spattered oil droplets everywhere.
It's blistering a bit and I'm keyboarding carefully <eyeball rolling>
I had sliced the potatoes with my mandoline, which I am oh, so very,
very careful with, so why I don't exercise the same degree of
vigilance with exceedingly hot oil, I haven't a clue.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"Most vigitaryans I iver see looked enough like their food to be
classed as cannybals."

Finley Peter Dunne (1900)

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

How do you treat a oil spattered burn? If I remember correctly, dad
once told me to cover it with soda powder... instead of run it in cold
water... I don't know how well that will work. For a normal hot burn I
just run it under the tap.

Did the potatoese come out good?

On Sat 25 Mar 2006 07:45:22p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Terry Pulliam
Burd?

Quoted message said:

Damn, I hate it when do something clumsy or just poorly thought out in
the kitchen. Tonight I just burned the h*ll out of the tip of my right
hand ring finger while tossing potato slices into hot oil. I had
carelessly let the oil get too hot and, of course, the first few
slices to land in the skillet just spattered oil droplets everywhere.
It's blistering a bit and I'm keyboarding carefully <eyeball rolling>
I had sliced the potatoes with my mandoline, which I am oh, so very,
very careful with, so why I don't exercise the same degree of
vigilance with exceedingly hot oil, I haven't a clue.

Major Ouch!!! So sorry to hear that. How did you treat it? Ice followed by
aloe work well.

--
Wayne Boatwright @¿@¬
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Quoted message said:

Damn, I hate it when do something clumsy or just poorly thought out in
the kitchen. Tonight I just burned the h*ll out of the tip of my right
hand ring finger while tossing potato slices into hot oil. I had
carelessly let the oil get too hot and, of course, the first few
slices to land in the skillet just spattered oil droplets everywhere.
It's blistering a bit and I'm keyboarding carefully <eyeball rolling>
I had sliced the potatoes with my mandoline, which I am oh, so very,
very careful with, so why I don't exercise the same degree of
vigilance with exceedingly hot oil, I haven't a clue.

Ouch. Consider it a battle scar. Keep it antiseptic and dry, and try
to ignore it. You'll not soon be doing that again.

Terry Pulliam Burd said:

Damn, I hate it when do something clumsy or just poorly thought out in
the kitchen. Tonight I just burned the h*ll out of the tip of my right
hand ring finger while tossing potato slices into hot oil. I had
carelessly let the oil get too hot and, of course, the first few
slices to land in the skillet just spattered oil droplets everywhere.
It's blistering a bit and I'm keyboarding carefully <eyeball rolling>
I had sliced the potatoes with my mandoline, which I am oh, so very,
very careful with, so why I don't exercise the same degree of
vigilance with exceedingly hot oil, I haven't a clue.

Well, at least you didn't pull the ultimate stupid thing I did years
ago.... dump smoking hot oil into the toilet to discard. Why did I
even begin to think that was ok? I was a teenager. End of story.
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:45:22 -0800, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

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Well, at least you didn't pull the ultimate stupid thing I did years
ago.... dump smoking hot oil into the toilet to discard. Why did I
even begin to think that was ok? I was a teenager. End of story.
--

oh no it's not. . .did the toilet explode?
Janet

I hope that there are no old southern blacks reading this ng, as the
spelling of the header's used to be a way of proclaiming KKK affiliation.

There's a scene in the simpsons where crusty the clown is performing at
the Apollo theater and his stage set is great big letters spelling
Krustys Klown Karnival.
---
JL

sf said:

Terry Pulliam Burd said:

Damn, I hate it when do something clumsy or just poorly thought out in
the kitchen. Tonight I just burned the h*ll out of the tip of my right
hand ring finger while tossing potato slices into hot oil. I had
carelessly let the oil get too hot and, of course, the first few
slices to land in the skillet just spattered oil droplets everywhere.
It's blistering a bit and I'm keyboarding carefully <eyeball rolling>
I had sliced the potatoes with my mandoline, which I am oh, so very,
very careful with, so why I don't exercise the same degree of
vigilance with exceedingly hot oil, I haven't a clue.

Well, at least you didn't pull the ultimate stupid thing I did years
ago.... dump smoking hot oil into the toilet to discard. Why did I
even begin to think that was ok? I was a teenager. End of story.

Janet Bostwick said:

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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:45:22 -0800, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

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Quoted message said:

Well, at least you didn't pull the ultimate stupid thing I did years
ago.... dump smoking hot oil into the toilet to discard. Why did I
even begin to think that was ok? I was a teenager. End of story.
--

oh no it's not. . .did the toilet explode?

Well, you know that oil and water don't mix, right? Hot oil, cold
water.... the toilet was in tact, but I ended up with first, second
and third degree burns on the half of my body that wasn't protected by
the door (I don't remember why I tried to hide behind the door instead
of just getting out of the WC). The "rest" of the story is that I
went to the opening night of the re-release of Gone With the Wind
(late '60s) wearing a white dress and white bandages on both legs and
one arm. Needless to say, I was the talk of the entire movie theater
that evening.
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Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

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Janet Bostwick said:

"sf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:45:22 -0800, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

snip

Quoted message said:

Well, at least you didn't pull the ultimate stupid thing I did years
ago.... dump smoking hot oil into the toilet to discard. Why did I
even begin to think that was ok? I was a teenager. End of story.
--

oh no it's not. . .did the toilet explode?

Well, you know that oil and water don't mix, right? Hot oil, cold
water.... the toilet was in tact, but I ended up with first, second
and third degree burns on the half of my body that wasn't protected by
the door (I don't remember why I tried to hide behind the door instead
of just getting out of the WC). The "rest" of the story is that I
went to the opening night of the re-release of Gone With the Wind
(late '60s) wearing a white dress and white bandages on both legs and
one arm. Needless to say, I was the talk of the entire movie theater
that evening.
--

Oh, no! I didn't think of you getting hit by hot grease. Gosh that must
have hurt. Well, maybe somebody learned something by reading here -- you
think? Hope so.
Janet

Janet Bostwick said:

Oh, no! I didn't think of you getting hit by hot grease. Gosh that must
have hurt.

It hurt a LOT and for a long time. It was years before the scars
disappeared, however I still have spots on my skin that are don't
"tan" well - which were the worst of the damaged parts of my skin.

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Well, maybe somebody learned something by reading here -- you
think? Hope so.

Hopefully, no one here is that dumb.
🙂
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Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

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Janet Bostwick said:

Oh, no! I didn't think of you getting hit by hot grease. Gosh that
must
have hurt.

It hurt a LOT and for a long time. It was years before the scars
disappeared, however I still have spots on my skin that are don't
"tan" well - which were the worst of the damaged parts of my skin.

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Well, maybe somebody learned something by reading here -- you
think? Hope so.

Hopefully, no one here is that dumb.
🙂

You don't have to be 'dumb' to do something like that, you only have to have
your mind temporarily on a different planet.
Janet

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Quoted message said:

Damn, I hate it when do something clumsy or just poorly thought out in
the kitchen. Tonight I just burned the h*ll out of the tip of my right
hand ring finger

<snipped>
I had sliced the potatoes with my mandoline, which I am oh, so very,

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very careful with>

Seems like a good story to introduce myself with since it displays my own
clumisiness even though I know better and has bearing on a recent thread:

I was preparing potatoes to fry with my mandolin but you know how it so hard
to start potatoes going with the guard so I started the first potato by hand
and then switched to the quard to finish it off. Then the next one but
before I could switch to the guard DD #2 came in and in the commotion I just
kept on slicing and didn't even notice that the tip of my finger had joined
the potatoes on the plate (eww) until DD #3 screamed.

Knowing the usual wait at our local (Pacific NW about 30 minutes from
Vancouver, BC in the US) emergency room I decided to apply pressure and hold
my arm over my head. After a half an hour and increasingly hysterical DDs
with no noticible decrease in blood gushing, I agreed to go to the emergency
room.

This was a week day, early evening (not a rush time in other words) and
after 4 hours during which we had been given bandages to soak up the blood
that was still flowing freely we were seen. I was given a shot for the pain
and a clotting material plus bandage. Time seen by professionals = 10
min.at most. Time in emergency department = 5 hours. Cost = nearly $1000.

I admit it was not life threatening but jeeze! Next time, I'll apply my own
bandages. And if I even use the mandolin again (it's been 6 months and my
knife skills have never been better) I'll use the damn guard from the first.

Also, the triage nurse was very confused when I told her I did it on a
mandolin. She couldn't figure out how a musical instrument cut off my
finger!

Blessings,
Ann

On 25 Mar 2006 19:48:10 -0800, "dee" <[email hidden]> rummaged
among random neurons and opined:

Quoted message said:

How do you treat a oil spattered burn? If I remember correctly, dad
once told me to cover it with soda powder... instead of run it in cold
water... I don't know how well that will work. For a normal hot burn I
just run it under the tap.

I just grabbed an ice cube real fast and kept it there until it was
about gone.

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Did the potatoese come out good?

They were excellent - it's another one of my "guilty pleasures." Just
scrub the potatoes well, slice 'em, cook 'em in bacon grease with s &
p.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"Most vigitaryans I iver see looked enough like their food to be
classed as cannybals."

Finley Peter Dunne (1900)

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"