OT - PSA - Keep your focus

tarheelmatt

Well, yesterday I got the wild hair to make the tomatoe pie I posted. I was running behind and was rushing to do that and get dinner cooked. 

I was making some rice, sous vide carrots, and had chicken tenderloins on the medium.  

The crust I made for the tomatoe pie. I stuck a skillet on my crust for weight because I didn't have any dried beans. Good idea with the pan. 

Crust was done and I pull it out. No problem.  I turn around , do something for the rice, and turn back around to remove the pan and didn't have a towel over it like normal. I grab the pan, pick it up, and I knew it was bad. Dropped the SOB ASAP and hit the fridge for mustard.  Squirted mustard all over my hand because I didn't know where all I burned myself. 

Hurt a little, but kept the mustard fresh on it. Never blistered beyond this picture and it doesn't hurt and isn't sore. 

It's been a while since I've burned myself. I like to think I know my way around a kitchen, this brings you to reality quickly. 

Keep your focus boys. Our hobby is and can be dangerous.  

What's weird about the picture is the mustard stained the places where I was burned mostly. 

johnmitchell

Wow Matt and you don't even drink.. That looks like a nasty burn..

bgebrent

Damn Matt!  Ouch!  

Legume

Never heard of mustard before, what does it do?

Dondgc

Ouch! Hope that heals up ok.  Thanks for the reminder. 

northGAcock

Ouch....bet it didn't take you long to figure out you had done wrong though. Those blisters will be more of a nuisance that painful for a week or two. I did something similar a few weeks back....thumb only tough. Be careful where you stick that hand for a while.

bgebrent

Reminds me of the danger when cleaning the Blackstone.  Also requires focus.

tarheelmatt

Legume said:

Never heard of mustard before, what does it do?

To be honest, I've never looked into it.  Just done it.  Note, just did a little Google search and appears to indicate the effect of less pain and minor blistering.  

For 6.5 years I worked in a restaurant.  Got burnt a lot there as it was a seafood restaurant. 

Everyone swore to put mustard on the burns immediately.  Usually the blister will grow right after it happened, but not with the mustard.  

tarheelmatt

Honestly, I have full functionality of the hand right now.  The blisters aren't that large.  In fact, I gave my little girl a bath last night.  

tarheelmatt

bgebrent said:

Reminds me of the danger when cleaning the Blackstone.  Also requires focus.

You got that right.  It'll get you in a heart beat!  

nolaegghead

I hope you are right handed.   Doesn't look too bad. Good thing we have mono-synapic responses or it would be worse.

dldawes1

Oooh That hurts looking at it !!!  

I've been wearing the silicon gloves a lot since I bought them....they have saved me a few times just over the past couple months.

Hopefully, it'll heal up quick !

fence0407

Glad it wasn't worse and thanks for the reminder. I once went to pull a pizza out of the oven. Opened the oven door with the glove hand and grabbed the pizza pan with my bare hand  ...not sure why. Wasn't too bad but wish I would've known about the mustard trick at the time. From then on I've used gloves on both hands. 

Thatgrimguy

Burns like that are so strange. They hurt like you will die all night, then in the morning it's just some blisters and no residual pain. So strange!!! Glad you didn't get it any worse. Cast Iron skillets are my bain. I have burnt myself more times than I care to admit with a similar action.

tarheelmatt

Thatgrimguy said:

Burns like that are so strange. They hurt like you will die all night, then in the morning it's just some blisters and no residual pain. So strange!!! Glad you didn't get it any worse. Cast Iron skillets are my bain. I have burnt myself more times than I care to admit with a similar action.

Can hear my friend telling me in his Greek voice "that's experience Matthew".   He owned the restaurant I worked at for those years.  He was like a father figure to me.   Anytime I cut or burned myself he'd say that to me.  

Try the mustard next time @Thatgrimguy.  See what you think.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Focus is key ....

Worst burn I ever had was a cherry red electric coil burner on a stove.  It was on a center island.  I went to lean back while talking and set my hand smack in the middle of it.  Pretty cool spiral burn pattern across my whole hand.

I use honey for burns, but will try mustard next time.

Canugghead

Ouch, glad you got it under control. Have to remember mustard next time.

JohnnyTarheel

Yowza!!!!  Hate that happened..... Keep on keepin on my man!!!

NC_Egghead

Ouch! Glad it's not as bad as it could be. Thanks for the tip with the mustard. 

buzd504

tarheelmatt said:

Legume said:

Never heard of mustard before, what does it do?

To be honest, I've never looked into it.  Just done it.  Note, just did a little Google search and appears to indicate the effect of less pain and minor blistering.  

For 6.5 years I worked in a restaurant.  Got burnt a lot there as it was a seafood restaurant. 

Everyone swore to put mustard on the burns immediately.  Usually the blister will grow right after it happened, but not with the mustard.  

Why would you get burned more in a seafood restaurant?

NPHuskerFL

Burn?  Sure sure. You'll go blind  
No bueno. Heal up quickly Matt. 

tarheelmatt

buzd504 said:

tarheelmatt said:

Legume said:

Never heard of mustard before, what does it do?

To be honest, I've never looked into it.  Just done it.  Note, just did a little Google search and appears to indicate the effect of less pain and minor blistering.  

For 6.5 years I worked in a restaurant.  Got burnt a lot there as it was a seafood restaurant. 

Everyone swore to put mustard on the burns immediately.  Usually the blister will grow right after it happened, but not with the mustard.  

Why would you get burned more in a seafood restaurant?

Fish camps in the south are primarily fried. 10 double deep fryers helped get food out. Every night I had to clean those fryers. One night, guys were cleaning the floor the same time I was cleaning fryers, I slipped,  dropped the pot of hot grease right on my legs. I got an entire gallon jar of mustard and rubbed on the bottom half of my legs. 

DoubleEgger

Did you work at the Mayflower?

BBQbutler

did that once before pulling a 500 degree oven grate out to slide my pizza on a stone ( before the BGE) -- i was gonna use a towel like Emeril!  towel slipped off as soon as i grabbed the grate!  same two fingers burned me..  gloves/miss ever since  

tarheelmatt

DoubleEgger said:

Did you work at the Mayflower?

No, at Skippers Seafood at hwy 64 and hwy 109. Huge place, seats 300. 

DoubleEgger

tarheelmatt said:

DoubleEgger said:

Did you work at the Mayflower?

No, at Skippers Seafood at hwy 64 and hwy 109. Huge place, seats 300. 

Oh yeah. I know where Skippers is. 

Hans61

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