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23 Comments:
Baking. Don't remember what I was making, just the burn. I tapped the top rack with my forearm and gave myself a nice grill mark. I still have the burn scar to this day. The worst part was my mother gave my wife a bad look because she seemed to think it was my wife's fault. I'm not sure my mother would even admit to that now, but my wife and I have a running joke about it.
Husband at 8:13AM on 03/22/07
I was putting a skillet under the broiler for a bit and forgot that it would be hot when I took it out barehanded by the handle and put it atop the stove. It was reminiscent of Raiders of the Lost Ark when the medallion is burned into the villian's hand. I couldn't move my hand for a couple days. No scar though. I've had countless burns since, but none quite as bad as that.
pezbabypez at 8:53AM on 03/22/07
I was cooking at a friend's tiny New York apartment, and went to pull a tray of two chicken breasts out of the oven. Unfortunately, the tray was one of those flimsy disposable kinds (she never cooks...this was the virgin use of her oven!) and it bent, forcing me to drop my arm onto the open oven door to save the chicken - it was ugly. There is still a mark about 3 inches long on my forearm, but it mostly blends in now.
selizara at 9:25AM on 03/22/07
Baking brownies with my mom when I was 7. I was smelling the pan, full of chocolate goodness, piping hot from the oven and the underside of my chin touched down on the glass edge. I still have a slight scar there to this day. Ouch!
Erin at 9:51AM on 03/22/07
It was proudly from deep frying chicken.
josh! at 11:16AM on 03/22/07
topless bacon frying. d'oh..
wickedlady at 12:24PM on 03/22/07
I was making caramel corn at my job on the beach and I didn't realize how quickly the metal tubs flipped onto the table... I still have the scar on my arm...
pbisNOTmyname at 12:40PM on 03/22/07
Pouring gravy through a sieve.
LindaD at 12:42PM on 03/22/07
This wasn't my first, but it was by far my worst: I was working as a baker at a pie shop. Things were busy and my oven was full of piping hot pies. So I unloaded a whole bunch onto my rolling bakery rack and rolled it towards the front of the store. I quickly started unloading pies onto a counter, since I had more to pull from the oven. As I tried to balance a blackberry pie along the edge of the counter, it slipped, and I instinctively reached out with my left hand to lift it back up. Unfortunately, I was a bit slow, and instead submerged my entire left hand into a bubbling sugary blackberry pie. It was covered in second-degree burns and I couldn't bend my fingers or use it in the pie shop for over a week. No scars physical scars though, only emotional.
megnut at 1:28PM on 03/22/07
Fetching an open-faced grilled cheese from the toaster over broiler sometime between the age of 3 and 6. My finger touched the wire rack, causing my reflexes to quickly lift my hand away, and BAM!, I singed the delicate skin on the back of my hand on those ceiling-mounted heaters. Double whammy :(
à la mode at 1:29PM on 03/22/07
I was a small child and my mom opened the oven door to see if it was hot enough. She reached her hand in and I, being young and impressionable, did the same. Only she just stuck her hand in briefly while I decided to touch the rack and promptly burned several fingertips. Ouch!
AuntJone at 1:33PM on 03/22/07
I was working in the kitchen of an Assisted Livng Facility. I was pulliing some rolls, I think, out of a samll warming oven which was hotter than i expected. Right as my hand went in I backhanded the upper element and put a nice brun across my right hand below the knuckles. I have the scar to this day
Foodee at 1:45PM on 03/22/07
I put a really hot pot on a stainless steel counter top and then rested my arm on the counter top. Ooooops. There will be a little dark splotch on my right forearm for the rest of my liiiiife.
roboppy at 2:43PM on 03/22/07
My first burn was probably when I was a short order cook when I was 14. I don't remember many burns, but I'm sure there was one there somewhere! The worst burn I had was working at McDonald's in high school. The fry baskets were supposed to be rotated, so you wouldn't put cold fries into a hot basket, but in this case the basket wasn't rotated. I put a bag of fries in, and grabbed the basket to put it into the fryer...hitting my forearm with the end of the hot basket...I had the basket marks burned into my arm for a couple of years after that!
Otherwise I think I burn myself on a nearly monthly basis just with my home cooking...I'm a bit of a klutz! lol
mepolo at 3:54PM on 03/22/07
Baking macaroons as a nine year old!
turkiyaki at 5:50PM on 03/22/07
It was my very first foray into cooking--I was probably about 3 years old, and with the inimitable logic of a small child, reasoned that by cooking a saltine in a pan on the stovetop, I could make it all nice and warm and melty (like I said, small child logic). Thankfully, my mom came back into the kitchen before the flames jumped out of the pan...
msmla at 9:39PM on 03/22/07
While working at Six Flags Great Adventure, I was learning how to make funnel cakes, and while moving around the trays to make them, I splashed some really hot grease on my forearm. Whew, that hurt! My co-workers laughed and said it happens to everyone as they gave me a cold compress to put on it.
Yoshi at 4:08AM on 03/23/07
I was so little I can't remember how old I was, but I couldn't have been more than three.
I was (for some weird reason) sitting on the counter close to an electric skillet with something cooking in it. Fried chicken, I think. Anyway, I guess I got tired because I leaned over and rested my forearm on the edge of the pan. It was burned so badly that it scabbed over. I had a rounded L-shaped scar on the inside of my right forearm for a long time.
I must have been a tough (and stupid) kid. I drank turpentine and over-dosed on baby asprins before I started kindergarten. We don't even want to talk about what happened when I decided to shave my legs with an old-fashioned "safety" razor. *rolls eyes*
Calichef at 8:15AM on 03/23/07
I touched my forearm to the top of the oven. I was taking a roasting pan of chicken out of the oven and I had mitts on, but I was wearing short sleeves and I got scorched! I have a nice white scar to show for it. So stupid! :)
recipegrl at 10:55AM on 03/23/07
Making tea for my sick mom when I was 5. I have a very small scar on the knuckle of my left ring finger.
On another note, I worked at a bakery for years. The only time that I ever burned myself was during the 2 weeks that my boss was on vacation. I don't know if it was because I was under more stress or what..
monica at 5:03AM on 03/24/07
This is certainly not my first burn, merely my most creative. I was cooking something on our electric stove and needed to put the food on a plate, but didn't have room anywhere but on one of the other burners. My mother pointed out that she'd rather I not put a corelle plate down on a hot burner (they explode!) and that I should test that burner to make sure it wasn't on. I was so confident that the burner wasn't on that I put my flat palm down on the burner... and felt my skin singe and bubble for a split second before my reflexes kicked in. I had concentric circular burns! It was bizarre, but I don't have any scars.
The kicker on this one is that I was in tenth grade, and had chemistry class the next day. My hand was bandaged, but somehow I was still the one who handled the bunsen burner... My lab partner was afraid of fire, but clearly I was not!
S. Cornell at 9:12AM on 03/28/07
When I was a little girl, I was making E-Z Pop Popcorn and got the burn of my life on my middle right finger. I still have the scar to show for it.
love_to_bake at 9:12PM on 03/28/07
The first food-related burn I got... I'd have to say was when I was about to enjoy a nice medium-sized pepperoni-and-cheese pizza at Pizza Hut.
Silly me, I didn't realize the steam flowing from the cheese meant that it was hot.
I took one bite and the cheese (and the sauce trapped beneath the cheese) caused nice second-to-third degree burns to the roof of my mouth, and scorched my tongue. I had strips of skin hanging painfully down from the roof of my mouth.
darkfyreaol at 12:01PM on 04/18/07