Ow.

By Lena on November 17th, 2009
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You know how you never use an oven mitt with a lid that is on a stove-top pan?  Because, the lid isn’t hot and everything?

Well,

Lydia was making dinner tonight and she had one of those pans with a lid on it that you usually put on the stove in the oven.  So she took it out of the oven with mitts and put it on the stove.  However, she obviously forgot that it was hot because ten seconds later she had her hand under cold water because she had burned herself trying to take the lid off without the mitt.  That was bad enough.  But she tossed me the mitt so I could take care of the pan, which I did.

Five seconds later  I joined her at the faucet because I’d forgotten the lid was hot and tried picking it up with my bare hand.

:roll:

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By Chels B on 11.17.09 7:48 pm

Wow. You guys sound way to much like me. Did you pick up the “non-brainy-ness” at my house today? ;-)


By Josiah Woltersdorf on 11.17.09 7:50 pm

Is this a new blog look? And that IS funny. hope you guys are all right…


By Rebekah on 11.17.09 8:41 pm

Ouch!! Sounds painful! Hope your hands heal fast.


By Galena on 11.17.09 9:48 pm

Chels: No, you’re free of guilt – we’re always like this (or at least I am). ;-)

Josiah: Sort of… I changed it in August.

Rebekah: Thanks. Mine didn’t touch it too long so I’m fine. Lydia’s burns will probably last a little longer.


By Lydia on 11.17.09 10:30 pm

Heh…that was a very painful experience and yet sooo funny at the same time. In a moment of complete absentmindedness I lifted the red-hot lid off a pan. And very quickly dropped it again after my entire hand had a shock spasm. I spent the next ten minutes with my three singed fingers under the faucet and as Galena related, she shortly joined me ;) .

I had just a moment before handed the mitt to Galena when I turned from the sink and saw her lift the _very_ hot lid with her bare hand just as I had done. My (too late) verbal warning and her hand’s own shock spasm and the next 5 sec. found us with both of our left hands under the sink in a midst of giggles at our stupidity and ows because of our pain.

Three hours later the nerves in my blistered finger-tips are still screaming. Even though I kept my left hand in ice water the entire time I was playing through the top part of a Beethoven movement. Ouch. Typing probably isn’t making them any better…;)


By Benjamin on 11.18.09 8:49 pm

Ouch! That’s no fun. I’ve done things similar to that except it usually involves the grill in some way…like stepping barefoot on a live coal. :)




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