[m brown]

Waiter comes into the kitchen, "Ohhh, what's this?" then, without warning dips finger into the pot to taste. The pot contained just off the flame caramel. OUCH! burned both hand then mouth! BAD.

[momoreg]

Guess they won't be doing that again!

[Katherine]

Here's a link, a news story from an English-language Japanese newspaper I read.
http://www.mainichi.co.jp/english/ne...03/news08.html

[Isa]

Now I know why I never used pressure cooker, those things are dangerous.

Iron Chefs take note!!!
Sisi getting back to your comment on my post, these injuries were all over the course of a career. I am not as accident prone as the post might indicate. And as a last note, I remember the news last year in some part of Pa. a temp. was working in a meat processing plant on his first day and somehow managed to get his meat hook caught in the industrial grinder and pulled him in head first! Unsavable, him not the meat. Isn't that what the stores call a "loss leader"?

[shroomgirl]

Chrose that was really bad....lose leader...

chrose - eeeaach! feh! feh!

Re: the pressure cooker incident. I've been using a pressure cooker at home for several years, and (knock wood) haven't had any problems at all with it. The older ones were not as safe as those currently available.

This is one of those appliances (is it an appliance? not sure) that is really kind of non-intuitive . . . you really have to pay attention to the instructions as you go along. It took me a little while to get comfortable with it, and I still have to sort acclimate myself again every year (I only use it in the winter).

That being said, though, with a pressure cooker, you can come home with the ingredients for stew in a grocery bag, chop, cut and prep all of the ingredients, and still have an excellent meal on the table in an hour-and-a-half.

C'mon, if you're brave enough to deep-fry a turkey, y'all can give a li'l ole pressure cooker a chance . . .

i have a "nifty" scar the exact design of a fry basket from my days as a fry cook at kfc a co workers wasn't paying attention and Taged me in the lower back so now I have a 8x6 scar in the perfect checkerboard design just above my belt.... my pointer finger on the guide hand is a littel lopsided from cutting crutons the tip is all lopsided....and i have no fingerprints on two of my fingers from grabbing things from the flat top...is it me or does burns not get as noticed after a while and when you go home someone asks what this or that scar is and you just don't know where they all come from anymore????

[shroomgirl]

Gigglingg.....when I teach my students all say I have asbestos fingers....yep....it doesn't affect me as much as it did when I was much younger.

My friend accidently put her hand in the meatgrinder and chopped all her fingers off.
True story.
danielle

[Nick.Shu]

generally, burns heal and anything off the body can be reattached - there has even been a hand transplant over here.

Pressure cookers, hehe, just make sure the bloody thing is well maintained and securely locked down (the lid)

Asbestos fingers - not a good sign, this means that over the years, you've managed to burn out the nerve endings in ones fingers.

Dude sucked into mincer, gees what can i say, except maybe, that the mince from that particular place has been renamed "soylent green"

[Live_to_cook]

Y'all ought to make this thread required reading for all the people who aren't quite sure if they want to be kitchen pros or not. Us amateurs blunder just as often probably, but at least 1. we're using smaller quantities 2. we can stop cooking and dedicate our time to feeling sorry for ourselves.

All too gruesome for me. Fortunately, I haven't had anything to compare with some of these stories. I still have all my parts, including my appendix.

New pressure cookers are great. I like the Magefesa. Very safe. You can get it through www.magefesausa.com. Great pot. Pressure cooker is to braising as microwave is to oven. Can perfectly cook a 4lb. corned beef in one hour.

Some of you folks had better get asbestos/kevlar full body armor before you go back into the kitchen.

Many years ago, I was working at a hotel and I was the only woman in the kitchen. I'm not very tall and I was pulling bacon out of the convection oven. What I remember: I was going for the last pan on top and the pan tilted toward me. I said "OH S*I*!!" And stuck the pan back in the oven, before I knew it, the guy behind me ripped my chef coat off of me. It being Texas and the summer I wasn't wearing a t-shirt. It was soo quiet...finally someone yelled "Is that from Victoria's Secret?"
Same job: I was cleaning the flat top, standing on a milk crate (so I could reach the darn thing.) when the brick snapped in half (I didn't know thw towel trick ) and slid my hands from the front all the way to the back. I'd never cried so much in my life. But the nice folks at the hospital gave me plenty of painkillers and Chef gave me the week off.

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[Nick.Shu]

actually, one of the most horrific stories that i know of, refers back to a apprentice cleaning out a corn flake roasting chamber.

Apparently, he was inside this silo cleaning it out and the automatic timer went off,,,,.

Needless to say, kelloggs had to pay a rather large stipend to his surviving next of kin.