[AfterThought]

Story 1
Two summers ago I was making a dinner for the family. I was chopping up fresh mint and going at a pretty good pace. My dad came into the kitchen behind me and startled me. I chopped down onto my thumb and about 5mm into my thumb nail.

That didn't hurt. What hurt was having to remove a quarter of the nail and purposely cutting into healthy nail so blood wouldn't build up behind my nail.

Story 2
I just bought my dad a new BBQ this past summer. Our previous BBQ was in such bad condition that I'd describe it as a grillbomb, it was so worn down and breaking that we were sometimes scared to start it. One summer we were having trouble starting the darn thing and the gas was on low for quite some time while starting (2 mins or so). We turn off the gas and my dad and I are both leaning over the grill to see if the starter is working and we can't tell.

I walk away and tell my dad that I'm getting matches. I walk two steps away, my dad turns the gas back on while looking over grill still and pushes the starter one last time. WOOOOOOOOSH!

My dad didn't have eyelashes or eyebrows for the rest of the summer.

[shroomgirl]

Gruesome....funny I'm moving into a new catering kitchen this week and just finished picking up bandaids, burn pads, hydorgen peroxide, shtuff a few hours prior to rereading this thread......I feel like I need to go get turnicates, defibulators, basically hard core equipment after reading this. Oh, there is a MAJOR hospital 6 blocks down so if I can make it down the 3 flts of stairs and to the car everything is hunky dory.

[epicous]

Yesterday I was cleaning the sharp arms of a power food processor, but I did not realize that it was connected to current, though on ' turn off '.

[Blade55440]

Originally Posted by Isa

Funny thing Chrose, this weekend I was thinking about starting a topic on a simmilar subject. See I burned myself with sugar, 311°F, and was wondering what was everyone's favourite method for burn treatment. I ended up spending the rest of the day with my finger on ice.

A number of years ago I was making brownies. Butter was frozen hard solid. Try to cut a chunk and ended up cutting the tip of my finger off, about half the nail. Funny thing is at first I thought it was just a regular cut until I saw the tip of finger in the pan. That's when I kind of panic, couldn't stop the bleeding. A trip to ER and my finger was back in place.

Sugar burns are just WONDERFUL aren't they? I just recently burned myself with some Isomalt while putting together a display piece for a project... it's an instanteous kind of pain too. yeeowch. As for burn treatment, I prefer cold running water and NO BURN GEL, that stuff sucks and just insulates the heat in if you ask me.

As for finger cuts, is it just me, or does it seem like you hit a vein everytime you cut your finger. I've taken the tip off my right pinky now twice (scary it's the SAME finger no?), and even some spray-on clotter could slow this thing down. I finally got it wrapped and in a cot and by the end of class I thought I'd put on a red bandage.