The moral here is not to rest hot pans against bare skin

[james_davis_nicoll]

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[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

A very important lesson. I've learned similar things in similar ways. There was the time I learned why, when lighting an old-fashioned oven, one lights the match and then turns on the gas...

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Owie. : (

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

Or vice-versa. I'm also good at not sufficiently internalizing the fact that the inside of an open oven door is often *considerably* hotter than the outside.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

How many times have you learned this particular lesson?

(I will not say how many times I have learned similar ones, myself.)

[magedragonfire.livejournal.com]

Alas, sometimes there's just not anything else conveniently close by that you can set the pan on.

(Only half-serious. I suffered a few similar wounds when I was in pastry school.)

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

To be fair, all we know is that your skin isn't heat-resistant. I may well be fine.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

I think the moral here is to get thicker skin.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: dude.

[seawasp]

Is this not a lesson you have supposedly learned previously?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

One summer when my brother and I were kids we'd stay up late watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and sometimes we'd make pancakes. One night my brother, after resting the metal spatula on the grill top, says 'I wonder if this is hot?' and presses it against my back.

It was.

He got in a lot of trouble for that one.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

The worst is when a cat smells the cooked meat, and comes and licks it.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Ew ew ew. I suspect you are right - but I think I would reframe it as my cat's attempt to "kiss it better". Rose glasses view, I know, but the other is just ... no. :)

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

The smell of burning flesh is always distinct. Scars are reminders.