Categories: general
Date: 19 November 2008 22:29:47
So yesterday I went food shopping and decided to treat myself to a pizza which was half price. I went to put it in the oven, come dinner time, and found my housemate was roasting garlic in a saucepan, in the oven. After asking him about it, he said I could take it out because it was finished. So I got my oven gloves on, and put the pan on the hob. 30 seconds later I realise I need that hob for my mushrooms, so I pick up the saucepan with my bare hand. Well, nearly. I cried out before I'd lifted the pan. After a few minutes with my hand under the tap, I go back to my cooking my dinner. My housemates had kindly put my pizza in the oven for me, so I cook my mushrooms, and then its time to take out the pizza. I put my oven gloves on, open the oven, move the garlic bread to a lower shelf, move my hand back towards the pizza, and my wrists touches the pizza shelf. Which has been in a hot oven for nearly an hour. Ouch. By this point I was just feeling so stupid for managing to burn myself twice in such quick succession. I held my wrist underneath the tap for a few minutes too, this one was more painful than the first one. When I went out that evening, I had to take a cold, wet flannel with me.
Today I was in work, but my burns were looking much better. You can hardly see the first one, I think I let go of the handle quickly enough. The one on my wrist is red, but it hasn't blistered massively like I expected it to. It was slightly sore and irritating at times, especially underneath my gloves. But overall I just felt silly for doing it, especially the second time!
NB: Thanks for the comments - have sorted my link categories, although Ian's * idea didn't work. Will tackle the rest another time.