Today, I learned that just because the actual part of the pan that does touch the stove isn't hot doesn't mean that the handle won't give you third degree burns, a broken nose from passing out from the pain, and an expensive trip to the emergency room. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was cleaning a pan. I turned the water on, and it was super hot. My reaction was to slam my hand down. On a knife. So, not only do I have a burned hand, but there's also a huge cut on it from the knife. FML
Today, I went to kiss my girlfriend on the neck while she was cooking on the stove. Apparently I scared her and now I have a nice burn mark on my head from the hot frying pan she hit me with. FML
Today, I got burned, all because the toaster scared me while I was holding a pot of boiling water. FML
Today, while cooking, I managed to burn my finger. I quickly turned the tap on and ran my finger under cold water, but apparently someone had just used the hot tap, because boiling water flooded out onto my nicely scalded finger. FML
Today, I was in a hurry to get something out of the oven, so I quickly grabbed my roommate's only oven mitt and grabbed the pan in the oven. It didn't take long to figure out there was a hole in it when my thumb hit the hot pan. FML
Today, I learned the hard way that my oven mitt has a hole. Time to get a new one, whenever my finger stops burning. FML
Today, I was cooking. I leaned over the stove to preheat the oven, and burned my nipple on a pot of boiling water. I also have a teething son who is breastfeeding. FML
Today, my kitchen is trying to kill me. So far, I've hit my head three times on cupboards that opened themselves, cut open my hand on the microwave door when it slammed shut, and burned my cheek with the "heat-proof" oven mitt when I pushed the hair off my face. FML
Today, I spilt a very hot cup of tea all over a burn I got yesterday from spilling a very hot cup of tea. FML
Today, I managed to spill piping hot oil all over my kitchen floor, thinking it was too hot to clean right then and there I left it for a few hours to cool. I forgot about it, and slipped over in it bashing my head into my cupboard handle. FML
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bieberfied 4
Looks like that pan was too hot to handle!
DocBastard 40
Sounds like your cooking didn't exactly pan out.
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Comments (135)
kcTheGreat 2
Op just worded this wrong. You can't get 3rd degree burns from a pan that isn't hot. You can however, get 3rd degree burns from a pan that you simply THINK isn't hot.
foreveriowa 16
I work in a kitchen, use a dry towel to pick up the handle... completely dry towel! or you will have a pan handle burned into your hand.
whiterabbit420 4
So somehow the handle got upwards of 600 degrees without the pan getting hot at all?!!? YDI it OP for not knowing how to use a pan.
Epikouros 32
Something could have been cooking next to it.
Toothbrush12 9
Well, okay, OP could have avoided this. But I hardly think that he deserves so much pain just because they were careless. However, a third-degree burn burns away the nerves beneath the skin (I can vaguely remember learning this a couple of years ago at guides), so they're not meant to hurt. Is it the area AROUND the skin that hurts with a third degree burn? Anyway, I hope that you get well soon, OP!
whythey 7
so you didn't even try to feel the handle first?
mrboomstik 3
Cooking common sense. Sorry OP but YDI, get better pans with handles that don't heat up if you're still dumb enough to blindly grab something sitting over an open heat source.
Spectre529 12
well.... there is a first for everything, hmm?
etchsanity1 11
Except this fml has been on here at least 2x lol
Kyle225 3
That burns..BOOOOOMMM No?okay...
fairyriahlinn12 0
Try using a towel next time .?
ellytoad 13
Our pans have metal handles that get quite hot. One shouldn't have to take lids off with two fingers and crash them on top of the stove. Yeah, I'm too lazy to use a mitt. But the point is, we shouldn't have to, you know?