PSA: if you're cooking in cast iron for the first time...

[GagHalfrunt]

After getting a nice sear on your palm make sure you remember to let the meat on your hand rest before serving it.

 

[momeNt]

Making the mistake with cast iron is one thing, but the fact it was in the oven just makes you plain retarded.

 

[Murloc]

if it was in the oven it's going to be hot regardless of the transmission of heat to the handle.
I'd not risk that even if it was a low heat capacity material.

I never really burned myself but I did touch some hot metal in the kitchen sometimes.

 

[notposting]

Yep, tons of it under the gauze, and a bunch to take home too. My hand was burning and throbbing the entire ride home and for quite a while after that, but I woke up this morning and the pain is virtually gone. Silvadene does rock. :thumbsup:

Our son burnt his foot this fall, and when we went in for a followup a couple days later they had a silver foam pad that we stuck on his foot for a week. No reapplying silvadene, no bare skin to worry about when changing dressings. It's pretty good stuff it sounds like. He did get Silvadene right off the bat though.

And for amusement, Aetna is still trying to weasel out of random charges. I hate them 😡

 

[effowe]

Doing the Alton method for my steaks I find that just one oven mitt isn't enough. I have to double up to not feel the heat. Hope the burn heals soon.

 

[Iron Woode]

I hope your hand gets better soon.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Well,pretty late in life but, at least you learned a lesson. This is what happens when 'youts' are never allowed to cook or play with knives.

 

[spidey07]

I've done it plenty of times (take pan out of oven and set on stove, do something else, grab pan on stove like normal). What's worse is when you just pick it right up like a regular pan and the signal doesn't get to your brain fast enough. So you have to hold it a little few tenths of a second to put it back down.

I have a little cloth handle that goes over the handle, I try to remember to put that on when I take it out of the oven.

The reason for such a bad burn is the reason cast iron rocks. Specific heat, it "holds onto" the heat extremely well.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I've done it plenty of times. What's worse is when you just pick it right up like a regular pan and the signal doesn't get to your brain fast enough. So you have to hold it a little few tenths of a second to put it back down.

I have a little cloth handle that goes over the handle, I try to remember to put that on when I take it out of the oven.

We've always known you were special. 😀

 

[spidey07]

We've always known you were special. 😀

To be fair it's when I'm cooking after many cocktails, hence the added brain reaction time.

 

[akshatp]

Brain fart. Dont worry happens to everyone.

Last year just after my wife had our first baby, I was boiling some bottles, nipples, etc. and like a retard I decided it would be fine to just fish the bottle out of the boiling pot with my bare right hand!!! I could blame it on lack of sleep from having a newborn, but it was just one of those blond moments that everyone gets once in a while.

Four days later my hand felt like normal.