cshenk wrote:

> "Horry" wrote
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>>He's probably quite capable of handling hot liquids and naked flames.
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> So nice to chat with you last night Horry! Well, night for me at least ;-)
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> For the others, he meant pouring boiling liquids and for flames meant things
> like flambe's or since he was specifically addressing cake making, those
> little blow torches you see chefs with on TV. Stuff like that. Not normal
> things like heating a soup or using a burner on the stove (or in his case,
> mentioned hot plates being what they have and use mostly).
>
> Sensible. Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta from
> the stove to the sink colander at that age either.
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>

My son is a long-term pastaholic and has been boiling salted water and
draining cooked pasta in a colander since he was 7. He's 14 now. He
most probably has gotten himself a steam burn or two since then but the
idea of possibly losing the right to cook his own pasta at will has kept
him from ever mentioning any such incident.

He's still got all his fingers, never needed a skin graft, has no
visible scars. And he makes an absolutely rocking alfredo sauce.

At some point, I suspect that this, combined with his ninja "garlic
bread, caesar salad and loading the dishwasher" skills, will probably
score big points with the ladies.