On May 8, 12:50*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> gtr wrote:
> > Brooklyn1 said:
> >> dsi1 wrote:
> >>> gtr wrote:
>
> >>>> I just burned the hell out of the side of my thumb shuffling salmon
> >>>> about in the broiler. Any ancient wisdom on how to treat it?
>
> >>>> I've got a blister 1 inch by 1/4 inch. I'm dosing it every hour with a
> >>>> fresh application of aloe vera goo.
>
> >>> If you cook, you're going to get burned. I've gotten burned so many
> >>> times that I usually ignore it.
>
> >> Then you're a lousy cook, a klutz, and a menace...
>
> >> …a good cook is far less likely to suffer burns, cuts, or other cooking
> >> calamities...
>
> >…and less likely still means occasional...
>
> "I've gotten burned so many times" is not occasional. duh
>
> I've been cooking for more than 60 years and I cook practically every
> day, often all day... I've never gotten burned... professional cooks
> rarely if ever get burned. *Those who tend to burn themselves early on
> and often almost always find a different occupation, one without heat,
> or sharps. *People who burn themselves as you do, "so many times" are
> typically careless in all things including personal hygiene,
> especially personal hygiene.

I do not agree with the statement that professional cooks don't get
burnt- probably not as much as other people do, but it happens...