Nancy Young wrote:
> ... or so it would seem. Completely uninspired to make dinner,
> I wandered around the store, what to make. Decided on a cut up
> chicken to make oven fried. How easy is that?
>
> Well, after melting the butter/shortening in the pan, I took it
> out of the oven to add the chicken. Somewhere between then
> and putting the pan back into the oven, my brain forgot that it
> was hot. Put it back barehanded, a glass pan that had been in a
> 425 oven for probably 15 minutes.
>
> Bad enough I barely had fingerprints before, now they're just
> flat burnt. Ouch! I got it in ... but I bet if it was a metal pan, I'd
> be in the emergency room right now.

Actually a glass pan burns twice as badly as metal... the exterior of a
metal pan would be no hotter than the chicken juices inside the pan,
probably slightly less than 212º F. The exterior of a glass pan would
be slightly cooler than the 425ºF oven setting.

Long ago and far away when I was doing mass cooking I was able to
easily handle aluminum pans directly from the oven, bare handed, no hot
pads at all.... learned to grip above the food line and move quickly.

Sheldon