Out of the Frying Pan and Into My Face
So Christina and I have been hooked on Food Network lately, and as a result I’ve believed that I can cook just like all of the pros do. Over the past few days I’ve made some pretty good stuff, including homemade salsa (which I call Sunrider Salsa, a reference to the online persona I’ve used for as long as I can remember). Yesterday morning, though, I was reminded just how untalented I actually am.
Christina was scrambling eggs for breakfast and I was frying up some diced potatoes for home fries. Once they were done, I let the oil sit for a minute then went to clean the skillet. I thought the oil had cooled down. It hadn’t.
I put some water in the pan and heard a pop. Before I knew it, hot oil was popping and splattering all over the place. I dumped it down the sink as fast as I could, but it had hit me in the face and gotten on my arms. Luckily, I wasn’t seriously hurt, but I do have some pretty wicked burn marks today. My right eye was watering like crazy and I was afraid I had actually gotten some IN my eye, but luckily that wasn’t the case.
I had a similar incident when I was 18 involving taking a tray of macaroni and cheese out of the oven and dropping it on the floor, with bubbling cheese splattering onto my face.
So today I’ve got what a coworker called “Wolverine scars” under my eye and some blotches on my arm, but I managed to get to the bathroom sink and splash myself with water before the burns got serious.
Let this be a lesson to you, kids: if you try to emulate television, you might burn your face off.
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Welcome to the scars of the cooking world. I love to be in the kitchen, and have my fair share of burns, cuts, scrapes and blisters. The worst thing I had ever done, was preheated the oven, not knowing that there was pan already inside; and when the oven was heated, I reached in and grabbed the pan, not thinking, and definitely not thinking about it being stupid hot. Needless to say that I had some pretty bad blisters on my fingertips and on my palm.
I want to be a chef for a living.
Although, We had this chicken, which…Apparently it had some oil, and it leaked. It set the chicken, and the cardboard around it on FIRE. I actually grabbed it, and threw it into the tub, and attacking the water knob.
I got Third Degree burns on my right hand, and Dinner was ruined, but I DID save the house.
Just remember, chicks dig scars! Lol
Heh, seems like everyone here has been scarred by food. Most of my fail-ish food experiences revolve around my succession of thieving Golden Retrievers. They can get away with anything because they’re so cute… even stealing 11 of the 15 meatballs we were about to have for dinner.
Yeah, I have also had some burning experiences with oil.
Hope your scars get better. Until then, as far as anyone else knows, you fought off a wolverine and won. 
Hot oil is a dickish semi-liquid.