December 04, 2004

Skin

I see that Stacey posted something new over on the food blog.

When working with 300 degree F (149 C) sugar mixture, one should not be real careful because if you should be pouring the mixture out of the pot onto a jelly roll pan and the person you're helping is smoothing it into a thin layer and you're, of course, being totally careful, holding the hot copper pot with a heat-resistant silicon glove, blue in color, on your left hand and with a silicon heat-resistant pot holder, translucent-white in color, in your right hand so that you do not burn your hands, and you are totally concentrating on where you are pouring the 300-degree mixture, you won't see the person you are helping move the spoon with the 300-degree mixture on it and you will not be able to avoid the spoon being jammed into the back of your right hand in that sensitive area between your thumb and the first knuckle of your index finger.

It's a quite interesting sensation. There is no blister. The skin just comes right off, leaving a big raw area.

Posted by Bill at December 4, 2004 11:59 PM
Comments

Oops.

Posted by: lucy at December 5, 2004 12:32 AM

well... i'm thinking that MAYBE if we'd have put your hand immediately in cold water, you might have a blister. instead of you having me rip the brittle right off -- and thus the skin along with it.

sorry. really sorry.

Posted by: stacey at December 5, 2004 04:45 AM

Ouch. I worked in a movie theater for awhile when I was a teenager. I ran my the back of my hand across that metal kettel inside the popcorn popper once. Let me tell you it is really hard to act tough when your skin has been peeled off.

But ouch 300 degree sugar, thats gotta feel like napalm. Heel quickly my friend and don't let it effect your typing.

Should it be effect or affect, I always get those mixed up.

Posted by: Jeff A at December 5, 2004 07:06 AM

We cook alike.

Well...uh...that's when I actually get into the kitchen to cook.

Something always gets burned at my house.

Posted by: KathyHowe at December 5, 2004 08:42 AM

OWWWWWWWWWWW! My whole stomach lurched. Yep. The whole thing. That is the whole area below my chest but above the pelvis just did this lurching sensation the minute you said "skin just comes right off". (Am I allowed to say pelvis around here? Ha!)

And then it happened all over again when Stacey said, "rip the brittle right off - and thus the skin along with it". But I'm starting to desensitize.

And I'm starting to remember that photo of your hairy leg and the scratch. And I'm thinking about the lurch I'd get. But you wouldn't...

Posted by: Keri at December 5, 2004 12:54 PM