hand vs cut off wheel, and you?

It's slathered in some cream from work now. We have some heavy duty burn cream in the first aid kit at work. Kind of a neccessity in a restaurant.
 
true... and DO NOT POP THE BLISTERS!!!! all the ones that i popped took about 3 weeks longer to heal than the ones i left alone... 3 weeks is a long damb time!
 
ya, for some reason all cooks that Ive worked with, gone to school with seem to think you are supposed to pop em. That is completely wrong! Youre just asking for infection by doing that.


And ya I always hated cleaning two things, the grill and the fryer. Both have to be done while hot. The fryer is probably worse when you have to dump the oil because you have a huge 5+ gallon stock pot full of hot oil that you have to carry to the grease trap. Anyways, where do you work darmstro?
 
Oh don't get me started on cooking burns. In college I worked at Chilis. You ever seen someone cook one of those big onion things? You dip it in batter and flower, turn it upside down and then throw it into the fryer while spinning it to get the "petals" to open up. Yeah, that takes a few burns to master.
 
My most serious injury may come from laughing so hard at reading some of these stories! I know people suffered here, but this is just golden! I may have given myself a hernia during reading some of these, I swear I almost shit myself when at the end of one of the great stories they added, "and then I was riding shotgun in the olds"! I was laughing when I read that, then started laughing harder, suddenly sneezed, which triggered a fart! That was painfully funny itself! I am crying right now I am still laughing so hard!
 
Flugtechnik said:
Oh don't get me started on cooking burns. In college I worked at Chilis. You ever seen someone cook one of those big onion things? You dip it in batter and flower, turn it upside down and then throw it into the fryer while spinning it to get the "petals" to open up. Yeah, that takes a few burns to master.
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when I was on internship we had a roasted beat and goat cheese salad. The goat cheese came to us in "logs" and wed slice them into pucks, tempura batter them, coat them in panko (japanese bread crumbs) then when a salad got ordered we'd drop em in the deep fryer. They were delicate though, so when you pulled them up in the basket you couldnt use tongs or anything to grab them, you used your hand. Grabbing stuff right out the deep fryer is not nice, but you get used to it. However every once in a while if you let it go just a bit too far it got really delicate and when you went to grab it your finger would go right through the crust and into molten hot goat cheese.
 
Here are the high lights of the best on I have been witness to.

Out on Long Point bay doing some watersking , after quite a few beers one guy figures he can wrap the tow rope around his hand and pull the skier . As the boat starts to speed up the rope begins to slip. The rope pulls out so of his hand so fast that the hook at the end catches the first and second finger and rips them off.

we had to gather the fingers and put them in the cooler , with the ice and beer, as we rushed back in to the dock .
On the drive to the hospital we got pulled over for speeding. The cop actually took the time to write the ticket before providing an escort to the hospital.
 
oh man, I just remembered a good one I witnessed. I was riding my bike home along the lake front (really long bike bath along lake michigan in chicago) and I was going slow messing with my ipod. Im approaching an left then right tight s curve and as Im turning left I catch this guy out the corner of my eye inches from me. He was trying to pass me on my left on a beach cruiser style bike, and for some reason didnt anticipate Id stay on the path and follow the s curve to the left. So at the last second he tries to swerve farther left but completely locks up his front wheel, and in a split send his face greets the asphalt pathway. Somehow I did not get touched despite being literally inches from him. I pull to the side and the guy is all tangled in his bike, out cold, in a pool of blood. By the time I get off my bike someone had already called 911. In the few minutes it too the ambulance to get there I stood in shock and watched this guy sort of snoring and gurgling on his own blood. Of course guy that wants to be a hero and says hes going to untangle him from the bike "because his arm doesnt look too good like that." I had to nearly physically restrain the 'hero' from touching the guy. A couple of bystanders were agreeing that they should move him. Are these people idiots? Possible neck injury, and you want to move a guy because his arm looks uncomfortable? Anyways the ambulance gets there and the guys ask him what happened. He says, "some fucking asshole cut me off, fucking asshole!" all slurred. The guy is missing some teeth, and blood is oozing out of his face. I felt pretty bad and thought "shit maybe this is my fault!" Then the medics asked him "Have you been drinking today?" He mumbled something that I couldnt hear, but from the medics laughs I knew the guy was plastered. I suddenly didnt feel so bad.
 
this shit is crazy. ill have to post my latest burn pics. you know you done good when you can put a pinhole in the blisters and then squirt puss out of them every hour or so
 
boomshakalaka said:
ya, for some reason all cooks that Ive worked with, gone to school with seem to think you are supposed to pop em. That is completely wrong! Youre just asking for infection by doing that.


And ya I always hated cleaning two things, the grill and the fryer. Both have to be done while hot. The fryer is probably worse when you have to dump the oil because you have a huge 5+ gallon stock pot full of hot oil that you have to carry to the grease trap. Anyways, where do you work darmstro?
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I just work in a local bar/diner/restaurant. I've been cooking for about 10 years so I've seen it and experienced it all. I've witnessed someone dipping their hand in a deep fryer.

I went and played hockey tonight and the blisters stayed bubbled. One popped on its own later tonight but the two on the left stayed together and now they're like big bubbles of fluid. They're all slathered in antibiotic cream and I have an old Rx for an infection that I can take just in case.
 
boomshakalaka said:
Of course guy that wants to be a hero and says hes going to untangle him from the bike "because his arm doesnt look too good like that." I had to nearly physically restrain the 'hero' from touching the guy. Then the medics asked him "Have you been drinking today?" He mumbled something that I couldnt hear, but from the medics laughs I knew the guy was plastered. I suddenly didnt feel so bad.
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Man welcome to my everyday life on the meat wagon. People are idiots:

1. They always "only drank 2 beers"

2. If they were in a wreck, it was NEVER the patients fault

3. the assholes are the ones who have the least wrong with them....also in this category are the ones who whine the most.

4. The legitimate calls are he ones who you have to talk into going with you.

5. Did I mention how idiotic the general population can be?

Seriously man, you can't ever understand what people are capable of until you're the other end of 911.

BTW, all of the crap you guys are mentioning on here I would be glad to run! Badass stories!
 
Darmstro said:
I've witnessed someone dipping their hand in a deep fryer.
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I've been that guy. I was working at Mcdonald's, 17 years old, Manager drops her keys right into the fry vat while leaving in a rush. I could see them sinking and without a second worth of thought I snatched them out, bare handed., and threw them on the rack where the fries sit to go stale. They were only an inch or two below the surface, and the only burn was on my index finger where I hooked the key ring. Even that wasn't bad, though I reached in to about my wrist.

Everyone freaked out and started trying to run cold water on it. No one believed that it didn't hurt me, even me. Hand of God, don't know. I guess he intervenes in moments of extreme friggin' stupidity.
 
Flugtechnik said:
Apparently there is an artery their that runs into your thumb. When the doc was stitching it up, he opened up the wound and showed my how the blood would squirt out. Came out like a geyser and you could see it going up and down with my heartbeat. It was cool (because he had numbed it).
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Cut myself on broken glass once, got a slice down that artery, not just across it. INSANE how fast it bleeds haha
 
Andrew said:
Cut myself on broken glass once, got a slice down that artery, not just across it. INSANE how fast it bleeds haha
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glad i missed that shit i had to wait 3 1/2 hours to get seen in the er and their was a guy ahead of me who cut his hand too. i did get to go ahead of him but for about 2 !/2 hours no one care how much i was bleeding. or checked. no pain meds. just meat hanging out of my hand and take a seat. 3 smoke breaks later, a shitty bills game, and a blood soaked towel,paper towel and napkin. and then oh you cut it good... nusre pain meds right away.
 
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