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Originally Posted by Buff
Burns hurt pretty bad. I was in my late teens and I worked at KFC. I was cleaning the deep fryers and I had one shutdown and empyting. I put my hand on the bar between the one I was cleaning and the one that was still in use. My hand slipped off that bar and into the deep fryer that was still in use. Amazingly my hand didn't get burned, but the grease that splashed onto my chest hurt. I had about half a dozen blisters on my chest from the splashing grease. A couple of them looked like somebody put out a cigarette on my chest.
Avoid grease burns!
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I have a similar story cleaning a deep fryer at Earl's. There's a small hole at the bottom where the grease empties out of, and you use a steel bar to break it free when it gets clogged. I was hammering on the bottom of the deep fryer, when the clog cleared and my hand went all the way into the fryer.
I put it in water immediately. It initially did not hurt that badly, but that night the pain became intense. I drank a micky of Vodka to get to sleep. The next day a layer of skin pealed off like a glove.
I've also horribly burnt myself searing steaks in a wok. Got the butter incredibly hot and put the steak in, and the butter splashed onto me, while I was shirtless. Ended up with about 3 dozen dime sized burns all over my body and face. The skin turned totally black at each small burn. About 3 days later they started coming off, and bleeding underneath. A couple of them on my side you could see down into some white layer. I went to the doctor. They said that since the burns were all very small they would heal on their own without grafts. Thankfully, I don't scar easily.
I'm very careful to put my steaks down facing away from me while searing now. I usually wear a shirt now too.