NEVER ever put boiling hot water into a container to make instant tea and shake to mix

[uppityperson]

When you shake boiling hot water in a container a bunch of steam comes out and blasts open the top of the container leading to a clean kitchen (eventually) and blisters between fingers making it hard to type. Kitchen ceiling and walls and cupboards and windows and decorations and floor are all clean now. Oh, I almost forgot. If you try this, make sure to not use instant pre-sweetened tea because the sugar is sticky.

Another interesting day of massaging coming up tomorrow.

End of tonight's public service announcement.

[NMDemDist2]

1. i learned that making gravy

:banghead:

hope your hand is ok :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

2. Yikes! Bet that hurt, and then having to clean up the mess on top

of that! x(

[Shakespeare]

3. Jesus...you're lucky it didn't explode the glass everywhere!

Hot water + cold glass container = dangerous stuff. :scared:

[uppityperson]

4. Plastic juice container.

Lid hit the ceiling. I don't do cold/hot with glass, uh uh, been there, did that.

[Shakespeare]

6. Ah, ok.

That'll teach me to read closer next time. ;-)

I had an unfortunate hot exploding glass experience a couple of thanksgivings ago, and I don't care to repeat it. Yikers.

[uppityperson]

7. I learned with cookware, putting hot baking dishes into sink&running water.

Way back as a young adult. Called home to complain about bad dishes. I also didn't know that chickens had to be cooked in a day or 2. Called home to complain about the slimy week old raw chicken in my frig. My mother was very patient, probably laughed her butt off after hanging up. I must type slowly because otherwise my fingers get warm and hurt. Maybe I'll go read a book.

[Bjornsdotter]

5. Oh dear

....I hope you are feeling better. Burns are the worst

:hug:

[tjwmason]

8. Even simpler advice

Never make "instant tea" - it's even worse than "instant coffee". :scared:

Tea is supposed to take a while to make, that's half of the magic - one is relaxed by the very act of making it. But then, being English, I regard a cup of tea as the solution to all of the world's ills.

[VenusRising]

9. I have found that soaking the burn in cold water

really lessens the effects of the burn. The body absorbs the water you're soaking in instead of sending a bunch to the site causing a blister. I actually grabbed the pre-heated oven rack with my bare hand one night (the oven mit was on the other hand):eyes:, and there was actually no blister from it. The pain was unbearable when it started to dry, but after that, I was good. I was even hand sewing that same night.

I hope your burn heals fast.

:hug:

[DS1]

10. Yes, that would be called a catalist

[WinkyDink]

11. I learned that with a blender.

[uppityperson]

12. Blender lesson: Don't put really hard cheese in a plastic blender unless you want

to buy a new food holder part.

Your blender exploded hot liquid all over? Yikes.

[WinkyDink]

13. Through the unsecured lid. Yikes, indeed!

[Skittles]

14. what kind of f***ing idiot does that?

I jest, my sweet - you be careful ya hear?

[ashling]

15. Lesson learned?

Don't drink instant tea ... yech! :)