Making dinner can hurt.

[Skidmore]

I just came back from the emergency room in the burn unit. Today I was pan searing salmon steaks with a ginger and scallions. I had just seared the steaks in olive oil and removed them from the pan to a platter and had deglazed the pan with white wine and reduced it. I was adding scallions, garlic, and ginger to the reduction before I would add soy sauce and brown sugar. When the scallion mixture hit the wine and oil mixture in the pan, it just exploded in my face. I've been cooking a long time and I've never had anything like this happen before. There must have been a bit of moisture still in the scallions. Anyway, all I could see was this big spray of stuff coming at me. I was hit in the face with the hot oil and wine mixture and bits of stuff.

I was really fortunate. First, I wear glasses so none of this got in my eyes. Second, I have an electric stove so it didn't start a fire and I turned it off immediately. Third, I was two steps from the sink and I grabbed a clean kitchen towen and immediately soaked it with cold water and covered my face. I cleaned the oil off and kept a cool compress on it. My husband drove me to the nearest emergency room twenty miles away. I have some second degree burns on my chin, just under my nose, above my left eyebrow, and on my inner forearms. I have first a first degree burn on my left cheek that looks like a bad sunburn. The skin on my face hurts. I just took some Vicodan as prescribed so it is starting to hurt less quickly and my typing skills are deteriorating.

Anyway, my husband, bless his heart, is down cleaning up the floor. And I'm going to relax.

They say olive oil is good for the skin. LOL!

[Longhorn]

1. Oh, dear, I'm so sorry!

I hope you heal quickly and painlessly! :hug:

[hippywife]

2. Wow!

Sure glad you're okay. That must have been extremely frightening. I hope you're just gonna rest and relax tonight. May not have any choice with those Vikes. Take care! :hug:

[wildeyed]

3. Oh you poor thing!

What a horrible surprise. Hope you heal quickly!

[Duer 157099]

4. OMG, how horrible!

Thank God you wear glasses!

And that you weren't cooking chilis in that mix (although it was bad enough as it was)

Take care of those wounds

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I'm glad you're okay!!!! My guess as to what happened ......

..... water inside the hollow scallion stems.

As I said, its just a guess. I saw it happen years ago when someone working for me washed some scallions after cutting them. I've just always washed them before cutting for this very reason. I don't know where I learned that.

[KatyaR]

6. WOW--you are so lucky . . . .

That sounds exactly like something that could happen to me--I'm pretty clumsy in the kitchen these days. I'm so glad you're okay--you're lucky you had someone there to drive you to the ER.

I'll have to remember not to wash scallions after cutting--yikes!

Take it easy, will ya? :hug:

[MagickMuffin]

7. Ouch, I'm so sorry this happened to you

I'm glad you're okay and it wasn't as bad as it could have been. You acted fast and that probably helped in the long run.

Thank you for warning everyone else here about the dangers of cooking.:scared: I have never heard of anything like this happening. It's interesting that the scallions would do that since there was the liquid already in the pan, I wouldn't have ever thought that any additional moisture from the scallions would make that much of a difference.:shrug:

Take care of yourself.:hug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. Yikes!

Glad it wasn't worse! Make sure to poke open some vitamin E gel caps and rub the goo on your blisters when they start subsiding more. It's a skin healer. If you can get hold of some aloe vera, use that too.

I got a really bad second degree sunburn on my back when I was 16. My mom slathered me with aloe vera gel religiously every day, and it didn't scar.

Hope that vicodin is working, and that you feel OK. :hug:

[Neecy]

9. wow -scary stuff

Thank goodness you're okay, although those burns are going to smart for a few days.

I hope that after all of his good deeds your husband finally got to eat the salmon!

Take care and keep us posted on how you're healing up ----

[Phentex]

10. Oh no!

How very scary for you. I've had plenty of fires in my cooking days. Luckily not many lately. I do have 2 fire extinguishers in the kitchen. :)

I hope you feel better soon!

[displacedtexan]

11. So...? What did you finally eat? The salmon? Take-out?

Glad you're OK!

Here's hoping you get waited on hand-and-foot today!

[housewolf]

12. Oh.... OUCH! I'm so sorry

Sounds like you had a horrible evening!

But fortunate that you have a loving hubby to take care of you.

Hope you are doing better today.

[NMDemDist2]

13. OMG

:hug:

heal fast and I'm so sorry

[japple]

14. Hope you have an aloe vera plant. Squeeze some of the

juice out and put it on the burn. That usually takes the pain, although I've never had one nearly as serious as yours. I think it will help, though. May you heal quickly and your pain be minimal.

[hippywife]

15. How ya doin' today, Skids?

I hope better. :hug:

[Skidmore]

16. I'm doing better.

Boy, I sure learned a lot about reacting quickly when you get burned. I didn't get any really big blisters, but a few small ones. This morning the swelling of the second degree burns has gone down. I had a bottle of aloe vera gel here at home and I have used it liberally. I think I will heal quickly. Yesterday, I slept a bit and just rested. My face was a little swollen and still red. Now it itches, so I think I'm starting to mend. I turned on the stove this morning and felt like ducking as I was pouring the omelet mix into that pan, though.

[hippywife]

18. Understandable to be a little

gun shy after that incident. Glad you didn't blister too badly and are on the mend. :hug:

[spinbaby]

17. Wow

That sounds really scary. And it's not a process where I would have worried something like that happening. Deep frying is what I always worry about.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. OMG!!! I can absolutely sympathize and I know exactly how terribly burns can hurt!!!

I also burned myself, while cooking, and ended up in the ER, as well! And this was back in December, but I still have a bandage on my foot!!!;(

I was making soup, potato, onion and bacon, a recipe that I've posted here. I've made the damn thing a million times, since getting it from my grandmother's neighbor, back in the '80s...:shrug:

My mother was having cataract surgery, and she loves this soup, and since I had an appointment nearby the next day, I wanted to bring her some. But I was in a hurry, since it was getting late and I had to get up the next day, so I got careless. :-(

It was pretty much done, and, being potato soup, it was very hot and very thick. When I went to take this big pot off the stove, some of it sloshed out of the pot and landed on the floor and on my foot. It hurt like hell, must have gotten inside my shoe, though I thought I could tough it out. No such luck.;(

MY SO and my friend finally talked me into going to the ER, though it was late on a Friday night, and it's an awfully good thing that I did. Turns out that I had second degree burns on my foot and it just kept hurting worse... When my SO took a look at my foot, he thought that I'd used tissues to wipe it off, but that was my skin!!!x(

I've been on hydrocodone since December, and even that didn't help much with the pain, in the beginning. Sometimes I didn't think I could stand it, despite the pain meds, and I had to keep it elevated, not that I needed to be convinced, since it was excruciating just to walk. I've used both crutches and a cane, and wasn't allowed to drive because of the strong meds I was on, not that I wanted to. In the ER, when they asked me how much it hurt, on a scale from 1-10, I said 9, and I wasn't exaggerating...;(

I'm finally wearing two shoes again, and I'm very fortunate, since the doctor said that it's finally healing. I was very lucky, and he was surprised, originally said I might need plastic surgery. I made Christmas dinner while on crutches and still need a lower dose of the pain meds, from time to time, and I did this on December 7th!!!:wow:

So I certainly can sympathize. Some hot soup just sloshed on my foot and it's been a nightmare. You can't be too careful with burns...:hug: