Danger of wooden kitchen utensils

Surely the handle would have stayed in your hand? That's certainly an odd one! Wooden utensils should be thick and durable, I wouldn't have imagined they'd snap.

I'm certainly glad that didn't happen to me when I was making jam the other week... boiling jam in the face would suck!

Hope it hasn't burnt you too badly. If it's an area larger than 2 or 3 inches or on your face, you should see a doctor.

 

If you had his luck, the window would have been open and bees would have swarmed your jam covered face.

I say we all send Kev a rabbit's foot

 

Left wrist has a HUGE solder iron burn. Shortly after I bought a nice Weller iron with a stand to prevent that one from happening again. More small soldering iron burns than I can count but the scars are sure there.

Right leg met a heatgun one morning. ER trip and 2 vicodin later everything was better.

Been shocked by more hardware than I can count but each one taught me a lesson that no college course ever could. Did you know that just because the switch is flipped to "off" doesn't mean the "hot" wire in that extension cord was disconnected? AC power is fun.

 

I cook with wood utensils, have done so for almost ten years now and never had a problem like this.

Wood is far better than metal for me because
A) it doesn't scratch the surface of your pans
B) it doesn't get as hot as metal in the handle and doesn't burn your hand if you leave it on the stove

I use it more than plastic, which I try to avoid since hot plastic spatulas often mean traces of plastic chemicals in the food.

 

I don't understand what the hell happened to be honest. So you had something like this:


It broke in two pieces and the ladle's handle FELL on the rim of your kettle - and it FLIPPED UP the kettle?

I just can't imagine how the hell that is supposed to happen. The handle of a ladle weighs maybe 50 grams and the contents of your kettle might have been 1 kilogram. How can it even move the kettle, let alone spill its contents all the way up to your face??

 

I think I get it now. For some reason, I imagined something different:

 

Worse burn I saw was off an industrial oven. Was on a work experience placement from school. We were heating up plastic to bend in the mould (for arcade machines) when the guy teaching me didnt notice the hot oven door swinging shut. Hit his upper arm melted his shirt and skin. Was grim. You know when hot melted cheese goes stringy when you cut pizza? Yep like that.
As for my burns got a good dose of electric off an aircraft. Some utter bellend put power on on the circuit I was working on. 415v. Hurt him more when I smacked him in the face.

 

You should try being in my mother's kitchen, the amount of bizzare distaters which have occured. Once she left an apple crumble in the oven with a plastic plate over the top, forgot about it and tried to preheat the oven, half an hour later she didn't realise that there was a plate on top becaus eit had completely melted and she assumed that the pink goo was just burnt apple (because apparently apple turns bright pink when it burns???) then she tried to eat it...
She's also set fire to about a billion different plastic and wooden utensils and has burnt her hands about a million times on the elements inside our cheap element oven (our proper oven broke, our hosue is wired illegally, we can't afford a new oven and for the house to be rewired)

 

Not as loud as my work mate drilling thro his left testicle.

 

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thats seriously nasty, a friend of mine has 1 bigger than the other for similar reasons :-(

ive had red hot oil splashed on my arm in the kitchen by my friends daughter (bless) and ended up with a few cuts from drunken cooking with my mates, one of them sliced into my arm without realising, nice and bleedy for a while

unlucky assembler, however i think it was bad luck as i've used wooden utensils etc. for nearly 30 years and never had a problem

 

I prefer using wooden utensils and while I've never broken one before, when I was a child, my dad broke a wooden spoon while spanking me ass. My mom still uses the spoon some 20 years later.

 

That's bad wiring job by a hack electrician or DIYer. It sounds like the switch controlled the neutral leg instead of the hot leg.