Minna’s been cooking again…
Oven is a dangerous thing, you know. I can’t remember a lot of times when I haven’t burned myself on the upper edge while putting something in or taking something out of the oven.
Today I’ve been making raspberry pie and in addition to forgetting to buy creme fraiche (I had it in my hand but between the shelf and the cashier, it disappeared! It’s missing from the receipt so I didn’t pay for it thankfully.) and probably botching the pie dough (40 g of butter and 10 cookies is supposed to make a dough you can mold?! Yeah, right.), I managed to burn both my arms.
Right arm while putting the pie in, left arm while taking it out. I really need shoulder-length oven mittens. (Or better yet, a head-to-toe padded and insulated safety overall.)
I’ll take a picture of the pie (it’s not very interesting-looking) when it’s done.
I’m so clumsy in my kitchen anyway (emphasis on “my” because it’s just a matter of proportions — mine or the kitchen’s). The hood of the stove is above my eye-level so I’m always bumping my head into it when I cook something on the back burners. I thought of taping some yellow and black warning tape on it or attach some dangly things (beads or something) there. Also the cupboard doors are hazardous because I’m always forgetting them half-open — bruises and bumps are guaranteed when I’m unloading the dishwasher.
Anyway, here’s the pie!
It’s not burned (I had to take it out of the oven a little prematurely cause I had to leave to meet my aunt at the train station) but the cookie colour or butter seeped into the filling. It was delicious, despite the missing fraiche (I used some lemon juice as a substitute for sourness).
You know how they say you should put water on burn marks? I accidentally did an empirical test because I forgot to put water on the other burn mark I got yesterday. The one I did put water on is now only red but flat and seems to be healing nicely; the other one is blistered, and a bit sore if I poke and prod it. Quite interesting (to me).
Buy some vitamin E, you’ll use it for so many injuries, including burns. Get the little capsules, poke a hole in one with a pin, squeeze some out and put it on the burn – you’ll never have a scar.
Yes, you should run cold water over burns as soon as possible. It is not so much that it is water but that it is cold. Cooling down the burn will stop the tissue from “cooking” any more. This is an important first aid (at least for those regular small burns — I don’t recall if one should run water over serious big burns).
I’ve heard that one should put butter on burns, but I don’t recall having seen any “scientific” explanation for that one. (I use just water — it is less messy, too.)
So, then, this oven thing
… In my oven there is a rack shelf one can pull out, put the pie on, and safely push the rack back into the oven … *duck and run* … 
Jafer: Vitamin E? Really? I haven’t heard that before! Mum suggested I put hydrocortisone cream on the burn (it seems to be a popular general cure for anything in my family; I don’t know how widely it’s used in Finland and abroad).
Kimmo: Oh, that’s what the rack is for! I thought it was for keeping the morning paper fresh until late afternoon!
The rack is all good as long as you can hold whatever you’re putting in or taking out in one hand but if you have a huge pan of heavy casserole, one-handed operation is a tad difficult (at least for a puny lass like myself
). I was worried that this pie would break because it was in a thin tinfoil pan (that sounds like Chinese) — don’t know why I didn’t take the whole rack out along with the pie, though, now that I think about it. Maybe I had something on the stove at the same time.
Live and learn/burn.
Mm…i wish i could taste that
lol..aww the fraiche would have been the best, but lemon juice? I wonder how that would taste 
PS: You went to bake lessons? You’ve been baking these days
I’ve been baking a lot because I’ve collected so many lovely recipes and I just need people to visit me so I can try them (the recipes) out!
I haven’t taken any lessons unless staring at Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson without blinking counts as taking lessons. 
I think the lemon suited nicely with the raspberries. I’ve often tasted a hint of lemon in these sour-ish berry or fruit pies.
Whatever you do, don’t put butter on it – that was an old wives tale – butter and margarine retain heat in tissues and can make the burn worse; plus, that greasy stuff is perfect for breeding infectious bacteria.
Cool it down with cool water and get rid of any scarring with the vitamin E.
The marks are still there but I scratched off the scab. Now the burn marks are just a little darker than the skin around them. And you’ll be happy to hear I haven’t made any new ones (even though I’ve baked!).