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Old 01-21-2019, 11:32 AM   #51
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Imma gonna continue to limit my reality testing to recipes.
That's no guaranteee of safety. I got a second degree burn from melted cheese last year.
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Old 01-21-2019, 11:43 AM   #52
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That's no guaranteee of safety. I got a second degree burn from melted cheese last year.
And I darn near went blind – and had heart palpitations and difficulty breathing – when the sambal oelek I was cooking up became a chemical weapon and gassed me. The recipe failed to mention that there's such a thing as peppers that are too hot . . . or (and this is mostly my fault) that you cover it to cook it and don't lift the lid until the paste has cooled to room temperature.
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Old 01-21-2019, 12:17 PM   #53
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And I darn near went blind – and had heart palpitations and difficulty breathing – when the sambal oelek I was cooking up became a chemical weapon and gassed me. The recipe failed to mention that there's such a thing as peppers that are too hot . . . or (and this is mostly my fault) that you cover it to cook it and don't lift the lid until the paste has cooled to room temperature.
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Old 01-21-2019, 09:03 PM   #54
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For the curious, the stuff I've personally reality-checked includes Wham! (p. 6) when I was tossed head-first at a cast-iron radiator, Prickly Pests (p. 8) when I fell into an agave, Corrosive (p. 10) when I stuck my hand in nitric acid, Spicy! (p. 20) when I made sambal oelek and it got in my eye, Hot Liquids (p. 21) when I was deep-fat fried, and The Glint of Light on Broken Glass (p. 21) when I walked across nail-studded planks hidden in grass. I don't recommend any of it. I've worked with much of the stuff under C Is for Chemicals, E Is for Electricity, K Is for Kitchen, N Is for Nautical, Q Is for Quantum, T Is for Tools, and Y Is for Yuck, but fortunately never reality-checked how dangerous it was.
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Old 01-21-2019, 10:00 PM   #55
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Hot oil is there. The author worked in a restaurant kitchen where old, congealed oil was removed by heating it up to make it liquid again and then draining it. He was in front of the drain when the machine experienced failure, and had both knees and his left shoulder deep-fat fried. He believes that 1d+1 burn is about right, because each hit averages 4.5 damage, which isn't quite enough to cripple an arm or a leg (though the potential is there), but three hits are enough to put you in the hospital with shock and have you off work for two weeks to heal.

I don't recommend reality-checking this to anyone.
Ouch.

A related piece of data - having a burst of petroleum flame flare across one's face really hurts, and even fairly shallow second degree burns take weeks to heal. Also, burned hair smells really bad.
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Old 01-21-2019, 11:49 PM   #56
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I don't recommend reality-checking this to anyone.
Been there, done that, although not as severely. Also a coworker fell and dipped her hand in the fryer, that was no good
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Old 01-22-2019, 02:45 AM   #57
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Ouch! Worst kitchen injury I ever had was bacon grease splash out of the pan and onto my bare foot. Could not wear my shoe for days due to blistering.
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Old 01-23-2019, 02:27 PM   #58
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Sometimes when I'm frying bacon or similar little bits of oil splash on my arm. It's painful (probably enough to cause shock) but there's no serious burn if I quickly wipe it off on my shirt, so probably not 1 HP worth of damage, because it probably happens a dozen times cooking up a batch of bacon and I'm not crippled by the cumulative damage, and I definitely don't have 24 HP. We all get 1 DR (enough to stop the minimum for burning damage) if there is an armor divisor, so maybe small flecks of burning oil have armor divisor 0.5?
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Old 01-23-2019, 02:31 PM   #59
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so maybe small flecks of burning oil have armor divisor 0.5?
Or they just don't do even 1 point of damage. Lots of things that don't cause meaningful damage are painful enough to plausibly cause shock.
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Old 01-23-2019, 05:21 PM   #60
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Is this going to turn into "Which parts of the book have we personally reality tested?"

I'm not going first because I don't have the book.
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