[Sca-cooks] Kitchen wear, was Very carefully not panicking...

[Gorgeous Muiredach]

>And Muiredach answered with:
>>You want BELOW the ankle.  Otherwise it's not quite as safe.
>
>Well, i usually wear cotton knit leggings (that come to my ankle) and
>cotton socks under my linen sirwal (Near Eastern pants). My sirwal
>are quite narrow at the bottom, but they have extra long legs, so
>they pool over the instep. Do you think this enough protection?

I'm having trouble visualising it.  If it's a legging, it seems like it
would be directly on the skin (or over the socks, hence just two layers
directly on the skin).  This, to me, isn't as safe as it could be.  Pants
that don't touch the skin directly offer more "buffer" for boiling liquids
falling down.  Often just long enough to cool down enough to avoid the huge
nasty burns.  Note that this statement is entirely empirical, and not
scientific at all :-)


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