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

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> 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 :-)

This is why I wear long t-tunics and scoff at people who tell me wearing
jeans to cook in is 'Much Safer'. We had a head cook spill hot water on
her leg and get badly burned before she could skin out of her jeans-- I
had the same thing happen, hitched up the tunic and undertunic, kicked off
my shoes and stuck my leg under the cold water spigot outside. No
blisters.

- Jadwiga, who wears t-tunics and italian ren. :)

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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