[Sca-cooks] Treating burns- was Re: kitchen accidents

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jun 22, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Saint Phlip wrote:

> The idea of using cold water for a burn is to stop the initial
> burning. Like a roast, the body politic keeps burning until the temp
> is neutralized. Ice water is ideal, initially, because it stops the
> burn FAST, but anything fairly cool will help.

I cringed to note that Gordon Ramsey was putting hot tap water --  
evidently with as much sympathy and good intention as he could muster  
-- on the burn on the young lady's arm.

Adamantius