Ow. Ouch. Stop that!

[desperance]

In other news, I apparently cannot get used to pan handles too hot to, y'know, handle. In the UK we solved this problem decades ago. Seriously, it's more than twenty years since I had a stovetop pan I couldn't just pick up without thinking. Here I am having to learn to think, to remember don't do that, and it's taking too damn long...

*wafts scorched palm, and dances like no cat is watching*