It's a return to the RAW Cooking Quiz. Last quiz was over
fire hazard safety in the kitchen. This one covers physical burns.
1. Multiple Choice: Frying butter that splashes up and hits your thumb hurts:
a) Excruciatingly
b) Tremendously
c) A little
d) Like a mofo
e) a,b, and d, but not c
2. True or False: Breathe, breathe, breathe
a) True
b) False
3. True or False: As your thumb is frying, it's useful to remember in
Fight Club where Tyler Durden doused the Narrator with chemicals to create chemical burn in order for him to embrace intense, physical pain.
a) True
b) False
4. True or False: It helps to quell the intense pain of the thumb if you hit something. Hard.
a) True
b) False
5. Multiple Choice: You've heard that you should douse a burn with cold water because you will blister. Do you:
a) Use warm water as you've been told to
b) Say 'screw the blister' and use cold water for the most
GLORIOUS FEELING OF RELIEF EVER
c) Use baking soda because that works on everything
6. True or False: Physical pain caused in the process of making dinner does NOT make it taste that much better for the effort.
a) True
b) False
7. True or False: Good girlfriends are impressed by battle scars from the kitchen
a) True
b) False
Answers:
1. E - And more!
2. B, False - Scream, yell, curse, repeat
3. B, False -
Fight Club, while a great movie, is full of crap
4. B, False - It's benefit is negligible. It takes the pain away from the burn briefly and replaces it with a hurt hand. Then, however, both hurt. By the next day, you still feel the thumb but not the hand.
5. Choose your own answer. I choose
B and would do it all over again.
6. A, True - At all.
7. A, True - Ahem... they
ARE!
Next week's show: How am I going to top this? I hope I don't...
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