Please share your cast iron injury stories to comfort my bf who disintegrated his foot

I don't have any embarrassing cast iron cooking stories but one time I was helping a friend remove a cast iron tub and that sumbitch was so heavy I tooted while lifting. In front of the homeowner. It was loud.

My ego was injured. Does that count?

Wasn't me, but one of my old roommates at one point was doing some deep frying... Almost burned down his entire apartment complex but they contained it to just his unit.

Hence why he found roommates.

Trying to impress your boss by flipping a shakshuka, dropping it on your foot and crying in front of him is honestly a hilarious mental image

I think my worst fuck up was washing my hands, not fully drying them, then putting on oven mitts to take a CI pizza out of the oven. I had no idea at the time but if your hands are wet, the oven mitts offer no protection. As soon as I grab the handle with the mitt my hand got steam burned. It was instantaneous. I luckily wasn't that hurt and it healed in a week or so

Oh man! Not cast iron but dropping things on foot related.

I went to a local bottle shop and was super stoked to find a craft beer I really enjoy from a brewery on the opposite end of the state (Big Papi by Commonwealth Brewing). I was carrying one of the packs inside and the ring top holder wasn’t secure so one of the 16oz cans landed right on my toe. Ended up fracturing a bone and causing the nail to die, actually had to get the toenail removed after that.

So yea, my favorite beer injured me. Please share that with him :)

I grab the scalding hot handle of my cast iron pan on a fairly regular basis, if that helps. Pretty sure at some point I'm just going to have the little hole in the handle of the lodge sort of branded into my palm.

Remember folks: hot metal looks like cold metal.

Had just moved it was October 2020, I have some chicken thighs in the oven with the cast iron. Go to grab it, can't find my oven mitt, go with a towel instead, towel slips the heel of my hand directly hits the cast iron. Searing meat sounds and smells, rush to get the pan up to the stove top so I don't drop it and break the floor or my foot.

Absolute giant burn on the heel of my hand, was the size of about a clementine. Let it bake and marinate closed filled with puss, popped weeks later to minimal pain and fresh skin.

Great pics though.

Its not cast iron related but i was cooking pizza's on my weber kettle grill with some friends over and 1) i stepped on a hot coal with no shoes one and gave my self a severe burn that i couldnt walk for a week and 2) the pizza bases stuck to the pizza stones because i didnt flour them and the pizzas were inedible so we ended up getting chicken and chips from the local takeaway.

this was the day after i spent hours cooking bbq chicken on the weber grill the night before for use on the pizzas

pan slipped off and fell directly onto his foot, which shattered

The good news is the pan will generally last multiple lifetimes. But the foot ... not so much.

So far I think I've only done, on the cast iron injuries, the occasional slight singe/burn. Because, well, cold and warm cast iron, and hot cast iron ... all looks pretty much the same.

Well, ... at least he left an impression on the boss that boss won't soon forget! ;-)

I got pretty badly burnt the last time I used my Lodge cast iron.

I had the burner on high (electric stove), and a thin layer of olive oil in the pan. The nice Wagyu steak I set in the skillet had to have had a bit of moisture on the bottom still as the oil splattered in several directions when the steak touched the oil. The oil got all over my right forearm, giving me 2.5 degree burns up & down the arm.

It's mostly healed now, though still bright pink and obvious against the farmers tan on the arm. It's not even the first time I had forearm cooking burns. So I was angry more than anything.

I managed to cut & enjoy my steak after calling for medical assistance. The steak turned amazing.

This is how I got nerve pain. Please watch out for it hurting abnormally. Any throbbing, growths, etc. It shouldn't be sensitive to the touch after getting the cast off.

I had nerve damage, 2 surgeries to remove the painful nerve. I dropped a pot on it and I had cancer in that same spot.

Just fyi, not trying to scare you.

If he does get nerve pain, ask for gabapentin. 3 weeks in and 0 pain.

I was working on reseasoning one of my pans. Had it all prepped to go in the oven, and in the course of rotating my arm so I could put the pan in the oven upside down, something in my forearm popped. I would have dropped the pan on the floor if it wasn't already 80% of the way into the oven, so all I did was make a ton of noise dropping it on the oven rack, on top of my cursing at the pain.

It hasn't healed fully yet, and I still have a fair amount of discomfort, despite doing all the stretches I was told to do by my doctor, for a month. I'm about to make a follow up appointment to see if they will do imaging to determine what I actually injured and how severely.

Now I use both hands with these heavy pans.

Idk… he cried in front of his boss so I’m not sure how much recovery from that is possible. Lolz.

Also, who the fuck is flipping shakshuka??? You just poach the eggs in your sauce and cover. There is no need to flip anything???

I once baked a casserole in a cast iron as I was in college and only pan I had lol

When I pulled it out of the oven I set it on the stove. A few minutes later. Being the slightly high college student I was I looked at the pan on the stove and thought oh I need to move that and without hesitation grabbed the handle of the cast iron that was just in the over for a hour @ 425 with my bare ass hand. Lifted it up about 1foot and dropped it back down

It was probably the worst burn of my life.

No incidents with my cast iron but definitely dumb incidents. Took chicken out of the oven. Went to see if it was done. Splashed boiling hot barbecue sauce on my hand and got a second degree burn. Still have a good discolored area on my hand and it's been a few years.

Another injury, I pulled the cord to an air compressor out of the socket. It wasn't easy to get to because of a pile of 2x4's my husband had stacked so I yanked it about a foot away from the outlet. One of the 2x4's came barreling down from the pile onto my foot. The edge impacted right between my 4th and 5th toes. It severed the ligament and had to be surgically repaired. The doctor said he'd never seen an injury like that.

I honestly am amazed I haven't had an accident with my cast iron although I almost lost one on my foot last week because I didn't use the helper handle so I'm sure there will be in the future.

I was replacing someone because she fell wrist first on her cast iron skillet.

3 broken bones. It was a year ago, she still hasnt come back to work.

I'm thinking if this happened to his boss (which is always possible, freak events like this have a way of happening out of nowhere, it seems) she/he would be crying too. Make sure he knows his boss is human. Another thing is how did she/he react in the moment? Was there concern there or did they just laugh at him? Unless she/he is cold-blooded, they were probably horrified upon realizing the severity of the situation.

Also, sometimes we humans just need compassion and understanding, while we lay around in the darkness; a reminder that the light is still there. Be there for him, sit/lay with him, get him his favorite ice cream and watch a movie with him, etc. It'll pass.

Oh damn. Who flips a cast iron pan? I usually flip it onto a plate and slide it back into the pan.

That would really hurt like fuck. Send his foot some condolences.

I've attempted to take the lid off my Creuset pot after it came out of the oven, ... without a mitt. That hurt like hell and left a mark.

I once burned my foot really badly. I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon. Sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself.

So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my cast iron grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious. It's good for me. It's a perfect way to start the day.

Not a burn story like most I've read, though I have a few of those stories as well.

We have a small kitchen with limited storage. I had two cast iron skillets stored on top of my refrigerator. They apparently were not pushed back far enough and when I opened the freezer door they fell. I caught them with my face. My husband just heard me yelp but couldn't see what happened since I stuck my face into the freezer in a combination of pain and embarrassment. I split the top of my nose open and had a pretty good bruise. But I managed to catch the skillets before they fell to the floor and crushed my toes.

This is just...insult on injury on...poor fella. You should smash his nuts with a teflon coated pan so he doesn't mistake who the true enemy is.

My empathetic head shake from afar is with your man on this day.

I had just finished 6 rounds of chemo and was on drugs waiting for my stem cell transplant. I decided to season a skillet.

I had a mitt on my left hand and reached right in that 500 degree oven and took out the skillet with my right hand. Was a pretty big deal to the docs since my immune system was very compromised at the time

Years ago when we only got to see each other once a month, I was cooking a skillet cookie for my fiancé (now wife), but while I brought my cast iron, I was using her kitchen and her oven mitt. When I pulled the cookie, the mitt had a weak spot and I dropped/let go of the skillet out of shock.

I have always had fast reflexes. In this case, it meant that my bare hand caught the skillet out of the air before it hit the ground. The blisters on my hand required medical intervention and for at least a decade you could make out the “loop” scar on my thumb and forefinger (new scar tissue makes it harder to make out these days). The attending physician actually brought in residents to look at the initial burns with my permission because (as she said) “I’ve never seen this complex a burn pattern out of a textbook.”

So, there went that romantic evening.

If your seasoning joke didn't work, there's no hope.

Sorry to hear that though, can't imagine the pain from such an accident.

The first time I used my cast iron, I forgot to put the silicone handle on and then went to hold the skillet so I could stir it after it had already heated up and was cooking some. Wasn't a fun night but was fortunate it wasn't too severe.

Not cast iron but once I stupidly dropped a full large pot of boiling water because just a little bit got on my hand when I lifted it up and I reacted by just dropping it. All the water and noodles which I think was possibly spaghetti had poured all over my hands, feet and the floor.

I'm also a food service worker who cooks a lot at home and probably spent 80% or more of my life in kitchens so my arms are covered in scars from burns. They are mostly from me being short and trying to reach over the edges of hot dishes and into them to get to the food resulting in my forearm touching the sides yet I keep doing it. Usually this is a fryer basket or air fryer basket but sometimes it's a large pot. Anything with tall walls that get really hot.

If it helps even those of us working with food daily for years and years still have fuck ups that result in injuries sometimes. Dropping things, slipping on something on the hard tile floors most kitchens have or burning ourselves are all common.