Just reading this makes my hand hurt. Almost exactly the same happened to me sometime 1980, while I was home for the weekend from the German Air Force (conscription, 15 months). The pot handle was poured around a metal skeleton, and had worn enough so the metal came to the surface ... on the underside where you couldn't see it. The moment I touched it (and the reflex to avoid hot stuff fired), the pot dropped on the left side, and the soup poured over my left hand. And it was thick soup, so it stuck to the skin and transferred quite a bit more heat than thin soup would have.Fel wrote:Earlier today I ended up with first and second degree burns on most of my left hand...and it was a relatively silly kitchen accident. I slipped while carrying a bowl of boiling-hot soup, and when my knee hit the floor, I tilted the bowl and spilled most of it over my hand. If you've ever suffered a liquid burn, then you know what it feels like.
I don't remember all the details, but I lost a bit of skin from this, and for years afterwards, my left hand was significantly browner than my arm or my right hand.
Get well soon.