Oven Rack Guard

Is there anyone in the world who hasn't, at one time or another, reached into an oven and brushed their forearm against an unused — but very hot — rack, incurring what can be a fairly extensive and painful burn?

Never again.

From the website:

Ouch!

Our Cool–Touch Oven Rack Guard protects against injury from accidentally touching hot racks.

Made from the same fabric that protects firefighters, this neat washable guard snaps easily over the ends of racks.

Safe for up to 500° and fits all standard oven racks.

What took them so long?

Two for $32.98 here.

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Just for a hypothetical, let's say you choose not to add this nifty accessory to your oven racks.

Let's say you incur a burn.

What do you do?

Immediately — and I mean now, the sooner the better, drop it like it's hot (as it were) — put your burn under the coldest running water you can for five minutes by the clock.

Guess what?

You've just treated your burn with the most advanced and effective technique known to modern medicine.

Note: no ice, no soaking it in a sink full of cold water, no butter, no grease, no ointment, no aerosol spray, no nothing.

Just cold running water.

The physiology?

The running water absorbs heat and cools subdermal skin layers faster and better than anything else in the world.

The subcutaneous tissue continues to be overheated even when the skin is cold —that's why you keep the cold water running over the area, to chill the subsurface layers to as great an extent as possible.

This is the treatment of choice for any burn, by the way: if it's large or on your face or neck or trunk or legs, get undressed and jump into an ice–cold shower for five minutes.

Do it.

You'll thank me later.

Or your money cheerfully refunded.