On 5/15/2011 12:39 PM, Malcolm wrote:
Hi,
Please be cautious about throwing flour on any flames, there's quite a
history of explosions in flour mills due to the amount of flour in the
air suddenly igniting. This lead to new laws governing the amount of
flour dust allowed in the mills.
Absolutely. When I was young we would take gallon paint can, and affix
a long tube to the bottom, set it down and put a pile of flour over the
opening where the tube came in, and set a burning candle in there. The
we would blow on the tube, and the can would explode like a cherry
bomb. Pretty cool.
Since I live with wood heat - i.e. a wood stove - I've had occasion to
find this out by tossing in flour and getting a pretty good "WHOOSH"!
One thing to be very careful of is throwing water on the fire of a wood
stove. I had a friend blow up his house doing that. Hot coals plus water
gives off water gas, carbon monoxide and hydrogen, a very explosive and
poisonous mixture.
Marshall
I've never tried flour for burns, but I have used ice-water which kills
the pain and seems to help with rapid healing.
Take care,
Malcolm
On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 12:56 +0000, craehow...@juno.com wrote:
This came from a very reliable
source and is worth distributing.
Once I was cooking some
corn and stuck my fork in
the boiling
water to see if the corn
was ready. I missed and my
hand went
into the boiling water....
A friend of mine, who was a
Vietnam vet, came into the
house, just
as I was screaming, and
asked me if I had some
plain old flour...I
pulled out a bag and he
stuck my hand in it. He
said to keep my hand
in the flour for 10 mins.
which I did. He said that
in Vietnam, this guy
was on fire and in their
panic, they threw a bag of
flour all over him to
put the fire out...well, it
not only put the flour out,
but he never even
had a blister!!!!
SOOOO, long story short, I
put my hand in the bag of
flour for 10 mins,
pulled it out and had not
even a red mark or a
blister and absolutely NO
PAIN. Now, I keep a bag of
flour in the fridge and
every time I burn myself,
I use the flour and never
ONCE have I ever had a red
spot, a burn or a
blister!
*Cold flour feels even
better than room
temperature flour.
Miracle, if you ask me.
Keep a bag of white flour
in your fridge and you
will be happy you did. I
even burnt my tongue and
put the flour on it for
about 10
mins. and the pain was gone
and no burn. Try it! BTW,
don't run your burn area
under cold water first,
just put it right into the
flour for 10 mins and
experience a miracle
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