msomnipotent
03-18-2013, 06:50 PM
The backstory:
I tried a new recipe which called for broiling the meat in the oven while still in the pan, which I never did before. I took it out of the oven with my left hand (with an oven mitt), removed the meat, and then promptly picked up the pan with my bare right hand. And then I stood there a minute thinking, "why does this hurt???" before I threw the pan on my freshly mopped kitchen floor. Just to make sure I really screwed up my hand but good, I panicked and put an ice pack directly onto my burned skin and it stuck. It took me a while to find the burn kit, because it turns out I had all the burn stuff in my car. So all in all, my hand was burned pretty good by the time I got some BurnFree dressing on it. Blisters were already forming on several areas, except where I had to rip the ice pack off of my skin.
The review:
I'm surprised I was able to open it with a burned hand. Once I opened it, a bunch of ooze dripped out of the packet and made things slippery to handle. Be prepared for a mess. I was also expecting some sort of gauze material, but this was a type of foam. The 2x6 dressing is just long enough to cover my palm and weave between 3 of my fingers, which is where most of the burn was. Again, it was oozy and messy, and I had to wrap my hand in a clean kitchen towel because it soaked through the gauze I had. It also didn't seem to do anything for the pain. I didn't see any ingredient listed on the label that I recognize as a pain reliever, so you probably want to pack some Advil with this in your kit. There was a separate bottle of gel in the kit I bought that said it relieved pain, but I was momentarily out of my mind and didn't think to use it. I honestly do not know if the bottle contained the same ingredients as the dressing because the wrapper was thrown out. And it might have just been because my hand was raw, but my hand seemed to hurt a lot worse once the dressing was on it for at least the first hour. The dressing stayed moist for the 3 hours I kept it on my hand and probably would have stayed moist a lot longer. By the time I took it off, the areas where I saw blisters forming only had white patches on them, and the blisters never formed. Three days later, there is nothing but a bright pink patch of skin where the ice pack stuck. It still kind of hurts and I can feel the skin pull every time I move my hand, but I really don't think that it could have been avoided.
Considering that the pan was probably at least 500 degrees, I think this did amazingly well. Well worth the money, IMO. I will be ordering more. I originally bought a small kit from beprepared.com, but I think I will shop around and buy a slightly larger kit. This does have an expiration date, but I bought this at least a year ago, maybe 2 years, and expiration date is 2/14.
I'm also going to keep some in the kitchen and the bath room. I burn myself with my curling iron with surprising frequency. Oh, I also kept an ice pack on my hand the whole time, on top of the kitchen towel, which probably helped as well.
I tried a new recipe which called for broiling the meat in the oven while still in the pan, which I never did before. I took it out of the oven with my left hand (with an oven mitt), removed the meat, and then promptly picked up the pan with my bare right hand. And then I stood there a minute thinking, "why does this hurt???" before I threw the pan on my freshly mopped kitchen floor. Just to make sure I really screwed up my hand but good, I panicked and put an ice pack directly onto my burned skin and it stuck. It took me a while to find the burn kit, because it turns out I had all the burn stuff in my car. So all in all, my hand was burned pretty good by the time I got some BurnFree dressing on it. Blisters were already forming on several areas, except where I had to rip the ice pack off of my skin.
The review:
I'm surprised I was able to open it with a burned hand. Once I opened it, a bunch of ooze dripped out of the packet and made things slippery to handle. Be prepared for a mess. I was also expecting some sort of gauze material, but this was a type of foam. The 2x6 dressing is just long enough to cover my palm and weave between 3 of my fingers, which is where most of the burn was. Again, it was oozy and messy, and I had to wrap my hand in a clean kitchen towel because it soaked through the gauze I had. It also didn't seem to do anything for the pain. I didn't see any ingredient listed on the label that I recognize as a pain reliever, so you probably want to pack some Advil with this in your kit. There was a separate bottle of gel in the kit I bought that said it relieved pain, but I was momentarily out of my mind and didn't think to use it. I honestly do not know if the bottle contained the same ingredients as the dressing because the wrapper was thrown out. And it might have just been because my hand was raw, but my hand seemed to hurt a lot worse once the dressing was on it for at least the first hour. The dressing stayed moist for the 3 hours I kept it on my hand and probably would have stayed moist a lot longer. By the time I took it off, the areas where I saw blisters forming only had white patches on them, and the blisters never formed. Three days later, there is nothing but a bright pink patch of skin where the ice pack stuck. It still kind of hurts and I can feel the skin pull every time I move my hand, but I really don't think that it could have been avoided.
Considering that the pan was probably at least 500 degrees, I think this did amazingly well. Well worth the money, IMO. I will be ordering more. I originally bought a small kit from beprepared.com, but I think I will shop around and buy a slightly larger kit. This does have an expiration date, but I bought this at least a year ago, maybe 2 years, and expiration date is 2/14.
I'm also going to keep some in the kitchen and the bath room. I burn myself with my curling iron with surprising frequency. Oh, I also kept an ice pack on my hand the whole time, on top of the kitchen towel, which probably helped as well.