eli5: Do we actually start to get cooked when we get third degree burns?

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No cannibalism intended lol. Completely out of curiosity.

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>No cannibalism intended lol. Completely out of curiosity.

You have been cooked the moment you suffer **any** degree of burns. The fact that you got burned means that parts of your body got hot enough to have components change irreversibly/have their proteins denature – to have been *cooked*.

The “degree” of the burn only serves to measure the severity by giving a scope of how *much* of you got cooked.

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