Like if you were to touch a really hot pan and then instantly run it under cold water.. I was told that it didn’t stop the burning process, it just made the burn like stunned ? So it’s better to use lukewarm water ..?🙂
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To use a macabre but apt example, if you know how cooking a steak works, you know exactly how a burn works.
Surface temps are higher than internal temps, cooking the outside at high heat will eventually transfer heat inwards (why internal temps keep rising after taking it off the heat and resting is important) and cooking it for longer makes it drier.
Heat continues to transfer into the flesh even after you take your appendage off the heat source, because surface temps are higher than internal temps. What you’ve got to do is give the heat somewhere cooler to transfer to than your insides, so cool water. Since our blood is constantly moving, it is efficient at carrying away heat, so you need something better to carry away the heat to somewhere that’s not you, so RUNNING water is recommended, and not something static like ice or a water bath.
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