Dan Abel wrote:
>
> In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
> > That's one kitchen concept I just do not understand. It's not okay to
> > carry a pot of cold water to the stove, but it's okay to carry a pot
> > of hot water back to the sink? <boggle>
>
> My son got burned pretty badly this summer trying to dump a pot of
> boiling pasta and water into a strainer. It was pasta for 130 people at
> church camp, and there were two of them holding it. They saved the
> pasta, but my son got burned on his arm, thigh and foot. He feels fine
> now, but it still looks ugly.

This is why they have pasta strainer baskets that you cook the pasta in
and then just lift the strainer out of the cooking pot.