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"  Welcome to Eat Like a Man&amp;#039;s 2012 Holiday Survival Guide, wherein we tackle some of the season&amp;#039;s thorniest issues in food and drink to help you make it to January in one piece. They say you learn something from every failed relationship, no matter how disastrous. Usually this refers to emotional growth. In the case of my college boyfriend, I gained something far more valuable: the world&amp;#039;s best curative for a terrible kitchen burn.  Kitchen burns multiply around the holidays, when we&amp;#039;re all cooking more than usual while drinking more than is advisable, and often distractedly playing host, to boot. Would you believe that the best answer to accidentally pouring scalding soup on your fingers or grabbing onto a scorching pot handle is actually more booze? Do like so: As soon as the burn occurs, immediately remove the vodka from your freezer, fill a shot glass, and submerge your injured digit therein (for especially bad burns, you may want to drink a shot first). Leave it marinating in there for at least 10 minutes, switching out the vodka if it gets warm.  Here&amp;#039;s the particular genius of chilled alcohol: Its freezing point is well below 32 degrees (-173, to be exact), meaning that it gets colder in liquid form than water ever can. The deep cold not only soothes and numbs a burn better than simply applying ice, but actually staves off the inflamation and damage that cause nasty blisters and scars. It&amp;#039;s an old Swedish remedy that the boyfriend learned from his grandfather \u2014 especially apt for college, when it&amp;#039;s very possible that you would have vodka and a shot glass on hand, but no ice or running water. Today, I can honestly say that chilled vodka is the reason that my hands don&amp;#039;t look like Freddy Krueger&amp;#039;s face.  HOLIDAYS 2012: Hacks, Recipes, and Wisdom on Eat Like a Man &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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