A FRY-UP fan has been left with a permanent ‘gravy chin’ after fat from a frying pan splashed across his face and gave him second-degree burns. Josh Thomond, 25, was cooking breakfast at his home in Leigh, Greater Manchester, when he accidentally dropped a sausage into a ‘puddle’ of oil in the pan. The 25-year-old’s […]
A FRY-UP fan has been left with a permanent ‘gravy chin’ after fat from a frying pan splashed across his face and gave him second-degree burns.
Josh Thomond, 25, was cooking breakfast at his home in Leigh, Greater Manchester, when he accidentally dropped a sausage into a ‘puddle’ of oil in the pan.
The 25-year-old’s girlfriend Sarah Quinn, 33, and her daughter Rosie, six, were in the next room and heard him shout out in pain as the oil splashed up and scalded his face.
After ten minutes of running the burns under cold water, Josh put his pain to the side and finished cooking and ate his breakfast.
But the burns left the accounts assistant with a mark where the piping hot oil dripped down his face – which one mate has branded a ‘gravy chin.’
Josh now fears he could be stuck with that nickname if he’s left with scars.
Josh, from Leigh, Greater Manchester, said: “I was making breakfast in the morning, cooking some hash browns and sausages.
“I made my girlfriend’s first and all the fat from the sausages came out in the pan so when I came to do mine there was a puddle of oil in the pan.
“The sausages were all stuck together so I was cutting them up over the pan and accidentally dropped one in from chest height and the oil splashed up straight onto my face.
“I had ducked down to try and catch it so I ended up making it even worse for myself by being closer to the pan as it splashed up.
“The first minute I was in shock and my skin was reacting with the heat but then it really started burning and stinging and became quite painful.
“I posted about it on Facebook with photos of the burns and had some funny comments – mates said it looked like a ‘gravy chin’ or ‘covid rash’.
“People said it looked worse in person which made me worry about it scarring.
“I know I’m not going to look like Beckham or anything but I don’t want it to be there every time I look in the mirror or meet someone new and have them ask what it is.”
Josh shouted out in pain as the oil burnt his chin and neck, catching the attention of his girlfriend in the next room.
The pair researched the best way to soothe the burn and spent ten minutes cupping handfuls of cold water onto the affected area until the pain eased slightly.
Josh then quickly returned his attention to his fry-up, gutted to have burnt his hashbrowns in the commotion.
He said: “When it happened I shouted and swore and Sarah shouted from the other room asking if I was okay and I just replied saying yes because I was a bit embarrassed.
“But after a few minutes it really started to burn so I went and showed her and said ‘actually I’ve really burnt my chin’.
“She googled the best thing to do and told me to put cold water on it so I stood at the kitchen sink cupping cold water in my hand and holding it on my chin.
“But after a bit I just really wanted my breakfast so I finished cooking and ate it. I was just annoyed that I’d burnt my hashbrowns because I was distracted.”
A ‘magic’ cream he was prescribed after calling 111 has helped clear up the burns down his chin and neck – leaving him with only very mild redness.
Josh said: “I was really lucky that it only got my chin and neck because it could have been my eyes or nose which would have been worse.
“I play professional snooker 25 hours a week and it’s my dream career so I was really worried about my eyes getting burnt because obviously you can’t play snooker without your eyes.
“Thankfully it was just my chin mainly and I got prescribed a really good cream that made it clear up in no time – it was like in a Disney movie when you sprinkle dust on something and it disappears.
“You can still see it a bit, it’s just like some redness around my chin but it’s not too bad, you wouldn’t notice straight away if I didn’t mention it.”
The fry-up lover refuses to be put off cooking his favourite fried breakfast every weekend, despite his painful experience, although he’s now much more ‘wary’.
He has shared photos of his burnt, blistered chin in the hopes of warning others about what can happen when cooking with hot oil.
Josh said: “I love a fry up, I cook breakfast every Saturday and Sunday morning without fail – a bacon, sausage and hashbrown bagel.
“Getting burned hasn’t put me off cooking breakfast but I’m definitely more wary.
“I always drain the pan now and put the oil in a cup to cool down and I don’t cut the sausages over the pan either, I’ve learnt my lesson the hard way.”
