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Kerfuffle

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Keith_W

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I am probably one of very very few ASR members to know what burning human flesh smells like. When I was a medical student, surgeons were using diathermy knives. This works by arcing electricity from a small point thus cutting flesh whilst sealing it at the same time so there is less bleeding. The smell is a savoury-sweet, a bit like cured ham. It was enough to put me off pork for quite some time.
 

DonR

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I am probably one of very very few ASR members to know what burning human flesh smells like. When I was a medical student, surgeons were using diathermy knives. This works by arcing electricity from a small point thus cutting flesh whilst sealing it at the same time so there is less bleeding. The smell is a savoury-sweet, a bit like cured ham. It was enough to put me off pork for quite some time.
Oh, I think there are plenty of us here who have smelled burning flesh. Spend enough time around a soldering iron and that whiff is unmistakable,
 
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