Bill Walton

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.

American Athlete

Holly Hunter

Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.

American Actress

Amy Lowell

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

American Poet

Kurt Braunohler

It is an intern's job to go for coffee for anyone who asks, preferably delivering it scalding hot and cupped in your bare hands!

American Comedian

Christopher Buckley

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

American Novelist

Thomas Fuller

English Clergyman

Often used in the context of warning or safety to prevent accidents with hot fluids.

Safety Caution

Can be used metaphorically to describe a very intense but brief emotional experience.

Metaphorical Use

Used in medical or first-aid scenarios, describing skin injuries.

Medical Context

Can indicate varying degrees of skin damage: a 'mild scald' vs. a 'severe scald'.

Severity Levels

Refers to a quick heat treatment in cooking, not just burning.

Cooking Technique

Scalding milk can affect the flavor and texture in recipes, making it smoother.

Flavor Impact

 and found two rare beetles underneath. He’d just taken one beetle in each hand when he spotted a third beetle. Stashing one of the insects in his mouth for safekeeping, he reached for the new specimen – when a sudden spray of hot, bitter fluid scalded his tongue.

Why don’t poisonous...

 between over here is scalding hot and freezing cold. And this whole ecosystem wasn't even known about until 33 years ago. And it completely threw science on its head. It made scientists rethink where life on Earth might have actually begun.

Mike deGruy: Hooked by...

 scalding nastiest of neighbors most unwelcoming to guests where LED would melt to silver puddles on a surface of volcanic scars leaving only Mars some say our final chance of finding life elsewhere named after a god of war

A Moment in the Sun by...

 geological features especially its spectacular geysers most notably the one called old faithful which shoots huge jets of scalding water into the air just over once an hour