

I’ve seen video of someone pulling stuff out of frying oil with his bare hands. This was made easy for him because all his nerve endings in his hands were dead because he had been putting them into frying oil, but still, I never would have believed anyone to do something that … I don’t know what to call it, callous maybe.
I tried looking for it and I found a YouTube video of some Indian street vendor doing it, but iirc my old video had been of some British guy. There’s more than one apparently.
The loss of sensitivity doesn’t happen all at once, plenty of cooks and serving staff have much higher tolerances than non-cooks/waiters. I’d expect that this is at least partly from damaged nerves, but while they have reduced sensitivity, iirc then the British guy said that he had lost all sensation in his hands.