The clove will melt into the bread's hot surface.
Its very thick atmosphere obscures its hot surface from direct observation at visual wavelengths.
If power-steering fluid touches a hot surface, it can catch fire.
Acute pain can arise from breaking a bone or touching a hot surface.
"It sprayed oil onto a hot surface and caught on fire," the official, Lt. Cmdr.
"When you press it against a very hot surface, you maximize the Maillard reaction.
Rub one side of each slice a few times with the cut side of the garlic clove so that it melts into the bread's hot surface.
Here's another -- not from Abu Ghraib: A detainee "had been hooded, handcuffed in the back, and made to lie face down, on a hot surface during transportation.
Reflexes proper, or reflex-arc movements, include responses such as the immediate withdrawal of the hand on touching a hot surface.
Both of us trained our binoculars and it occurred that the woodpecker was unnaturally hopping about like it was treading on a hot surface.
In a phenomenon called the Leidenfrost effect, or film boiling, a layer of vapor forms beneath the droplet, keeping it elevated above the hot surface like the cushion of a hovercraft.
