*googles* Oh, those look much less unwieldy than my oven mitts! ...Which I wasn't using anyway, because the crockpot lid has a touch-safe plastic handle, and I was not intending to drop it. *headdesk*

The burn is on the skin over the metacarpal leading to my thumb, about halfway between my wrist and thumb knuckle -- and toward the back of the hand rather than the palm -- so it's significantly less awkward than it easily could have been if I'd had my hand angled slightly differently.