primitive has close call with knife

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

kestrel91316  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Sat Apr-17-10 10:29 PM
Original message

Just had a close call with my super-sharp paring knife......
   
My avocado never ripened up well, so when I tried to whack the pit out with a chop from the knife, it didn't work. In the process of getting frustrated and careless I slashed the side of my left ring finger near the nail.

Muy stupido. Bled all over the kitchen counter before I realized how bad it was, lol. It'll be ok. I just stuck a bandaid and some neosporin on it.

Shameful, though. I'm supposed to know how to handle sharps safely.

I wouldn't trust a primitive with dulls, even.

Anyway, there's a secret to this, but it's probably too complicated for the primitives to understand.

Because I'm deaf, and balance and equilibrium are intellectual, rather than instinctive, I always take care to keep body appendages, if not the whole body, opposite the most likely direction of peril; when using a sharp knife, for example, I always cut away from the hand and fingers.

As incredible as it might seem, franksolich has never cut himself.

Warpy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Sun Apr-18-10 01:34 AM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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1. I hate it when the moon is in Klutz and I don't quite hit that pit dead on. Usually, I just pry the sucker out, since I'm mashing at least half the avocado for one thing while slicing the other half for something else.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Next time try holding the avocado under your chin.

Strictly for stab-ability--er--stability's sake.

No, really.

 

[BlueStateSaint]

Next time try holding the avocado under your chin.

Strictly for stab-ability--er--stability's sake.

No, really.

 

 

[Vagabond]

Hmmmm...

It seems that most people figure out to cut away from their body parts after cutting themselves once.  Considering the average age of the DUmpmonkies, we have further proof they never learn.  Fish have longer memories than most DUmmies.

[NHSparky]

What kind of brainless twit removes a pit from ANYTHING with a knife?  You dipshits ever hear of a spoon?

[Randy]

What kind of brainless twit removes a pit from ANYTHING with a knife?  You dipshits ever hear of a spoon?

But but da TeeVee cooks all whack that pit with a knife to stick the blade in longerways and wiggle wiggle da pit free all easy-peasy and stuff....

Of course they leave it on the cutting board when they stick it in....OH and they use a knife bigger and stiffer than a paring knife.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Of course they leave it on the cutting board when they stick it in....OH and they use a knife bigger and stiffer than a paring knife.

Dr. Freud, doctor Sigmund Freud, please call your office.

[jukin]

This crisis clearly demands paring knife regulation so we do not have an incident like this ever happen again.

[kenth]

LOL. A paring knife doesn't have the mass to sink into an avocado pit. It probably just glanced off. Although it probably is too bad he didn't use the correct knife. We could be reading about an amputation instead. Dang.

I remove avocado pits with a knife. Just a short whack and turn. Comes out perfectly clean. But I worked in a market for years and am comfortable around knives.

[Airwolf]

When I was a kid I was in the basement building a model and had a X-xacto knife to remove the parts. I cut my finger in the same way as the OP and It took a chunk of my skin with it near the fingernail. Not only did it bleep but that pain folling the cut certainly was a good reminder of how not to cut things.

[Tucker]

I remember reading something years ago about how males and females do certain things. One of them is using a knife. Males cut away from the body while females cut toward the body. Another one was putting your hand on your hips. Men have their fingers pointing to the front while women have their thumbs in front with their fingers pointing to the rear.

There's more but can't remember them at the moment.

[Chris]

Just a tip... those guys you see on TV?  They've been doing the same thing every day for twenty and thirty years.  When you do the same thing every day year in and year out, you learn all that fancy stuff.  I've worked with chefs (you go to school for it and spend four years working as an apprentice, they get to call you "chef" at work) that bring their own knives to work in fancy boxes and take them home again at night.  These are the kind of people that won't think twice about spending $300 on a single knife.  When it comes to some of the detailed work they do, you get what you pay for.  Try dicing a pepper to 1/16th of an inch.  It's not easy.

Don't try it at home, kids.

[GOBUCKS]

I've worked with chefs (you go to school for it and spend four years working as an apprentice, they get to call you "chef" at work) that bring their own knives to work in fancy boxes and take them home again at night.

Sounds like Jim, the Original Fry Cook at the Krusty Krab.

[Chris]

You do run into a lot of egos.  This one asshole (I swear the man was illiterate) got hired to run the restaurant where I worked after high school.  I think the only reason they hired him was he could carve ice.  Running a kitchen?  He was worthless.  Dude ran out of french fries and ice cream on a Friday night.  That's like the dollar store running out of dollars.

[BEG]

When I was a kid I was in the basement building a model and had a X-xacto knife to remove the parts. I cut my finger in the same way as the OP and It took a chunk of my skin with it near the fingernail. Not only did it bleep but that pain folling the cut certainly was a good reminder of how not to cut things.

When I was in third grade we were making imprints by carving a design in a piece of leather using a leather carving tool (it was shaped like a V).  The teacher said "if any of you kids cut yourself that means you were being careless" right as I cut my thumb with it. I cut it right below the nail.  I was afraid to tell her so I held it with my other hand (putting pressure on it with my other thumb) and asked her if I could go to the bathroom. I went to the nurse and she got it to stop bleeding then bandaged it up. Obviously the teacher noticed I cut myself when I got back to class. I can't remember what she said. I have a scar to this day and my nail grows out funny right above where I cut it. I must have screwed up the nail bed.

By the way, I get the pit out the same way the DUmmie does only I use a larger knife. I have never cut myself. I do have a hard time getting the pit off the knife because it is a little slimey and hard to hold onto. I usually take a paper towel and hold the pit to get it off the knife.
 

[JohnnyReb]

Outlaw avocado....they are not DUmmie proof.

[Karin]

jukin, not only do we need paring knife regulation, we need lots of funding for a nationwide educational campaign, including Super Bowl commercials.  STOP PARING KNIFE INJURIES NOW!!!

Anyway, me, I just purchase my guacamole. 

[GOBUCKS]

jukin, not only do we need paring knife regulation, we need lots of funding for a nationwide educational campaign, including Super Bowl commercials.  STOP PARING KNIFE INJURIES NOW!!!

Anyway, me, I just purchase my guacamole. 

Democrats would only favor common sense paring knife laws.
I've never cut an avocado in my life. In fact, I was probably in my thirties before I knew what an avocado looked like. Before that, if I heard the word, I probably thought it was some kind of tropical bird. "The jungle was alive with the loud courtship calls of male avocados." I've still never bought one, wouldn't know what to do with it if I did.