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I really hope this isn’t really that common. Like how bad do you have to be with a knife and do you really need someone to tell you it’s going to be a tad difficult to cut a frozen piece of bread?

Basic safety tip: Don’t pull or point pointy bits towards your meaty bits.

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This reminds me of a really interesting safety tip in the woodworking world: A chisel is always a two handed tool. Either two hands on the tool itself, or one hand on the chisel and another holding a mallet. Either way, the piece needs to be in a vice or otherwise rendered immobile.

Every dumb thing I've done with a chisel has been trying to use it at an odd angle or stabilizing the piece with one hand and holding the chisel in the other.

Now I have the idea of a kitchen vice hmmmmm

That would be very useful for all the times when you use a kitchen chisel.

A significant number of my vices are indulged in the kitchen.

Seriously, the worst cut I have had has been when cutting a loaf of bread with the wrong knife. It was a fresh loaf as well. Cut half into one finger tip and a sliced a piece off the tip of another. It just takes one moment of frustrated bread-doesn't-cut-wrangling and a slip.

My lesson from it: buy a serrated bread knife instead of trying to make do with whatever is in the at the time super minimal kitchen drawer. Saw the bread instead of trying to cut it.

To be honest, I would have laughed at the thought of cutting myself whilst cutting bread of all things as well before it happened.

My worst kitchen accident happened cutting bread too. I was trying to cut through a stale loaf using a (brand new!) serrated knife, got lost in thought for one second, and the knife slipped of the bread and into the tip of my finger. Seriously debated going to the urgent care, and took months for feeling to return in the tip.

My takeaway was to be vigilant at being 100% focused whenever using knives.

My sister in law cut off a finger cutting a bagel (it was sewed back on). Seriously. I thought she was just careless (and has way too sharp of knives), but maybe it’s more common than I thought?

Sharp knives are far better than dull knives. They don't slip. Don't require too much force. With the added benefit of when you cut your finger off they can sew it back on from a clean cut :D

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