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A Lesson in Knife Skills
By Project Recipe, bon appetit, on Fri Aug 8, 2008 12:44pm PDTFrom my own experience, most knife injuries come from one of four sources. Either a) you're using the wrong size or kind of knife b) you're not holding it correctly c) you're distracted or d) the knife in question is duller than you were expecting.
Take my own biggest knife injury, which took place in a restaurant kitchen in 1984 where I was working prep. For some reason my comfortable all-purpose 10" chef's knife wasn't available, and I was using this ridiculous F. Dick monster 14" chef's knife. I lost attention for a moment and misplaced my ring fingernail in a big pile of tomato concasee. Unfortunately, I think even the diners heard me yell. I have a voice that projects, you know?
So let's talk through these problem sources.
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