what’s your least favorite tool/machine to use – and why is it a mandolin!?
what’s your least favorite tool/machine to use – and why is it a mandolin!?
by strengthoflouise
30 Comments
brasschaos
i fear no man, but that thing it scares me
Lime_in_the_Coconut_
Loss of limbs
ThisIsMySorryFor2004
I fear people that own these things. In a restaurant setting, sure, of course, I get it, but I’ve seen people with even like big sawlike mandolins at their home and I just wonder do these people not fear for their fingers? Then I remember most people don’t cook drunk as shit so that’s probably the issue here
CaptainExplosions
These fuckers are the reason I have my own chainmail glove in my knife roll. No more fear of being bitten, only the comfortable defiance and surety of woven metal protecting your fist.
ServerLost
Used mine once, carefully analysed the operational effectiveness of that weird spikey dome thing they supply with it then never touched the evil contraption ever again.
BoJoHoBorg
Pepperoni fingers
ChefCuda
I used to work at a place that did a shaved brussel sprout salad that got some good press and sales absolutely blew up. EVERYBODY in the kitchen had bandaids on thumb-index-middle fingers and the look of disgust we all shared for those devil machines burned like a wet towel on sizzle plate. 0/10, do not recommend
chrisostermann
When it clicked that the deli slicer did the same thing with cleaner cuts and better safety features, my mind was blown. Spinny blade go brrrr, knife in a board go ouch.
Relative_Mammoth_896
I’ve never gotten cut by a mandolin.
MediocreFox
I saw the chef had brought one into the kitchen one day and the first thing i asked him was ‘Don’t you like your fingers’. It took him 2/3 days to cut himself and has not been touched since.
daved1975
I love mine, don’t get all the fear off them just don’t be an idiot and you won’t get cut
SaltyNorth8062
Just the image alone is giving me fucking anxiety
literaln0thing
The meat slicer at the deli I worked at literally gave me nightmares
Left_Fox_7468
Not only is it soooo easy to get cut on but also the damn blade is always dull as shit so when you do inevitably lose an appendage on it, it hurts like a bitch and scars forever
Z3nteck
The mandolin is the one thing in the house I have flat out forbidden my partner from using (lets just say her hand eye coordination isn’t great).
crooshtoost
It’s actually slower to use a mandolin for slicing if you factor in the time getting your finger tips reattached
Bitcracker
I just did a bus bin of cucumbers for gerkin salat. We catered an October fest thing. My fingers survived 💪
bigdaddyeb
Mandolins are great with good technique and concentration, least favourite is cling film, it evokes a feral response in me when it doesn’t do what I want it to do 😂
ImGunnaFuckYourMom
I love my mandolin. I throw on a Kevlar glove and don’t worry about shit
LayeredMayoCake
I was always taught to slice away from yourself. But for mandolin, you must slice yourself into it.
sapperbloggs
Oh yeah, I have some very good reasons to hate these fuckers
I actually have one at home. I only use it for Christmas and Thanksgiving. I inevitably cut myself every Christmas and Thanksgiving.
jeffmangumshandguns
Not once, in over 10 years have I cut myself on one. Take all the wood away, I won’t knock
cynical-rationale
Knew a girl that got under her fingernail. No thanks.
Tharrowone
I got one as a gift. I used it once and freaked out enough to have never touched it again.
ExistingClerk8605
I lost my fingertip to one of those bastards.
When i asked from the kitchen to the living room “yo mom, can you finish these real quick” “You cut yourself?” “Yeah…..” “ER bad?” “Honestly idk” *held my very bloody arm into the living room*
Everybody but my girlfriend got up and rushed over. She didnt even look. Psycopathic bitch.
30 Comments
i fear no man, but that thing
it scares me
Loss of limbs
I fear people that own these things. In a restaurant setting, sure, of course, I get it, but I’ve seen people with even like big sawlike mandolins at their home and I just wonder do these people not fear for their fingers? Then I remember most people don’t cook drunk as shit so that’s probably the issue here
These fuckers are the reason I have my own chainmail glove in my knife roll. No more fear of being bitten, only the comfortable defiance and surety of woven metal protecting your fist.
Used mine once, carefully analysed the operational effectiveness of that weird spikey dome thing they supply with it then never touched the evil contraption ever again.
Pepperoni fingers
I used to work at a place that did a shaved brussel sprout salad that got some good press and sales absolutely blew up. EVERYBODY in the kitchen had bandaids on thumb-index-middle fingers and the look of disgust we all shared for those devil machines burned like a wet towel on sizzle plate.
0/10, do not recommend
When it clicked that the deli slicer did the same thing with cleaner cuts and better safety features, my mind was blown. Spinny blade go brrrr, knife in a board go ouch.
I’ve never gotten cut by a mandolin.
I saw the chef had brought one into the kitchen one day and the first thing i asked him was ‘Don’t you like your fingers’. It took him 2/3 days to cut himself and has not been touched since.
I love mine, don’t get all the fear off them just don’t be an idiot and you won’t get cut
Just the image alone is giving me fucking anxiety
The meat slicer at the deli I worked at literally gave me nightmares
Not only is it soooo easy to get cut on but also the damn blade is always dull as shit so when you do inevitably lose an appendage on it, it hurts like a bitch and scars forever
The mandolin is the one thing in the house I have flat out forbidden my partner from using (lets just say her hand eye coordination isn’t great).
It’s actually slower to use a mandolin for slicing if you factor in the time getting your finger tips reattached
I just did a bus bin of cucumbers for gerkin salat. We catered an October fest thing. My fingers survived 💪
Mandolins are great with good technique and concentration, least favourite is cling film, it evokes a feral response in me when it doesn’t do what I want it to do 😂
I love my mandolin. I throw on a Kevlar glove and don’t worry about shit
I was always taught to slice away from yourself. But for mandolin, you must slice yourself into it.
Oh yeah, I have some very good reasons to hate these fuckers
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Thumb, part 1 https://imgur.com/a/f4yzJ84
Thumb, part 2 https://imgur.com/gallery/UKuPTv4
Ah, the finger eater.
I actually have one at home. I only use it for Christmas and Thanksgiving. I inevitably cut myself every Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Not once, in over 10 years have I cut myself on one. Take all the wood away, I won’t knock
Knew a girl that got under her fingernail. No thanks.
I got one as a gift. I used it once and freaked out enough to have never touched it again.
I lost my fingertip to one of those bastards.
When i asked from the kitchen to the living room “yo mom, can you finish these real quick”
“You cut yourself?”
“Yeah…..”
“ER bad?”
“Honestly idk”
*held my very bloody arm into the living room*
Everybody but my girlfriend got up and rushed over.
She didnt even look.
Psycopathic bitch.
Still with her tho.
Where I work, we call ours the “Widowmaker.”
Nice thin finger spindles
You have to keep your hand flat.
Spicy slicer