Name a kitchen tool that seems fairly harmless at first glance but will absolutely wreck you if you’re not paying attention. I’ll start:
Purple one sliced me today and the red and gray and bit me pretty good a couple times with the lever mech. In the kitchen they're great, as a dishy they can get fucked.
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PoorDamnChoices
The box grater demands a blood sacrifice every so often. It’s just a rite of passage at this point.
Sanquinity
Any work bench. Some of those edges can be really damn sharp…
_j-string_
Ya I do NOT masturbate with these anymore.
Lycaeides13
Corner of the counter
ugricicle
The big fucken table mounted can openers are the bane of my existence.
SnackFridge
star piping tips have given me a very bad day!
_fiddlehead_
The round hand held pizza cutters. Ours are sharpened weekly and if you are holding a pizza still while cutting it and barely tap your finger on the blade? Ugggghhh. The index finger on my left hand has so many scars.
Also those scoops also suck in the dish cause you WILL spray your face with water when rinsing them.
graaaaaaaam
On of my most visible scars is from the edge of a 5 gallon pail – I was taking a lid off and somehow I smashed my knuckle on the edge of the pail and tore off most of the skin. Fucking sucked.
cheffloyd
The mandolin is your closest ally and worst enemy. It will mark you regardless….
Edit* Also the edges of hotel pans…. especially new ones..
TurboDelight
Getting got by the serrated edge of a fresh food wrap/foil box sucks ass
Bladrak01
I’ve cut the hell out of a finger on a peeler.
Equivalent-Excuse-80
Veg peeler. Open cans and their lids. Serrated cutter on plastic wrap. Low protruding door hinges on lowboys
Naive-Impression-373
Hotel pan edges
MacellumMycelium
Ticket rail
Particular-Wrongdoer
Steel scrubby, if you know you know.
Severe_Adhd_Squirrel
Rubber spatula, great when in the right hands. In the hands of a line cook, they leave welts and memories.
Dry_Meaning_3129
Corrugated metal lids for to go/catering. Sliced many fingertips
firesoups
Literally I have a blood blister right now from a god damn scoop.
kingoftheives
Amazed that none of you mentioned the food wrap, sitting there all pretty and clean in its box. Food wrap is just waiting to slice you with its nasty dirty blade.
AManHasNoShame
If you ever get a steel brush bristle in your body, as a splinter, or under a nail, know that it is some Cenobite shit.
RainMakerJMR
The inside hinge of the tongs cuts my palm like a scissors every now and again. I try not to buy those tongs anymore but they always show up
Classic-Month-5184
Tin foil “paper” cuts run DEEP
Donttrustaskinnychef
Not a tool but this B will slice the back of your hand when you’re wiping it down.
This comment section is triggering so much ptsd I didn’t know I had.
chrishydro420
Fucking mother fucking god damn piece of shit satans wrap cutters. Evil sons of bitches
JoefromOhio
My personal favorite experience is picking up a hot pan out of the oven with a towel that wasn’t as dry as I thought it was… it’s betrayal with a side of panic because the heat transfer is delayed by just long enough that you’ve already committed to picking it up so you have to scramble for a place to put the entire tray back down without spilling the contents while your hand cooks
heftybagman
Magnetic knife strip on a line. Had a dude slice himself to the bone on his forearm when a scimitar fell. A dishie threw a rag in dismay at the end of the shift jokingly and it landed on the knife handle and dragged it down. Probably the most gruesome kitchen scene I’ve ever seen.
Same dishie cut himself in the pit (not his fault) and threw the knife. It landed point down in the kitchen manager’s foot. He was out for like 6 months lol.
Actually I’m changing my answer to dishwashers.
Iankalou
Here’s a story from about 30 years ago.
15 year old me. My first day working which was at a Elks Lodge.
One of the cooks took a ticket stabbed and put it a sanitation bucket. It was a 5 gallon bucket with a couple towels in it.
Chef was working grill and stuck his hand in the bucket to grab a towel and the ticket stabber went right through his hand.
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The box grater demands a blood sacrifice every so often. It’s just a rite of passage at this point.
Any work bench. Some of those edges can be really damn sharp…
Ya I do NOT masturbate with these anymore.
Corner of the counter
The big fucken table mounted can openers are the bane of my existence.
star piping tips have given me a very bad day!
The round hand held pizza cutters. Ours are sharpened weekly and if you are holding a pizza still while cutting it and barely tap your finger on the blade? Ugggghhh. The index finger on my left hand has so many scars.
Also those scoops also suck in the dish cause you WILL spray your face with water when rinsing them.
On of my most visible scars is from the edge of a 5 gallon pail – I was taking a lid off and somehow I smashed my knuckle on the edge of the pail and tore off most of the skin. Fucking sucked.
The mandolin is your closest ally and worst enemy. It will mark you regardless….
Edit* Also the edges of hotel pans…. especially new ones..
Getting got by the serrated edge of a fresh food wrap/foil box sucks ass
I’ve cut the hell out of a finger on a peeler.
Veg peeler. Open cans and their lids. Serrated cutter on plastic wrap. Low protruding door hinges on lowboys
Hotel pan edges
Ticket rail
Steel scrubby, if you know you know.
Rubber spatula, great when in the right hands. In the hands of a line cook, they leave welts and memories.
Corrugated metal lids for to go/catering. Sliced many fingertips
Literally I have a blood blister right now from a god damn scoop.
Amazed that none of you mentioned the food wrap, sitting there all pretty and clean in its box. Food wrap is just waiting to slice you with its nasty dirty blade.
If you ever get a steel brush bristle in your body, as a splinter, or under a nail, know that it is some Cenobite shit.
The inside hinge of the tongs cuts my palm like a scissors every now and again. I try not to buy those tongs anymore but they always show up
Tin foil “paper” cuts run DEEP
Not a tool but this B will slice the back of your hand when you’re wiping it down.
https://preview.redd.it/n6ixkrnfwhhf1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=935d0e43c68593da0d49a6a76a2665a32eb22d48
This comment section is triggering so much ptsd I didn’t know I had.
Fucking mother fucking god damn piece of shit satans wrap cutters. Evil sons of bitches
My personal favorite experience is picking up a hot pan out of the oven with a towel that wasn’t as dry as I thought it was… it’s betrayal with a side of panic because the heat transfer is delayed by just long enough that you’ve already committed to picking it up so you have to scramble for a place to put the entire tray back down without spilling the contents while your hand cooks
Magnetic knife strip on a line. Had a dude slice himself to the bone on his forearm when a scimitar fell. A dishie threw a rag in dismay at the end of the shift jokingly and it landed on the knife handle and dragged it down. Probably the most gruesome kitchen scene I’ve ever seen.
Same dishie cut himself in the pit (not his fault) and threw the knife. It landed point down in the kitchen manager’s foot. He was out for like 6 months lol.
Actually I’m changing my answer to dishwashers.
Here’s a story from about 30 years ago.
15 year old me. My first day working which was at a Elks Lodge.
One of the cooks took a ticket stabbed and put it a sanitation bucket. It was a 5 gallon bucket with a couple towels in it.
Chef was working grill and stuck his hand in the bucket to grab a towel and the ticket stabber went right through his hand.
It was pretty wild.