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12-30-2001, 10:36 PM
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Well...this thread makes my injury sound petty, and unimportant, but when I fist started out (im still in my first year) I had bad posture with my guiding hand, and I lost half of my fingernail (and some useful flesh with it) on my forefinger. I now have no scar, and it didnt even hurt (the knife was sharp) but Now I have good posture, and I take alot more time doing things with a sharp knife. I fell lucky never to have witnessed anything like this, but the most numb skull thing I ever heard of is this guy putting a lime (whole) in a deepfryer for fun...needless to say there was a huge "pop"and hot grease everywhere. The most boneheaded thing about it was that he didnt even lose his job! |
12-30-2001, 11:18 PM
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I tell this to new kids over and over. Kitchen accidents happen because you're not paying attention. Yes, I've hurt myself in the past and will do so in the future. but it will be because I'm not paying attention. Accidents in the kitchen make me mad because they can easily be prevented. PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!!!!!
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12-31-2001, 01:52 AM
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Paying attention is so important. Our executive steward used to have a poster, "China Doesn't Break, It Gets Broken". Watch what you're doing and be careful, the kitchen is a potentially hazardous enviornment. |
12-31-2001, 06:22 AM
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Suzanne you are hard on your self 
It's the same in every profession.
I remember how proudly I was walking in the court district the first time my car was burnt by oponents in a case!! 
I will put in my office this motto of the China that doesn't break but get's broken. It's very wise.
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01-05-2002, 02:16 PM
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I myself have had numerous stiches and burns, mostly minor.
The two most memorable are the one time I got 3rd degree burns from the fryer. I was wiping down around them when the heat lamp slipped into it. I almost caught it before it hit, but when it did my hand was close enough that the grease splashed on it. When I wiped it of quickly on my apron the skin and a good amount of flesh came with.
The other is another oven story. I had several prime rib in my ovens. When I checked them most were about half done, with the exception of the ones in the oven that wasn't lit. I turned off the dial and called out for a lighter to do the pilot. Most ovens have a safety that turns off the gas when the pilot is out so I didn't think twice. When I lit it a ball of flame engulfed me. The cook standing to the side off me said it went out past me about 4 ft. I luckily managed to put my arm up over my face and recieved only a couple of minor burns on my face, but I lost my lashes, eye brows, and a good amout of my hair.   |
01-05-2002, 07:07 PM
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one time, i was opening up some cases of fries, and was taking the flaps off the boxes with a bread knife, and I accidentally put my thumb under the blade, and just about cut it off. took 13 stitches to fix it, six inside to sew the tendons together, and seven outside. Actually it took nineteen, if you count the fact that I went ot the hospital at 6 am , and the plastic sugreon wouldn't come in until ten, so the on call doc, had to close the wound so I could come back. Also, I have atleast five permanent scars from knife wounds on the first three fingers of my left hand..
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01-05-2002, 11:31 PM
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I tend to think of the little various knife cuts and burns on chefs' hands as the equivalent of blisters and calluses (spelling?) on the hands of professional guitarists. All for love and money, or at least one of the two!
I have only been working for four or so months now, the worst thing I have seen so far wasn't kitchen caused. The grill guy has had a bandaid on his face for weeks, from a fight with his drunk brother in law! The bandage has slowly gotten smaller and smaller over time.
I almost sliced myself this week, the knife amazingly only went through the first layer of skin so it didn't bleed, but it had to be removed. Phew! I was impatient to finish working my way through slicing up a 5 pound bag of dates. 
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01-06-2002, 04:06 AM
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Hey,
I'm really enjoying visualising all this blood everywhere :-)
As a boy I used to hang around at my fathers 'working mans cafe' The working man seemed to have time for lunch in those days. Dad had a long slicing knife that he used most of the time. He would slice a sandwich diagonally and developed the habit of laying his free hand on the top of the blade as he sliced the sandwich. You guessed it! One day the knife was the wrong way up. There was quite a lot of blood and some swearing. He still has the scar.
Stay safe
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