This post brought to you by my pinky
By the power of liquid bandage, hopefully I can get by playing power chords normally enough at band practice
Oof I'm so sorry this happened to you comrade. I absolutely refuse to use a mandolin because of this. I am not a Michelin star chef I cook in my home kitchen, nothing must be that fine and if it must then I get it as close as I can and toss the thick stuff in the freezer to turn into soup for this reason.
I know exactly zero people who own and use their mandolin that haven't cut themselves on them. It should be illegal to sell them without a chainmail glove or at least a functional hand guard. Literally the most dangerous tool in anyones kitchen.
they're pretty good for making tofu bacon and coleslaw - the one I got from ikea has a plastic doohickey that holds the food in place of your hand so it doesn't get chopped off which I'm surprised others dont have.
ive heard tales of restaurant kitchens not using them just because they seep to be dangerous as fuck
If you actually need a mandoline in your facility, it needs to be the big kind where it's like physically impossible to cut yourself, like they have at the deli.
one of my middle fingers is flatter than the other because of these things. i second this message
Knuckle hold anything you're mandolining and when it gets to nub use a knife. Honestly I'd just use a knife over a mandolin for anything. A crazy sharp chef's knife and a bread knife are all the cutting tools you should need. Maybe a paring knife, I just hold my chef knife by the blade for pricice stuff.
Unless it's the 8-stringed kind
But fr, you can get those cut resistant gloves for cheap - there's no reason not to get/wear some
No, even wear gloves when playing the musical variety of mandolin. Those low gauge strings can gnarlify your fingers if you're not careful
i knew bill monroe was a fucker but this really takes the cake /s
I sliced my palm really hard cause I kept my fingers out of that equation long ago. Neither are great and knuckling what you're cutting is ideal but doesn't work good near the nub. My advice is to just finish that nub with a knife.
Yeah, took a piece of my thumb off earlier this year and learned a new word that I don't like - avulsion.
didn't see the comm name at first; between the title, the mention of power chords, and this comment, I was equal parts horrified and mystified at how someone could slice off part of their finger just by playing the mandolin
(hope you and your thumb are doing okay now!)
I shall refer to you as Stumpy in all future correspondence.
Those things are sharp, and I’m glad it isn’t worse than what it was. Mandolin injuries can get pretty nasty, pretty easy.
The corgi has the word "Stubbs" in her full name so can we go with that?
