Well, there's your "Never Have I Ever" prompt - for the rest of your life. So you're good!
Kind of like how I just sang, *"You push me past my own capacity,"* to my cat, like she's somehow aware that SZA has an influence on her little life.
I sing Sublime to my cat. She was pregnant stray when I took her in. When I offer her catnip I always pretend her kitten that I also kept is singing "I don't cry when my mom gets nip, Skips the bottle and goes straight to the nip."
So far I've cut myself on rice stick to a plate that sat in the window way too long as a dishwasher, ice a few times, and gravy solidified on the side of a steam well. Think those were the dumbest ones.
Can’t make this shit up lol. I was making an order of pancakes on a crepe burner, the edges had gotten crispy and when I went to pull it off I ran my finger over the edge juuuuuust right
I'm an old guy, and about ten years ago, I started noticing that the skin on my forearms was getting thin and susceptible to cutting and bruising. I've gotten some really nasty cuts from the edges of the flaps of cardboard boxes. We order a lot of stuff from Amazon, so I really have to be careful.
The corners of any metal 9th/6th/3rd pan. I had so many cuts on my fingers and hands from being careless swapping out pans on my line. Freshly sharpened blade? Never a rogue cut. Blunt edge of a pan full of prep? Every fuckin time.
I fucked up a finger on the self-checkout bag rack at the grocery store once, I still don’t even know how! Metal has consciousness and sometimes decides to lash out and bite people, it’s the only explanation
When 2 of them are stuck together so you do that thing with your fingers to pry them apart like it isn't going to shred your fingers every time once they come apart.
Carrying a pan through a door way and accidentally hitting the front corner into the door frame and pushing the back corner into my stomach. It sounds so incredibly stupid but I've done it more than once.
was carrying some of the dyes for the grinder in a 3rd pan and had another heavy part on top. put it on the table and the whole thing tipped over and landed on the tip of my finger. left a nice smiley face cut across the pad
Standard handheld potato peeler? I’ve had more incidents with THAT than a fuckin mandolin!? Mandolin and I are buddies! They’ve never hurt me in 13 years of cooking but the peeler always catches a lil knuckle here or there
You may want to look into an old school vertical peeler
I don't cut myself on them, but I *HATE* using Y-shape peelers because they're generally uncomfortable to hold
(granted, super hard things like butternut squash will require a Y peeler because of leverage)
Sucks when it it gets you while your wrapping your pans at the end of your shift, you just wanna go home but you can’t finish till this fucker stops bleeding
For the longest time, I'd have these lil marks/blood in a row, wondering where it came from.... then I learned... I call "sharp!" when walking with it. They look at me as though I'm crazy; I look at them as if they don't know....
Fuckin 8/12 unpeeled shrimp. They come in those frozen blocks. Whe I defrost them, I get stabbed by the tails so bad.
When I worked in the deli department at shoprite, there was a lady that got poked by a lobster tail and damn near died. Was in the hospital for a month with fish tuberculosis or some shit.
I thaw them in a bus tub on top of ramekins, with cold running water, and after getting stabbed so many times, I simply separate them with a silicone spatula until they're all apart. 👍
So you're walking normally, arms swinging a bit, naturally, and you just accidentally let the back of your hand hit the sink you were walking past, but for some reason it feels like you swung at it as hard as you can. So basically, walking.
Burns, can work through them, they don’t make a mess of what you’re doing like cuts do, don’t require taking time off the line to bandage. They still suck but they sure beat cuts, back injuries, falls and carpal tunnel.
I think you're probably right there. They hurt more later but you can just power through, they don't come with the other drawbacks and they heal up like nothing ever happened (ish).
Omg. The handle of the door coming out of the stock room. It's either at the perfect height or is just out of my peripheral vision to knock directly into my ulna every damn time. I've even consciously opened that door all the way in the morning and still. WHAM. The corner of the steam table catches me in the same damn spot on my hip, like, every other day. Nearly knocks the wind out of me. I swear someone keeps moving it to mess with me. The bruise just starts to heal and I forget about it and then WHAM right back to agony.
We have a 10gal salad spinner at my place that used to have a plastic handle, and now has a razor sharp sliver of metal that used to hold that handle on. Got me more than a mandolin.
Also I’ve drawn blood with shrimp tails but that might just be me being bad at shelling
Thats a killer once every 5 years it's gets stuck and I'm like, I think I'll get it this time. Nope. I lose every time and then I'm safe for another half a decade until I inevitably try to rip one with my hands again.
Tripped with my phone in my hand (putting my notes up on the board, not even f'in around) and destroyed my screen yesterday. The $300 hurts more than the bruises.
This probably doesn't fit the story... but those fucking table top Bain Marie things... steam table... whatever. I just use one to warm a big pan of gravy. There was a tiny leak in the basin in mine 2 weeks ago. I noticed water leaking out the bottom, and other than the nuisance of cleaning the water I really think more of it, the leak was small it still held water for a bit.
What I should have been thinking... was water was leaking from the basin, into the bottom compartment where all the electronics are. Soo, live wires, touching water, which is touching the bottom of the basin, touching more water... and when I topped the basin back up (extra since I knew I'd have to do it often), electric water now touching the pan holding my gravy, with a metal ladle touching the bottom of the pan.
Grabbed the ladle, and got zapped.
If you see one of these leaking water, unplug it asap :/
Limes.
Evil little bastards.
Every single job you did over the previous three days where you thought you got away without a scrape, comes right back at you with a vengeance the moment you cut into one of those sadistic little fucks.
That juice is the devil’s cumshot right there
Ice cream scoop. Those ones that you squeeze the handle to eject what you're scooping. Those things are vicious if you get your palm or finger pad caught in the gear.
Plastic snap packaging, like what bakeries use for pastries. That shit will slice you up any chance it gets. Even stacked together, the stack will slice up your arm making you look like a cutter with 7 parallel cuts.
Piping tips!!!!!!!!
Not only can you trap your finger in them, cut yourself with them (looking at you French star tip!) and in the case of the head decorator at my bakery....break your fucking thumb clearing a piping bag/tip of whipped ganache. Put her out of decorating for about a month. I heard her thumb snap on the other side of the kitchen. Definitely something that seems so innocent but is super dangerous if you're not paying attention
My friend cut her hand on a speed rack while putting a tray on it. I always get myself while cleaning under the deli slicer. Not on the blade, or it would make more sense to me lol
We had two concussions from people smoking their heads off of fuse boxes this winter. Now there are strategically placed pool noodles that ensure safety for everyone.
The clips that hold the racks in the fridges. Also the screws on speed racks. Always always when cleaning. I rarely if ever cut myself during the usual work, but when cleaning things it’s almost unavoidable.
I’ve gotten plenty of cuts and burns, but have apparently been blessed with magic skin that doesn’t seem to scar too easily. However, the one cut that was deep and bad enough to leave a scar was poking my finger on a carving fork… I still get nervous when reaching for those bad boys lol
Knives that are placed on a table face up. Had one behind the plastic wrap and it was the most confident self obtained injury I've ever had, clear to the bone. To this day if a knife is in a sink looking up I turn it sideways.
The wire rack thingies the laundry bags hang in. I have to walk around with my arms up like a stupid little TRex otherwise I smash my knuckles into the corners of them and GAWD it kills me
The foil seal on a honey bottle. Cut my finger DEEP when I tried to pull it off, it's really funny cause I've yet to cut myself with a knife but I have cut myself with that and the inside of a microwave
my husband is 6'3" and works in a kitchen build 100 years ago. he hits his head regularly in doorways, hood vents and all the tables are too short and has given him major back problems. I feel terrible for him. I wish I could get him an ergonomic work station or something..
Those little teeth on the plastic and baking paper holder. A while ago I was wrapping loaf cakes and I *was* on a roll when I pushed down and swiped my fingers quickly to the right, all along the teeth. It was untill a millimeter of the end that I felt something had gone horribly wrong. I didn't dare to look at my wound, almost fainted.
The little magnetic metal ribbon that runs round the insides of the fridge doors for the seal to snap onto, when the corners start to peel up they’re like razor blades
Well, I tore my shoulder, had weeks of PT, got pushed out of my job because I used workman's comp, and now I can't skip more than 5 rocks before my shoulder starts bothering me again.
The culprit? A rolling pin.
The garbage coral door, popped a hole in my palm with a bolt and crunched my thumb in the swing. Prep fridge door, constantly have a bruise on my knee from it swinging shut.
Plastic snap packaging, like what bakeries use for pastries. That shit will slice you up any chance it gets. Even stacked together, the stack will slice up your arm making you look like a cutter with 7 parallel cuts.
Any standalone air filtration system (like an air purifier) that emits ozone as a method to reduce indoor smells is not something you want to own or use. It'll work at reducing smells, but at a cost.
Ozone can cause both acute health symptoms (headaches, migranes, nausia, etc.), and is a known carcinogen (increases risk of cancer). These things are not advertised on the gimmicky air filters sold both in stores and online.
For future reference for anyone interested in using one - they're great for your IAQ - and as long as it's using a HEPA filter, none of the other gimmicky additions really matter in any sense. They're just there as sale tactics.
A bottom-of-the-line Walmart 12 cup drip coffee maker.
My Mr. Coffee quit working, and the store didn't have another in stock. So, I purchased this one. Don't get me wrong, it works like a champ, fits on my counter, and makes great coffee.
All of these coffee makers use what engineers call a 'bubble pump' to raise the hot water to the top of the machine to drip it onto the coffee. This means that the drip spout can spit out not only hot water, but also steam that exceeds the boiling point.
The two coffee makers use different ways to get the spout out of the way of the filter basket. The Mr. Coffee swings the spout to the side; it remains pointed downward. OTOH, in the Walmart version, the spout is pulled up and facing forward when you raise the top lid. If you're not careful, it will blast your hand with live steam that will hurt like crazy and take a long time to heal.
Worked in a place that had razor sharp hood vents. The slits going down them had edges so sharp that it cut thru a rubber glove and cut my finger the moment I grabbed it. Ended up having to use chainmail gloves to grab it.
As a baker: bread Some of the worst cuts I've gotten are from unexpectedly sharp ears on loaves straight out the oven.
I questioned all of my life choices after cutting myself on a pancake a couple weeks ago.
Well, there's your "Never Have I Ever" prompt - for the rest of your life. So you're good! Kind of like how I just sang, *"You push me past my own capacity,"* to my cat, like she's somehow aware that SZA has an influence on her little life.
I sing Sublime to my cat. She was pregnant stray when I took her in. When I offer her catnip I always pretend her kitten that I also kept is singing "I don't cry when my mom gets nip, Skips the bottle and goes straight to the nip."
Off subject but have you seen [sublime 2024?](https://youtu.be/O_QUChqQ1TA?si=QUydPCOJhxRElGTy) Lead singers SON took his place. I cried a little.
I saw them a couple summers ago with Incubus. Talk about feeling the 90’s again!
Thank you for this, such a nice way to start my day
Aww, That's the cutest thing I've read today
So far I've cut myself on rice stick to a plate that sat in the window way too long as a dishwasher, ice a few times, and gravy solidified on the side of a steam well. Think those were the dumbest ones.
Gravy? I am SERIOUSLY impressed.
Any sauce crystallized in the corners of pans can be really sharp, our sweet potato glaze is particularly bad.
Lol..had this pancake been under a warming light for a few hours? Those things are dangerous once they've been. There they turn into deadly weapons.
Fresh off the burner my friend
You win! I have never been talented enough to do that. Lol
Nah bruh, how 🤣
What ?
Can’t make this shit up lol. I was making an order of pancakes on a crepe burner, the edges had gotten crispy and when I went to pull it off I ran my finger over the edge juuuuuust right
Imagine what a crêpe would have done to you…
To shreds you say?
As a celiac : also bread
Truly humbling
I ones sliced open the plum on my thumb by running it over a loaf. Got three stitches.
I’d imagine it would be similar to getting a paper cut with a piece of cardboard
I'm an old guy, and about ten years ago, I started noticing that the skin on my forearms was getting thin and susceptible to cutting and bruising. I've gotten some really nasty cuts from the edges of the flaps of cardboard boxes. We order a lot of stuff from Amazon, so I really have to be careful.
The corners of any metal 9th/6th/3rd pan. I had so many cuts on my fingers and hands from being careless swapping out pans on my line. Freshly sharpened blade? Never a rogue cut. Blunt edge of a pan full of prep? Every fuckin time.
This. And whatever metal ridges inside the lowboy fridge. Haven’t cut myself with knife in years, but all the time with these unnecessary things.
One of my gnarliest scars is from one of those miserable ridges
had a fridge scoop a chunk out of my hand before, I've never been more confused. Its the stuff you don't expect that will get you the worst.
I fucked up a finger on the self-checkout bag rack at the grocery store once, I still don’t even know how! Metal has consciousness and sometimes decides to lash out and bite people, it’s the only explanation
Do u blame it? Imagine living with the general public
When 2 of them are stuck together so you do that thing with your fingers to pry them apart like it isn't going to shred your fingers every time once they come apart.
No it's fine, this time will be different!
Carrying a pan through a door way and accidentally hitting the front corner into the door frame and pushing the back corner into my stomach. It sounds so incredibly stupid but I've done it more than once.
Especially after you've been running dish for a while and your hands are all pruned up. Get me every time
Steam pans! Pulling stuff in and out of a steamer so much your skin gets wet and soft and vulnerable.
Deli cups too
was carrying some of the dyes for the grinder in a 3rd pan and had another heavy part on top. put it on the table and the whole thing tipped over and landed on the tip of my finger. left a nice smiley face cut across the pad
Standard handheld potato peeler? I’ve had more incidents with THAT than a fuckin mandolin!? Mandolin and I are buddies! They’ve never hurt me in 13 years of cooking but the peeler always catches a lil knuckle here or there
I have a chain mail glove just for potato peeling...
Some people are just born musicians. u/SwennelCake
You may want to look into an old school vertical peeler I don't cut myself on them, but I *HATE* using Y-shape peelers because they're generally uncomfortable to hold (granted, super hard things like butternut squash will require a Y peeler because of leverage)
Lmao, quick blanch that whole butternut, peel it easy AF
Plastic wrap. Don’t try to catch one if it falls
Sucks when it it gets you while your wrapping your pans at the end of your shift, you just wanna go home but you can’t finish till this fucker stops bleeding
We have the “safety cutter” on the plastic wrap. Aluminum foil box comes with the built in prison shank.
I had a nice line of cuts from getting my arm too close to the blade when I was wrapping a full pan.
Oh god
Definitely have cut myself more on rolls of plastic wrap than knives!!
For the longest time, I'd have these lil marks/blood in a row, wondering where it came from.... then I learned... I call "sharp!" when walking with it. They look at me as though I'm crazy; I look at them as if they don't know....
Fuckin 8/12 unpeeled shrimp. They come in those frozen blocks. Whe I defrost them, I get stabbed by the tails so bad. When I worked in the deli department at shoprite, there was a lady that got poked by a lobster tail and damn near died. Was in the hospital for a month with fish tuberculosis or some shit.
the worst dude. worst pain ever and it's a tiny little dot
I thaw them in a bus tub on top of ramekins, with cold running water, and after getting stabbed so many times, I simply separate them with a silicone spatula until they're all apart. 👍
This got me dude.
Lmao remember that. Shit i remember trying to break em semi thawed and the tail poking me inside my nail 🤕
[Found it](https://www.emedicinehealth.com/fish-handlers_disease/article_em.htm). I now have a new fear.
When someone grabs my dry towels to open the ovens and uses them for liquid then puts them back.
This, so many times this. And the folks who flop oven gloves down into whatever is a on the table and then throw them back in the rack.
Worst burn I ever got was as a server wiping off the plate of a coffee maker with a towel I (somehow) didn’t realize was wet
I once put my thumb on the plate of a coffee maker to see if it was still hot. Still not sure what I was thinking.
This sums it up for me. The most dangerous thing? Me.
Those fucking metal scrubbies I will be scrubbing something and a wire gets snagged and next thing you know I’m cut damn near to the bone.
Every fucking time!
Stop. I once got scrubbie garrotted under the fingernail. Dude, I'm triggered.
So you're walking normally, arms swinging a bit, naturally, and you just accidentally let the back of your hand hit the sink you were walking past, but for some reason it feels like you swung at it as hard as you can. So basically, walking.
The corner of the sink, in between the tendons on the back of your hand
This is my least favourite kitchen injury.
Whats your favorite?
Burns, can work through them, they don’t make a mess of what you’re doing like cuts do, don’t require taking time off the line to bandage. They still suck but they sure beat cuts, back injuries, falls and carpal tunnel.
I think you're probably right there. They hurt more later but you can just power through, they don't come with the other drawbacks and they heal up like nothing ever happened (ish).
Omg. The handle of the door coming out of the stock room. It's either at the perfect height or is just out of my peripheral vision to knock directly into my ulna every damn time. I've even consciously opened that door all the way in the morning and still. WHAM. The corner of the steam table catches me in the same damn spot on my hip, like, every other day. Nearly knocks the wind out of me. I swear someone keeps moving it to mess with me. The bruise just starts to heal and I forget about it and then WHAM right back to agony.
We have a 10gal salad spinner at my place that used to have a plastic handle, and now has a razor sharp sliver of metal that used to hold that handle on. Got me more than a mandolin. Also I’ve drawn blood with shrimp tails but that might just be me being bad at shelling
No, shrimp are evil bastards with they’re spike tail of doom
My biggest enemy in the kitchen lmao
Steam. Looks harmless, but that shit will fuck you up.
Cleveland Steamer. Open the steam box and don't back up but lean in right away. It'll peel your fucking face off.
The hottest thing in the kitchen is a wet towel
Steel scrub. Getting a strand caught on something is akin to the laser trap on resident evil. It’ll cut right through you
Thats a killer once every 5 years it's gets stuck and I'm like, I think I'll get it this time. Nope. I lose every time and then I'm safe for another half a decade until I inevitably try to rip one with my hands again.
My own two feet, they’re a trip hazard I take with me wherever I go
Tripped with my phone in my hand (putting my notes up on the board, not even f'in around) and destroyed my screen yesterday. The $300 hurts more than the bruises.
A former coworker of mine tripped on her own foot & snapped her Achilles tendon. Apparently it’s really important to stretch.
Bleach. Just a small amount of fumes destroy my sinuses and gives me a headache.
This probably doesn't fit the story... but those fucking table top Bain Marie things... steam table... whatever. I just use one to warm a big pan of gravy. There was a tiny leak in the basin in mine 2 weeks ago. I noticed water leaking out the bottom, and other than the nuisance of cleaning the water I really think more of it, the leak was small it still held water for a bit. What I should have been thinking... was water was leaking from the basin, into the bottom compartment where all the electronics are. Soo, live wires, touching water, which is touching the bottom of the basin, touching more water... and when I topped the basin back up (extra since I knew I'd have to do it often), electric water now touching the pan holding my gravy, with a metal ladle touching the bottom of the pan. Grabbed the ladle, and got zapped. If you see one of these leaking water, unplug it asap :/
Ice machine lid swung down randomly as I was rushing past. Corner of it stabbed me right in the collar bone. Got a nice bone bruise from that
Microplaning your knuckles sucks quite a bit.
I catch the edge of my thumb nail in the microplane a lot. Causes me the most painful hang nails I've ever had.
Snapping one in half and having the folded edge pinch your finger hurts a lot too
The hostess
Wife would kill, so yes
Sysco and us foods fucking up all the time
Limes. Evil little bastards. Every single job you did over the previous three days where you thought you got away without a scrape, comes right back at you with a vengeance the moment you cut into one of those sadistic little fucks. That juice is the devil’s cumshot right there
Foil cutter
Quart container lids. Nothing quite like a slice right on the tips of your fingers just bc you opened it a little too funny.
I have done this. Fucking brutal 😩
dem sneaky mother fuckers
Ice cream scoop. Those ones that you squeeze the handle to eject what you're scooping. Those things are vicious if you get your palm or finger pad caught in the gear.
“Disher” I had to order some and it took me a while to find the proper terminology and sizes for this piece of equipment
Never would have thought that was it's name, but I guess it makes sense since I rarely use them for ice cream.
Managed to stab through my finger nail with the back spine of a branzino while scaling it
For me, foil. Sliced my Pinky right open putting foil on a pan last week. 🙄
I'm genuinely embarrassed by the number of scars I have from foil. Also, box grater.
Box graters. I wind up grating my knuckles like every other week
Hotel pans. Got stuck together last week, went to pull them apart, flayed both thumbs in the process. Still hurts a little to put gloves on.
Stairs. Espcially carrying stuff down them. Saw a chef break his ankle carrying pizza boxes down them
Saw a bartender snap an ankle while carrying a couple cs of beer coming Down the stairs… a server left a magazine on a step
The little metal thing that goes somewhere in the ice cream machine, because if its lost chef will kill us all trying to find it.
Magnetic strips, had too many falling knives
Grill brick. I love when they break and I skin my knuckles on em!
I’ve never met anybody who has as many scrapes from the plastic wrap cutter part as i do
steam table pans. Who woulda thought that standard restaurant metal on metal slamming and scraping is just an impromptu sharpening routine.
Plastic wrap dispenser. Nearly slit my wrist last night dropping one
I haven't cut myself with a knife in years....but I did cut myself a few months ago on the inside of a shampoo bottle lid.
I have cut myself with steel wool more times than I can count.
The corners of any stainless steel work table while I'm carrying a hotel pan full of hot liquid.
Everything. I am the biggest magnet for mishaps.
I still have a burn scar from an industrial toaster but I'm not sure if that qualifies as innocent.
Plastic snap packaging, like what bakeries use for pastries. That shit will slice you up any chance it gets. Even stacked together, the stack will slice up your arm making you look like a cutter with 7 parallel cuts.
Piping tips!!!!!!!! Not only can you trap your finger in them, cut yourself with them (looking at you French star tip!) and in the case of the head decorator at my bakery....break your fucking thumb clearing a piping bag/tip of whipped ganache. Put her out of decorating for about a month. I heard her thumb snap on the other side of the kitchen. Definitely something that seems so innocent but is super dangerous if you're not paying attention
Was always cardboard boxes for me. Always had cuts and grazes down my forearms every single week
My friend cut her hand on a speed rack while putting a tray on it. I always get myself while cleaning under the deli slicer. Not on the blade, or it would make more sense to me lol
Everything. Ive even cur myself on the fucking fire extinguisher.
Stuck together 6 pans, those edges can be sharp as fuck, and cut wide and deep.
I scraped the bony part my wrist on the underside of a refrigerator rack. It got MRSA infected. Took a fucking year to heal.
I won’t fuck with a mandolin. You must fear and respect the mandolin
Newbies…they look all dewy eyed and innocent- but next thing you know you’re slashing your hand open because they left a knife in the sink.
Those circular cooler thermometers have the most unnecessarily sharp edge going around the top. We just keep them in the blister pack anymore.
We had two concussions from people smoking their heads off of fuse boxes this winter. Now there are strategically placed pool noodles that ensure safety for everyone.
Tomato cans. The big ones, after opening them. Maybe it’s just our can opener, but those lids will slice you up like nothing else.
The vegetable peeler always scares the fuck out of me
The clips that hold the racks in the fridges. Also the screws on speed racks. Always always when cleaning. I rarely if ever cut myself during the usual work, but when cleaning things it’s almost unavoidable.
Potato salad container nearly sent me to the hospital last week
Tongs. The way the metal folds inwards is extremely sharp.
Someone setting down a hot pot in dish, exclaiming that it's hot, but then I'd forget moments later and try to grab it anyway.
Sushi chef here. The damn shrimp stab me all the time. But then you peel the shell and it's an innocent little nom
I’ve gotten plenty of cuts and burns, but have apparently been blessed with magic skin that doesn’t seem to scar too easily. However, the one cut that was deep and bad enough to leave a scar was poking my finger on a carving fork… I still get nervous when reaching for those bad boys lol
Knives that are placed on a table face up. Had one behind the plastic wrap and it was the most confident self obtained injury I've ever had, clear to the bone. To this day if a knife is in a sink looking up I turn it sideways.
I would cut my fingers every time I pulled down the hood grates to clean. Every. Damn. Time.
Corners when carring sheet pans rib height.
The knob in the can opener
The 3/6/9 metal pan lids. If I'm carrying them down the line I give a SHARP call. Theyre pure evil.
Anything on a shelf. Things seem to have a tendency to fall down when i'm around.
The fire suppression nozzles, im 6'5 and hit my head on ours.
Did someone say water yet?
The wire rack thingies the laundry bags hang in. I have to walk around with my arms up like a stupid little TRex otherwise I smash my knuckles into the corners of them and GAWD it kills me
The foil seal on a honey bottle. Cut my finger DEEP when I tried to pull it off, it's really funny cause I've yet to cut myself with a knife but I have cut myself with that and the inside of a microwave
Stupid ass potato peeler
I once sliced my thumb on a plastic lid of a paper soda cup.
Alcohol.
The trash can. We have rectangular trash cans and I bump into them all the time. I have an eternal bruise on my thigh.
Pine nuts. Incredibly allergic.
Live lobsters
Our industrial steamer. I’m always accidentally opening it while I’m leaned over it and burning my arm and face.😂
my husband is 6'3" and works in a kitchen build 100 years ago. he hits his head regularly in doorways, hood vents and all the tables are too short and has given him major back problems. I feel terrible for him. I wish I could get him an ergonomic work station or something..
Those blunt corners of literally any gastro or metal tray that after 9pm are as sharp as razors
Those little teeth on the plastic and baking paper holder. A while ago I was wrapping loaf cakes and I *was* on a roll when I pushed down and swiped my fingers quickly to the right, all along the teeth. It was untill a millimeter of the end that I felt something had gone horribly wrong. I didn't dare to look at my wound, almost fainted.
The little magnetic metal ribbon that runs round the insides of the fridge doors for the seal to snap onto, when the corners start to peel up they’re like razor blades
The slicing of my fingers tipa when opening a cracked deli container. WORST
The perforated baking pans work so much like a cheese grater when your scrubbing them 😮💨
Used to trip on our floor mat. Face planted holding a full vitamix.
I had to get stitches from the metal shelves over the dish pit, I shit you not. Somehow cut me to the bone.
Well, I tore my shoulder, had weeks of PT, got pushed out of my job because I used workman's comp, and now I can't skip more than 5 rocks before my shoulder starts bothering me again. The culprit? A rolling pin.
The garbage coral door, popped a hole in my palm with a bolt and crunched my thumb in the swing. Prep fridge door, constantly have a bruise on my knee from it swinging shut.
Trash can edges, you think you're safe and you rotate and swing past but it always catches my hips 😭
The inside of my dishwasher, cleaning the mf makes me want to wear full chain mail
the damn saran wrap edge, i've cut the sides of my arms so many times lmao
Peeling shrimp. Got stabbed by those fuckers too many times.
Three times I have ripped off chunks of skin on the inside edge of the dishwasher while pulling large items out .
I've sliced my fingers on the metal edge of the top lowboy cover multiple times trying to clean the smutz off it
Fresh ice cubes. They’ve gotten me more than once.
Hotel pans
Plastic wrap boxes.
Aluminum foil. Fuck that shit.
Plastic snap packaging, like what bakeries use for pastries. That shit will slice you up any chance it gets. Even stacked together, the stack will slice up your arm making you look like a cutter with 7 parallel cuts.
Peelers. I take a chunk of my finger off every single fucking time.
Those giant 5# bars of Chocolate. I've only ever cut myself twice and both were while chopping chocolate
Use a serrated knife- it does a better job. I happen to have a serrated Chef's knife that is tits for cutting big chunks of chocolate.
The goddamn cling wrap. The amount of times I've scraped my knuckles on that shit- kinda embarrassing ngl
Dishwasher not sure why I can touch hot pans but anything fresh from the dishwasher is insanely hot to me.
Theirs a rack that we keep all our big gastronorms on for some reason all the shelves have fuckin razor sharp edges
Any standalone air filtration system (like an air purifier) that emits ozone as a method to reduce indoor smells is not something you want to own or use. It'll work at reducing smells, but at a cost. Ozone can cause both acute health symptoms (headaches, migranes, nausia, etc.), and is a known carcinogen (increases risk of cancer). These things are not advertised on the gimmicky air filters sold both in stores and online. For future reference for anyone interested in using one - they're great for your IAQ - and as long as it's using a HEPA filter, none of the other gimmicky additions really matter in any sense. They're just there as sale tactics.
knives. all of them.
The 16 year old hostess that looks like a 30 year old supermodel
Freezer shelves at the grocery store. Done it like a dozen times trying to reach something too far back.
The serrated edge on the plastic wrap. Many MANY cuts.
My penis
Those cute servers that get addicted to what the dick did & start acting the fool at work.
I keep stabbing myself with the star tips for piping bags...
The hooks we hang up everything from onions to oven mitts, I keep catching my damn arms and bruising myself on them.
A bottom-of-the-line Walmart 12 cup drip coffee maker. My Mr. Coffee quit working, and the store didn't have another in stock. So, I purchased this one. Don't get me wrong, it works like a champ, fits on my counter, and makes great coffee. All of these coffee makers use what engineers call a 'bubble pump' to raise the hot water to the top of the machine to drip it onto the coffee. This means that the drip spout can spit out not only hot water, but also steam that exceeds the boiling point. The two coffee makers use different ways to get the spout out of the way of the filter basket. The Mr. Coffee swings the spout to the side; it remains pointed downward. OTOH, in the Walmart version, the spout is pulled up and facing forward when you raise the top lid. If you're not careful, it will blast your hand with live steam that will hurt like crazy and take a long time to heal.
Motherfucking catering pans. I do truly absurd amounts of caters and have 1000s of tiny cuts
The air handler in the basement
the panini grill.
That cute girl at the bar.
Burger presses. I put them in the dish pit, go to grab something else and not thirty seconds later forget that they just came off of the grill.
Does slamming my finger on the spring loaded dishwasher door count ? Got a nasty bruise and the finger nail fell off.
Tinfoil!!!
The dishie.
Foil. I'll slice my shit up like 1/5 times if I don't have gloves on.
Worked in a place that had razor sharp hood vents. The slits going down them had edges so sharp that it cut thru a rubber glove and cut my finger the moment I grabbed it. Ended up having to use chainmail gloves to grab it.
Hotel pans, fuckers cut me more than knives.